Phew, that break of mine seems to have gone by pretty quickly! It was a nice break , but I have been struggling with the flu for the whole time. It's been pretty horrible - I feel like I have coughed up a lung. Sorry Jason - I think you got your bug from...

As promised, here are the answers to the pop quiz from my last post : 1. According to Chris, what does PAG stand for? Prescriptive Architectural Guidelines 2. What does PAG really stand for? Prescriptive Architectural Guidance Extra...

After reading in several blogs about David Allen and his book/process Getting Things Done , I decided to give it a try. The set-up has been significant, and I'm not done by any stretch, but I've finished my inbox, and for the first time since the day...

Today I read Keith Short's why Whitehorse is not using UML? In it he describes why the Whitehorse designers use DSL's (Domain Specific Languages) rather than UML. Whitehorse includes the Distributed Service Designer, the Logical Infrastructure Designer...

Chris mentions looking at SellsBrothers.com on Alexa . So, I had to look at a few sites... weblogs.asp.net (great site -- you should... oh, you've heard of it) Traffic Rank for asp.net: 2 , 8 1 5 ( 114) Speed: Fast (73% of sites are slower...

I got the following question on email: Question: Which one of these three loops is the most efficient? How can I prove the answer? I've listed the source code below. The three loops are: Foreach over an int array Simple for over...

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I'm working the weekend building up some samples that are a little easier to re-distribute. Update: Thanks to Stephane and Jeff I now have two pretty cool InfoPath/Email scenarios to go with the messaging, orchestration, rules, web-services and sharepoint...

Although this has been in the works for a while, the time is finally right for me to share the news. As of tomorrow, I’ll work for Microsoft . Since I was recently inspired by Tim Bray’s entry describing his decision to work for Sun, I thought...

Slashdot has a post on the front page indicating that Microsoft's made the VC 2K3 compiler available for free download here . I gotta say, I'm impressed at the VC team for releasing it, it's pretty amazing IMHO that they'd let this out free of charge...

“Any idea how many bugs may still be in the product?” A question I've been asked and heard others get asked on many occasions. It drives me nuts. Not because it's a dumb question, as we'd all certainly love to have the answer to it. It's just...

I arrived in Australia this morning after a grueling 14 hour flight from San Francisco. I say grueling, to be honest it wasn't that bad as I managed to sleep through 11 hours of it. Add that to the two hours I got on the way down from Seattle and I think...