Martha Annette was born to us yesterday at 3:47PM. Mom and baby are doing fine. Many thanks to all of you for your thoughts/prayers. Here's a picture of Martha Ann .

I spoke to an Army Ranger on Tuesday, who has developed his own line of *extreme coffee* called Ranger Coffee: http://www.rangercoffee.com/ Just struck me as a natural fit to developers, who also tend to go long hours on very little sleep :-) ...

Kudos to Tim Pickens , rocket scientist extraordinaire, and my brother in law, for yet another article, this time in Air and Space Smithsonian . http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/In_Thrust_We_Trust.php?page=1 Aside from being in the Guiness...

A group of DEs showed up at the Greenville, SC .NET User Group last night. We had a great time answering questions, and the legendary Keith Brown did a security talk. To top (or maybe bottom) it all off, we did an improv show for them that we called ...

Many thanks to Asli Bilgin, DE extraordinaire, for pulling almost all of this list together. · silverlight · Telerik RadControls – 3d virtual rooms using control based framework · DLR & IronPython · Silverlight developer reference ...

Come on out to the geek dinner at Max and Ermas in Dunwoody . Come chat with other technical folks about the latest technologies, games, or whatever. Hope to see you there!

Microsoft MVP and Charlotte Developers Guild UG leader Bill Jones is up to his usual community magic, hosting the 2007 Charlotte Code Camp at CPCC in Charlotte. Carolinas Developer Evangelist Brian Hitney is helping coordinate a . NET University there...

I was a bit surprised to see this in MacWorld. I'll offer zero opinion, as I think the article and it's presence in MacWorld somewhat take care of that for me. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/30/daizovi/index.php

I got a fascinating email from Ian Griffiths this morning. It's always fun for me to read email from people that are considerably smarter than I. Even if the bulk of the email is indecypherable, I can still usually pick up a tidbit somewhere toward the...