Dan Fernandez's Blog

File this under the coolest use of C# ever... Clint Rutkas , rock star, built a homemade LED Disco Dance Floor (as seen on Digg ) and recently he wrote a "how-to" article on Coding4Fun !! I seriously want to build one of these for my office in my "free...

The world for hobbyist and enthusiast developers just got a little more interesting today with the announcement that Microsoft's getting into robotics. Robotics Studio is a development tool designed to provide a uniform and consistent way to program robots...

It’s about time I added a contribution to the blogosphere lexicon so you too can seem l33t at the next blogger meet up and deride your fellow attendees who haven’t heard of the “Afghani Banker” syndrome as being too “analog”. Best of all, the Afghani...

I know I’m way late on this one, but it’s a great one, and that’s the announcement of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals . One of the coolest things about Microsoft is seeing all the interesting projects that are coming and actually...

If you haven't heard about this story, you should take a minute out of your day to read Evan Guttman's true story of a stolen Motorola Sidekick . entertain yourself. The story already has 3,500+ Diggs on Digg.com. Justice 2.0 - Shaming people into...

July 2004 - The Seattle Air Conditioning Lie - Another summer, another big increase in the number of blog hits for people searching on "Seattle Air Conditioning". Yes, with high's in the 80's , Seattle is beautiful outdoors, but muggy as hell indoors...

[I'm so behind on blogging] If you didn't hear ( eWeek , StreetInsider , ITBusinessNet , WebProNews ) Microsoft and CareerBuilder recently announced a new partnership aimed at helping Visual Studio developers find jobs through a new portal with links...

Chris Treadaway, the Express business manager joins the blogosphere. Actually Chris has been blogging for a while but he's been a lurker. Chris, who has the best email at Microsoft, Christ :) Chris also asks the question thats on everyone's mind.....

This is very cool, the RSS Team blog has a mod of the original Visual Studio RSS Screensaver ( webcast here ) that shows how to use the Windows Vista RSS Platform API by modding the built-in Express Starter Kit. The how-to article shows just how easy...