As originally posted by my wonderful boss, Frank Arrigo , MS Australia is rolling out smart client training seminars around the major capitals, starting this month. Free!!! I've had a bugger of a flu this week, starting on Easter Saturday too of all...

Michael suggests : ...do the refactoring inline. It is WAY smoother and more productive that way I didn't mention in my previous post , but we do. If you edit a name at the definition, a smart tag appears, offering to run the Rename operation...

In 10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis , Nick Wreden over at MarketingProfs.com writes a few things that really make me wonder if he's been reading my blog. BlogJa Vu. Nick, you out there? Demonstrate your domain omniscience and tell me haven't been...

Being out sick most of the week and the prescription strength cold medication I’ve been put on had me in the mood to go through my referral logs again in search more strange googlings ! Writing Real Well Sir, you clicked on the wrong link...

I just got my blog accepted for TechEd Bloggers . TechEd 2004 is going to be way cool. If you’ve got the budget to go, you should. You’ll see the latest and greatest being showcased by Microsoft and its partners. This is part of the skills...

Given the following schema, how will your corresponding CLR types look like? As always, answer and explanation will follow… < xsd:schema targetNamespace ="http://beatsch/issue6/types" xmlns : tns ="http://beatsch/issue6/types" ...

If you're attending TechEd Europe this year, you may be interested to know that we're running a series of "birds of a feather" (BOF) sessions throughout the conference. The idea is simple - if you want to host an interactive discussion with other attendees...

Sony unveils its new “Blu-ray” laser . Say hello to 25GB per disc! The article claims 2 hours of hi-def video, but this has got to be using a really inefficient compression algorithm. It should be able to do MUCH more than that on 25 GB!

It's been well over a month since I last posted. I've been away for a few weeks on vacation and attending the Psychology of Programming Workshop in Ireland. The workshop lasted three days and was very interesting. I'm going to provide summaries of the...

I’m often asked by audiences, visitors to Microsoft and journalists to explain our position with respect to UML (e.g. VSLive! Interview ). Many people who read our views on model driven development, as described in these postings and other places...

I admit it--I watch “The Apprentice“. For those of you outside the US that don't know, it was a show where a bunch of Donald Trump-wannabes compete against one another on menial tasks to get a job working for him as a CEO of one of his companies...

Vanity License Plates Mike Hall blogs about vanity license plates around Redmond . I’ve already mentioned Bruce Oberg’s “OTTFFSS” (One Two Three...). Tom Saxton, another former Mac Word developer, still has...