I tend to keep this blog more professional, but since diabetes has affected so many members of my family, I tend to pipe up for the cause.  Also, hey, skinny white kid from my neck of the woods getting tattoos, piercings and a mohawk?  C'mon...

The PhizzPop Design Challenge, hosted by Microsoft, is back for its second year, and we're joining forces with The Chicago Convergence to deliver a top design competition you won't want to miss. PhizzPop is a national interactive design competition with...

On September 29, 2008, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Team System Development Edition will be combined with the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition in Visual Studio Team System 2010.  Microsoft recognized that many developers write...

Hey there all my techie friends!  In honor of PDC 2008, we have just made publicly available the FIRST CTP for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.  It is a Virtual PC image and there are some activation requirements which are well...

MSDN Unleashed Join us at our MSDN Unleashed events for the latest tips, tools and technical information you need to build powerful applications and engaging user experiences. We'll show you how SQL Server 2008 delivers new development capabilities, including...

Professional Patterns on the Job You're smart. You deliver. What more could your company want from you?  Why don’t they come to you for the big technical decisions? Why won’t they listen to your proposals? It seems like everyone has an...

I just ran across a great article in Dr Dobb's Portal written by Stephen Rylander, a peer of mine at CDW in the Northwestern suburbs of Chicago.  In this article, Stephen shares his experiences around adopting TFS, the good, the bad, and the ugly...

The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready? Prepare yourself for a demanding future. Attend the MSDN Developer Conference. Experience Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform Create applications that seamlessly bridge...

Technorati Tags: Channel 9 , LINQ , DSL , Domain Specific Languages , .NET Micro Frameowrk , Concurrent Execution , .NET Framework , PowerShell Channel 9 is just chock full of goodness.  I saw a few videos today that I really wanted to share and...

Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (RC1) This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer...

On September 29, 2008, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Team System Development Edition will be combined with the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition in Visual Studio Team System 2010.  Microsoft recognized that many developers write...

Live From PDC You may have heard about PDC October 27 th – 30 th in Los Angeles. Microsoft is going to make major announcements around: The Software + Services vision for computing Upcoming Cloud Computing efforts The next version of Windows For...

* SPECIAL EDITION * - Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Web-Cast Find out how utilizing Application Lifecycle Management in your environment gives you consistent predictable developments processes, increased quality in service delivery, cost savings...

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Overview Recommended Audiences: Project Managers, Solution Architects, Software Developers, Developers, Architects In this web-cast, we expose you to many of the new features in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System...

Cloud Camp on 10/21/08 CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At...

  There is some great stuff happening at IndyNDA this month. And of course, Paul Hacker has an awesome topic for the TFS Sig as well. Here is the TFS Sig info in case that is all you are interested in:  MOSS and TFS 2008 VSTS with TFS: Microsoft...

Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release This is a major release that has been under development for a long time.  It should be released in the next month or so, check it out!  There should be even more awesome features by the time it releases...