Many thanks to the nearly 500 people who attended my webcast with Telerik yesterday. Todd is working on getting the code for me to post. (Since some of the demo was for an unreleased product he needs to try to find a .dll that we can include. You...

The next in the 3 rd Party AJAX Web Cast Series is Thursday March 29 th ASP.NET AJAX the Codeless Way: Telerik AJAX Manager in Action Ever dreamed about a shortcut to building ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications? One that eliminates the need for...

If you work in technology then your probably know that Addison Wesley publishes great books. InfoPath is a very interesting technology, and one that I think is a little under exposed and documented. This book is a definitive source for InfoPath...

One of the cool things about my job is that I get to make friends all over the world. I met Ruchir when he emailed me as a student looking for inexpensive hosting. Well, Ruchir had allot of trouble finding what he was looking for and has remembered...

PHP Quebec was a blast, apart from having 3 flights canceled due to fog trying to get there, and having to rent a car and drive home due to the snow. The bad news was that the drive took about 16 hours. The good news was that it only snowed for the...

Dr. Dobb’s is one of the longest standing developer magazines. Read issues on line here. http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj0407/index.php

Course: Applied ASP.NET AJAX When: April 23-25, 2007 Where: Microsoft Technology Center, Waltham MA Cost: Special Microsoft Rate - $2,095 Register: 781.749.9238 or bill@pluralsight.com Bill Williams ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions expose...

So here I sit in an airport again. LaGuardia this time in NYC (Ajax World ended yesterday) Every flight I’ve been scheduled on in the last 2 weeks has been either canceled or delayed. (A total of 7 cancelations.) Judging by the announcements...

Today we announced that Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax alliance . The OpenAjax alliance is a group of vendors, open source projects and companies using AJAX that are focused on developing common AJAX standards and ensuring interoperability across...

I happened to get into a conversation at Ajax World with the CTO of a medium sized company with a pretty large infrastructure that is considering moving from Java to .NET After the days events went up the block from the hotel to Morton's. The BEST...

It’s conference season. Last week I was at the PHP Quebec conference. http://conf.phpquebec.com/ This week ……… I’m in New York City this week speaking at Ajax World. Just being here and staying at the...

Rory and (Robert) Scoble are at war. In my time at Microsoft I’ve gotten to know both of them. I “lovingly” tell you they’re both egomaniacs (as am I!) Rory and I have have found much to argue about. I think because we are...

The next in the 3 rd Party AJAX Web Cast Series is Thursday March 29 th ASP.NET AJAX the Codeless Way: Telerik AJAX Manager in Action Ever dreamed about a shortcut to building ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications? One that eliminates the need for...

Borland has always been cool. Check this out http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07 A free 5 day virtual conference. See you there !

I’ve never benn a big fan of virtualization, Id rather just have twice as much hardware But since I’ll be spending most of the time between now and July on the road, I thought I’d revisit VirtualPC again, especially now that the 2007...

Vista was driving me nuts and I posted some of my frustrations at the end of last week. The response was interesting. There were a couple ignorant slashdotters who chimed in with the used sore looser crap. Mostly though, I got reminded how smart...

Check it out. The folks from Borland Dev Tools, now called CodeGear are gearing up to release Delphi for PHP. A RAD IDE for PHP. I’ve been chatting with Michael Swindell, The VP of Products at CodeGear and I’ll be kicking the tires on...

I found this tidbit on Steve Riley’s blog. Windows Vista vs. hotels At many TechEds this year I've presented information about the new TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista. One of the important advances is its automatic performance tuning . With...

This really puzzled me. How can MY OWN pictures file be access denied. (Especially since in an admin on the box.) I asked my peers who quickly suggested that it was a parental controls thing because I’d put something naughty in my pictures...

I wanna like Windows Vista, really I do. But, like a loud child, I have to WORK at liking it. After finally turning off all the redundant Security Dialogs…. – Do you wanna do this ? – Are you SURE you wanna do this ?...

I’ve been involved in the sport of Kickboxing for over 30 years. Up until this January I owned a Gym and now am a (somewhat) silent partner in one. This guy, Jason “The Trooper” Bonacorsi is one of the fighters that I’ve trained fort about 10 years...

The Internet Information Services 6.0 Migration Tool is a command line tool that automates several of the steps needed to move a Web application from IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0 or IIS 6.0 to a clean installation of Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and Windows...

My friends over at MaximumASP.net (one of my AWESOME hosting partners) is gearing up to support Longhorn server and IIS 7. As Bruce Lee said, “You can’t learn to swim standing on the beach”. So MaximumASP.net is getting their IIS...

I’m starting a new Live-From-Redmond webcast series on developing AJAX applications using 3 rd party libraries. The first one is TODAY – MARCH 8 th at 09:00(PST) / 12:00 (NOON) EST Learn about the kinds of things that you can do with 3 rd party...

A couple of years ago I metthe guys from Softricity ( http://www.softricity.com/ ) who had somne really interestering virtualization technolohy. Well, the business guys at Microsoft thought they were interesting too, so we bought thecompany. Now...