I must be crazy. I've left the safety and warmth of http://weblogs.asp.net to move out on my own. No longer will my posts be displayed on that central page, ready to be viewed by the masses. Nope, I'm now on my own, but using .Text as my blog engine...

During the general meeting , Cory Isakson and I will be talking about state management for web sites. After the general meeting the MCAD SIG will meet. See you there!

Last month I though I saw a cool geek shirt with the slogan “got msil”. Turns out that the shirt didn't say that. But now David Scott has created a real version of the shirt . Be the first geek in your user group to get one! Very cool...

Heh. Someone out there needs to know what to do in a snowstorm. How do I know? Well, weblogs.asp.net now has a cool stats section that shows referrers (thanks Scott!). Someone did a Yahoo! search for “what to do in a snowstorm” which returned...

Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software gave a talk last night at the Portland Area Dot Net User Group (PADNUG). He made an interesting comment, with the net of: If you’re going to fail, you want to fail fast. That way you can figure out what went...

I upgraded my sorry Pocket PC phone's operating system to Pocket PC 2003 and a new radio stack. Bingo! Home run! Connectivity issues are a thing of the past. I can finally use IM on the thing. And it synch’s with Exchange automatically every...

Quite a bit. Otherwise, why would a grown man, driving to work in his car, have tears coming down his face while listening to names being read by children? September 11, 2003. Two years later, and it still seems just like it was yesterday.

See you there!

For using the .NET Framework.... for System Administrators for Developers

So how did you prepare to take a certification test? Did you use the MS Press study guides? Exam Cram series? Other non-study-guide books? Hands-on experience? Sample exams? Newsgroups? MSDN? GotDotNet? Quickstarts? WWW.ASP.NET ? Other? Did you buddy...

I’m sitting through day 1 of a 2-day planning session, with about 100 people in attendance.  If I see another presenter get up and say the words “I know you can’t read this slide…” I believe I’ll scream.  (Everyone in the Chicago area, keep your ears...

After using the PPC phone for a while, I've decided not to use it to reply to e-mail.  Connectivity is the main issue.  Sometimes the thing syncs up without a problem.  Sometimes I can't connect at all.  What's most frustrating is when it quickly and...

This one has me stumped.  I never have been able to connect to my IM account from my PPC phone.  I “tap here to sign in” and the phone connects to something, but I never can get logged in.  Big bummer.  Anyone able to get it working?  Any secrets?

I just finished rebuilding my laptop hard drive with Windows Server 2003.  It's going to be fun to play with the new IIS6 features.  I'll keep you posted on how things go.

I work with the Boise .NET Developers User Group (NETDUG -- gotta luv that name).  They’ve started an MCAD SIG, so I work the study guide labs along with them.  I wanted to do some cross-language inheritance from VB (parent) to C# (child), just to see...

Not trying to start any language religious debates.  Just trying to inform. ;)   This article  describes VB.NET, C++ .NET, C#, and J#, providing the language features, programmer constituency, unique language features, and unique environmental features...

Cool.  There's a site for people who will be blogging at the PDC.