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Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a spaz , dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or the ASPInsiders meeting. Quite
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I just read an interesting article where Cemaphore is creating an add-on application for Google Apps. It's an interesting concept. I haven't messed with the Office Online options yet to see if the Microsoft team has something similar. If they don't, this
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I just noticed that my RSS feed reader had a new posting from InfoWorld about Yahoo accepting a bid to be bought out by Microsoft. The URL contains the words "april" and "fools" and it would make sense as I believe they have pulled a stunt like this before.
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Dear Reader, I present to you nineteenth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." At Mix, Clint Rutkas and I were messing around writing a plugin model for one of his apps. We were prototyping and I typed up this typical-looking plugin
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 released today and you can head over to http://www.asp.net/mvc to get the new stuff. I put together four new screencasts for this release. I really feel that a well-done screencast is a great learning tool. Last month I did a survey
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Yikes, I got an email from HR today that said "Congratulations on your 6th month anniversary at Microsoft!" Has it been that long? Apparently so, although it feels like maybe three months, tops. I learned a lot about the culture in the first three weeks
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While I was up in Redmond for the week, I stopped by the " This Week on Channel 9 " show with Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller. It's a weekly show and this is the 3rd episode. I had a great time and I'm hoping they ask me back, maybe once a month. Someone
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Rory and Chris came over to the new house recently and this is what came of that visit. The video is up on10 . "In this edition of Show Us Your Home, Scott Hanselman - a guy who works out of his home office - shows us his Geek Developer Crib with Rory
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My one-hundredth podcast is up . Madness. This week I talk to Norm Judah , the CTO of Microsoft Services . We talk about running a world-wide multi-cultural organization of 16,000 consultants, building online community, and writing green software. We
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Aptana has a cool Eclipse-based IDE for writing AJAX-y websites. It's got built-in support, via plugins, for most of the major Javascript Libraries. At the core of ASP.NET's AJAX support is the Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5 ( direct download ), a collection
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One of my first projects when I started working here is an ASP.NET Wiki . ScottGu had the idea and my team had to make it happen. The Beta (finally!) launched today. A lot of work went into the development and seeding of this project. The idea is that
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More and more I find myself "skinning and themeing" my Visual Studio development environment in order to stay frosty . It's surprising how changing your theme (fonts, colors, etc.) can re-energize me when I'm having trouble with some problem or motivation.
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Thanks to Thijs Kroesbergen for the pointer to this week's source. He turned me on to a tiny Operating System written in C# called " Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) ". As the project says, why ? Because it's fun! I wrote a Tiny Virtual
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I finally got around to trying a .NET 3.5 XBAP (XAML Browser App or "WPF Browser Apps") in Firefox, and it works just as advertised. I put together an incredibly useful and powerful application consisting of a picture of me and a button. I think everyone
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Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a spaz , dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or TechReady6. Quite possibly you're
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