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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 ...

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 spoke at Microsoft TechReady6, an internal Microsoft ...

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 ...

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. Here's a gallery of some nice ...

If you're new to this, each week I post some snippets of particularly interesting (read: beautiful, ugly, clever, obscene) source and the project it came from. This started from a belief that reading source is as important (or more so) as writing it. We read computer books to become better programmers, but unless you're reading books like ...

My ninety-seventh podcast is up. It this episode I talk to the ADOGuy, Shawn Wildermuth, about ADO.NET Data Services codenamed ''Astoria.'' We discuss Astoria and how it *not* just exposing your database to the Internet. We delved into REST and how Astoria and Silverlight are a good mix for the ...

It's live and you can give it a try now! Ten minutes ago Shawn and Scott released the hounds. If you'd like to step through .NET Framework Source code, here's what you need to do. Install this QFE. Note, if you're on 64-bit Windows, read the description as there is a ...

Seriously, 1728 pages? We couldn't drop a page or two? Nope. In keeping with our strategy that a person who buys our book should be able to beat off attackers with it, we're keeping it big and phat. Coming in a few weeks, it's Professional ASP.NET 3.5 and it's heavy as heck. And, it's ...

My ninety-sixth podcast is up. This episode was recorded at CodeMash in Ohio last week. Dustin Campbell is a lead developer at DevExpress working on CodeRush and ''Refactor!'' He's also a gifted teacher and gave a great session on F# at CodeMash so I know I wanted to get him on the show. He's ...

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: ...