Seems the LA-Vegas autonomous robot race ended today with no one claiming the $1 million prize. Only two of the entries were able to make it to the seven mile mark of the roughly one hundred and fifty mile course. The favored CMU “Red team”...

Last month I had a chance to visit the Baltimore SQL Server Users Group and talk to them about Yukon for Developers. In April, Jeremy Kadlec of Edgewood Solutions will be talking to them about DTS in Yukon. This is the third in their series of Yukon presentations...

I've established a personal blog at Casa dé Hambone in order to decrease the signal to noise ratio here on blogs.msdn.com and weblogs.asp.net, thereby keeping my personal hobbies and interests out of the aggregated feed. I'll continue to post...

Microsoft has published another paper from the IT group describing some of their best practices and experiences. The download page links to a paper and a PowerPoint presentation. From the Lessons Learned section of the paper: Microsoft IT's effort...

There's going to be lots of .NET developer content at this 1 day free security summit at the end of April. Coming to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. This will also be the New Zealand launch of MSDN Connection, Microsoft's new peer based recognition...

I've just started using Lookout and I swear I'm saving about an hour a day by not having to search for emails and files any more. It's life changing you gotta try it too. Now I see a name on a mailing list or somewhere that seems familiar, I can just...

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This post covers the scenarios where you are building web-service gateway over legacy applications. In my previous post we covered the basic implementation for making services idempotent. We talked about the notion of persistent log that keeps track of...

If you haven't heard from Harry's blog , Pat Helland (a colleague in my team) is now blogging ! Way to go Pat! (..and way to go Harry for finally convincing Pat to start!). Sorry to hear about that coach seat from Sydney...

Yes, I admit it: It's been a long time since I blogged. Part of the reason for this has been the creation of a new interoperability set of materials that I've been working 24/7 on - the other part of the reason has to do with travel. What I have been...

I'm probably the last person to blog about this, but in case you didn't know, Whidbey will officially be Visual Studio 2005. Date Slip I wanted to take a second to respond to Frans Bouma and other bloggers who are “hooked“ on Whidbey and...

Update (1/3/06): Find the latest info on RightSideUp on my main blog from now on. A .NET application that automatically rotates images in a folder using EXIF data stored in the image by some cameras. There's no longer a need to go through each image...