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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 possibly you're just a normal person. Regardless, why not join us for some Mall Food at the ...

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 of Javascript classes that you can use in any application, whether it ...

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 just a normal person. Regardless, ...

As a new Microsoft employee, I like the new-found pragmatism at the Microsoft Developer Devision, typified by projects like the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions and MVC. Certainly we all know MVC as a concept is nothing new, but it is new as a philosophy for the ASP.NET team (IMHO). Remember that ...

One month ago I asked you, Dear Reader, to participate in a survey about Screencasts in order to help me, and indirectly Microsoft, improve our screencast techniques. I got 1000 responses in just a few hours and I thank you for it! You also wrote a lot in the free form comments field with 319 of the 1000 ...

My ninety-third podcast is up. Actually it was up two weeks ago, but I was on leave, so I'm catching up. In this episode, I talk to Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann from Microsoft Research about Pex, a Dynamic Analysis and Test Generator for .NET. Subscribe: ...

Here in the US we have this professional Baseball team called the Boston Red Sox. According to Wikipedia (and known to be true) "In 1918, the team won its fifth World Series, and then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history." Stated another way, for 86 years Boston fans rooted for their ...

Hi Dear Reader, I'd like you to SOUND OFF. As you may know, part of my job at Microsoft will be creating technical screencasts, like the IIS FastCGI one and the MVC Intro. A lot of really smart people and co-workers have created a lot of screencasts and my probing is not meant to ...

I posted earlier about copying files across my new Gigabit home network. I was getting about 10 MB/s (that's MegaBytes) between two laptops and I got responses like these in the comments that shook my confidence. Here's my thoughts after each interesting comment that appeared in the previous post. ...

Since I've been working at Microsoft, I've had a chance to make some new friends. Perhaps you know them? Come to a VS2008 InstallFest - ask your local MSFT Wonk where yours is - and get a free copy of VS2008Pro. If you've got Beta 2 installed, remove it first. From TimH: ...