musings from a snowstorm....

Phil Weber presented at the meeting tonight .  The topic: UI Design Guidelines.  It was an entertaining talk about bad UI design and what makes for a good UI.  He showed some cool demos using VB5, VB6, and VB.NET.  Very cool stuff. A couple of Phil’s...

If you're in the Portland, Oregon, area... come on by the . NET user group meeting tonight .  See you there!

The cost of an operating system is just a drop in the bucket compared to all the additional costs involved with computing.  Just ask ABB.... IBM lands $1.1 billion IT services deal IBM Global Services will take responsibility for the operation and...

Cool!  An updated roadmap .  Lots more said about what's in Whidbey, but the details about Orcas are still a ways out.  Heh, can't divulge too much too soon, now....

A few weeks ago I had one of those days... I hosed my development environment, so that every time I attempted to create a new ASP.NET web application in VS.NET 2003, I would get the following error message:   The Web server reported the following error...

I ran across the book, " Presenting to Win" by Weissman .  It's very well written and should be read by anyone who has to give presentations.

I'm knocking off one of my "todo's": looking at WSE 2.0.  but before I do, I'm reviewing WSE 1.0.  Here's a well-written overview of WSE 1.0 at the MSDN site. One of the many cool things about WSE 2.0 is that it supports sending messages over TCP/IP...

finally.  after 9 nights away in new orleans, i'm home.  on the flight i played with OneNote 2003 .  it's part of microsoft office 2003, and it was the first time i'd used it.  it's very impressive.  after using it for an hour i found so many cool features...

new book by simon guest: microsoft .net and j2ee interoperability toolkit available in september.   it's possible to do interop through a number of ways, including (but not a complete list) interop through remoting (.net program to java...

if you’re in the boise, idaho, area this thursday evening (7/24), drop by the boise .net user group meeting.  they meet the 3rd thursday of every month.  rob collins is presenting this month .  i'll be presenting next month. oh, yeh, one more thing...

eric gunnerson discusses the intricacies of web services and remoting by way of creating a remote control for a media player, and then applies these principles in putting the application to work on his own pocket pc.  read about it here: http://msdn...

i took the biztalk server certification exam on monday afternoon as a lark.  no studying at all. heh.  can’t believe i passed it.  it’s been a couple of years since i did anything significant with bts.  on each question i went with the first answer...

hello.  i’m a .net developer evangelist with the microsoft pacific northwest district . welcome to my blog. i’m currently in new Orleans at a technical briefing for microsofties.  for the most part it’s been very cool (the conference, not the weather...