So last week, I was flying back from a vacation to New York City and had a mildly humorous experience. While readying my laptop, shoes, pocket change and WMDs prior to walking through the "scanning gate" at LaGuardia, I happened to notice the name of...

Thanks again to the Michiana Area .NET Users Group (MADNUG) for hosting me as a presenter this past Tuesday. I enjoyed the visit and the opportunity to share some nuggets of wisdom about WSE 2.0 and even rant a little bit about Chicago mass transit problems...

The speaker panel at CNUG's Day of .NET. Look, I know it's a corny joke, but you chuckled. Seriously, I heard you. You can't deny it. Anyway, check out the details for this Saturday, April 30, full-day event covering 4 different tracks of .NET seminars...

I had a great time presenting at the Appleton event last week - everyone had great questions and we also had some good dialogue around n-tier application design and web service management. Of course, with all the questions, I faced a few that I could...

At the Madison MSDN Event yesterday, after I demonstrated SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services , one fellow with a particularly bright red shirt ;-) asked about creating authorization using a custom user store instead of Windows authentication in SQL Server...

Hitachi has created a humorous animation that explains in easy to understand terms, with music and dancing of course, how their new technology is going to allow for an exponential increase in the size of storage media - http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research...

And it's all so that I can present to .NET developers (except for a little bit of personal travel, of course). Even though I can't make it to every city each month for MSDN Events, I like to make my rounds to the user groups to see friendly faces and...

Those of you who attended the Appleton, WI MSDN Event this past Tuesday will recall the brief discussion at the end of the day about interest in a .NET user group in the area. Since there was a group in the past, and by the show of hands there was clearly...

Here's a quick one: I never previously saw a whole lot of value in the "blackout" and "whiteout" functions in Powerpoint. For those of you not familiar, pressing "B" or "W" while in presentation mode in Powerpoint will turn the screen black or white...