If you haven't seen it yet, Scott has updated his list of tools that every developer should look at. This is by far the most comprehensive list of useful utilities I've seen thus far. I looked through my utilities I install, and I only found one that som… more »

Well, now that I'm back from Tech Ed, it's time to look back through my notes and start writing down my thoughts on what I did and what I saw. I'm starting that right now, but I wanted to get some things out there first. While the technical content at T… more »

I got a chance to talk with the GotDotNet team about the future of Workspaces as well as the whole GotDotNet platform. And I got a free shirt. I think I mentioned that before! It was surprising to see how apologetic they were for the software, even tho… more »

I got the chance to listen to the return of the Gillmor Gang today, and it was pretty good. The guest was Adam Curry, and he did an OK job of keeping up with the intellect of the Gang. I did notice one thing though - either I'm getting smarter or this ep… more »

I finally made the move to start developing in Virtual PC rather than on my main machine. It was a rather smooth transition, actually. But there are a few quirks that I found. First, I had a Windows 2003 Server already set up with a bunch of tools on it,… more »

I spent some time a while ago putting together my Tech Ed schedule. I think I have it done. I'm not sticking to one track, and will be jumping around quite a bit. My schedule also has all of the BOF sessions that I'm interested in. I won't make it to all… more »

I had a conversion with a Brian last week about our build server for Tourney Logic, and he off-handedly asked why we don't buy a development server for all of our projects at NuSoft. I got to thinking about that, and it really is a good idea. Every time… more »

I've been on LinkedIn for a while now, and I just noticed I am connected to 210,000 people out of 2,500,000. I only have 19 connections of my own, but through those 19, I have access to 210,000.  Only just recently did it occur to me to add other blogger… more »

I have a nice headset that I really like. Actually I have two. Both work great, but both work only with my cell phone, and I've been using Skype a lot more lately than I have in the past. I used to use a set of headphones and the built-in microphone on m… more »

Here's a pretty comprehensive set of instructions on hardening Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0. Now that I've recently installed Windows 2003 and have it running on my home network (semi-exposed), this is important to me. It looks like it'll take a whil… more »