and one large step for me... Yup, I made it, I'm finally a blogger, I've watched the blogging activity happening around me at Microsoft with a lot of curosity, my main question being why the heck do they do it, and then today I saw the light. Earlier...

Registration for the US Dev Days 2004 is now open, and if you register before February 10, it's only $75. Coming to 32 different US cities , it's sure to be interesting and rewarding for professional developers across the country. From the site: With...

Early in September, I got a injury on my big toe while playing soccer. Well, it wasn't while playing soccer, it was practicing soccer, but those are really the same thing. Actually, to be honest, it was while coaching soccer, which still requires a fair...

My "old" boss (he hates it when I say that <g>) Andrew Clinick has started blogging . He'll be talking about VSTO 2, scripting, and other stuff. Hopefully he'll adopt dotWord and update it to VSTO 2.0 :-)

Associating Access Control Lists (ACLs) with files is the fundamental mechanism for securing file system data. Consequently, the #1 rule for securely storing data in files is to ensure the proper ACLs are on your files. Using NTFS so you can have ACLs...

It's good to see our local partners coming up with some interesting offers. Dimension Data Learning Systems have a MCSD fast track offer. Take this opportunity to learn what you need to know about the .NET development framework and prove your talent...

Welcome to my blog! This blog is a place for raves and rants about everything in general, and networking in particular. Watch this space for cool tips and tricks, code samples and other random stuff.

We're expecting our first baby in April and it's super exciting yet scary as heck all at the same time. I can't wait although quite how having a baby and starting a web log will work out I don't know. Many postings at odd times of night I guess. Oh well...

Not too long ago my team had to write up this little tidbit for some internal usage and I thought I'd share it here mainly so that goggle will help me find it later. Maybe you will find it useful as well although I am sure much of this information has...

At the risk of talking about something that many would not even know exists, we updated the Web services section of the MSDN Library today. A little background... MSDN has a number of Developer Centers (of which the Web service developer center...

This article is a nice overview and gives you a great taste of what it's like. I've shipped stuff in Windows for the last 3 versions and it was a blast (albeit a tad stressfull) I loved walking into the Windows War Room and having to fight for bugs so...

Difficult to believe that it's been over 2 years since I wrote my last Scripting Clinic on MSDN but I really miss being able to tell the world about what the heck I've been working on here at Microsoft. We're getting to a point in our product cycle that...