Have you noticed that you can almost always spot a SharePoint site when you encounter one on the web? They all seem to have the same layout, with the familiar blue menus, and the little team icon in the upper-left hand corner. It’s always bugged me that...

I know it’s usually tacky to link blog, but this is too good to pass up.  Phil Wheat posted a great tip yesterday on speeding up your boot time on Windows Vista.  Here’s the post: Catching up on posts, and saw that Bryant Likes (over at my former...

I want to extend a HUMONGUS THANK YOU to my new friends in Poland for allowing me to travel out there a few weeks ago and meet with so many wonderful people in their community.  I had a great time travelling to and speaking at 5 different cities...

Mike Azocar , Team System MVP in Houston is running a contest for people to create cool Team System gadgets.  He’s giving away an MSDN Team Suite subscription to the winner, so I’m sure there will be LOTS of submissions.  There are some rules...

There are a TON of great sessions planned for PDC this year – and the session list is now posted . Some of the sessions I’m most interested in are:   Silverlight: Developing for Mobile Devices Silverlight provides the same great capabilities on mobile...

There are a series of Deep-Dive MSDN WebCasts coming up that look to be very excellent!  Hosted by some of our communities most clever fellows and noted industry experts, we will all learn a lot about the advanced sides of Windows Communication Foundation...

If you’ve got some free time tomorrow, June 11th, you might want to check out the .NET CodeFest in Second Life/Live Meeting tomorrow afternoon.  My colleagues in Chicago Dave Bost and Larry Clarkin are hosting two sessions – one at 12PM PST and the...

Ok Silverlight fans, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is now available for download .  It comes with a whole host of updated accessories including new versions of the Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 , a new version of the DeepZoom Composer and an...