Joe Stagner - Frustrated by Design !

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 ?...

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...

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...

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...

I’ve had SO MANY inquiries as to how I reocrd the How-Do-I videos I thought I’d type up a little guide. First, I use Camtasia Studio 4 from TechSmith . I do my recordings on Windows XP, but I’ve tested a beta release of Camtasia for...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you're like me, after dinner it’s back to work. Duringthe day it’s recording videos, and phone calls most of the day. Night time is research, coding, learning, etc…. While my office is only a few minute walk from my house, I like to be in...

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...

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...

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...

The IIS team delivered an amazing product with IIS 6 but they sure haven’t rested in their laurels since then. They’ve been doing all sorts of great work, not the least of which is IIS 7. So I thougt I’d share this list of IIS...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

Check out the episode done with WPF/e HERE. And read Scott Blog pos about it HERE.

As a younger (single) guy, FoxPro helps me buy lots of big-boy toys ! In my day jobs I wrote C, C++, Assembly, Pascal, ADA, Modula2…… But nights and weekends I wrote FoxPro. It was the perfect “small business” application...