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I'm at blog.microsoft-j.net now. Something of a personal ego-trip. Visit me there ...

Well, if anyone is still reading this, I'm quite surprised. I've not written in here for quite some time. There's been a lot going on, mostly personal that I won't go into here. Also, to be honest, I've had a hard time thinking of stuff that hasn't already...

So ... I spent the better part of this evening working on 2 presentations that I am delivering for the first time next week. Of course, I usually try to find existing PPT decks and then customize them from there ... why reinvent the wheel, right? Usually...

It's funny ... today is, of course, 9/11 ... and the five year anniversary of the most horrific attack on the US since Pearl Harbor. Yet, as I look at my blog and it's history, it is also the day (only a year later) that I left Austin and signed off the...

Commerce Starter Kit 2.0 Beta 2 has been unleashed on the world! You can check it out at http://www.commercestarterkit.org . And, thanks to Mark from UltimaHosts, you can play with a live demo at http://www.cskdev.com . What is it? It's on Open...

Here's the content from the security events last week. Dallas Security Summit : Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Lafayette TechSouth: Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Secure Application Development Principles and Best Practices

The VSTS Launch is coming to Houston! This is pretty exciting stuff ... I've really been blown away by Team System and am very, very excited about what it will bring to the development process. The Team System Launch is on Tuesday, April 25 at the...

The VSTS Launch is coming to Houston! This is pretty exciting stuff ... I've really been blown away by Team System and am very, very excited about what it will bring to the development process. The Team System Launch is on Tuesday, April 25 at the...

I don't know ... maybe it is. What am I talking about? The Health Monitoring features of ASP.NET 2.0. It's one of the new services APIs that have been added into the ASP.NET runtime -- like membership, profiles, roles, etc -- and it's just there waiting to be used and/or extended. ...

How does a buffer overrun work? What can I do to protect myself from SQL Injection? How do hackers exploit vulnerabilities? Please join Microsoft and Compuware for a comprehensive look at the answers to these questions. We will provide guidance on...

Always, always there is the quest for more speed from my computer. I admit it ... I'm impatient and I like to have a fast computer. What geek doesn't? So ... with that in mind, I went down the path of my yearly system upgrade. It's not as radical as...

Well, finally got to do the events in Baton Rouge. After all the weather excitement recently, it was really good to get down there for these events. Momentum, as always did a great job hosting! By popular request, here's the materials from the event...

Well, Rita came through. For a time, it looked like it was going to hit home here in Houston. We were lucky and dodged the bullet. Folks in East Texas and Southwest Louisiana ... not so lucky. Yes, I evacuated. Didn't want to take any chances. However...

For those of you that have been following, we released a new version of KatrinaSafe on Friday. We accomplished quite a bit on the web site from an architectural perspective that involved a great deal of refactoring, but little new functionality. The Smart...

If you are going to the PDC, there will be a Birds of a Feather session that will talk about how technology can be used to respond to a disaster like Katrina. It's called "Katrina Relief through technology" and will be on Monday, September 12 at 7:00...

It's an exciting time here right now. We just ran our preliminary matching code and found that we have 9 nearly perfect matches ... First Name, Last Name, and DOB. That's 9 folks found that were lost. I'm sorry ... but I'm about to cry here. This...

Another day here in Austin with a lot of progress on KatrinaSafe.com. Right now, I'm waiting on test to approve the next push of the Smart Client application. We've added the functionality to allow case workers to match evacuees with the inquiries .....

It's another early night here in the Austin MTC. We got out at 1 AM last night ... tonight we should be out of here by midnight, I think. Development's been shut down since 9:30 so that everyone can take a break. It's been a very busy day. What we...

Yet another busy day here at KatrinaSafe Central. We had a bug bash on the Smart Client this morning before deployment and are fixing the last couple of isses with one of the web services. We're also busy adding more functionality into the smart client...

Well, we're close to calling it a night here at the Austin MTC. Everyone is tired and honestly, some nerves are beginning to wear thin. That happens when you have a bunch of type A personalities in a high stress situation crowded into a small room all...

We were here until 4 AM last night and I got back in at about 10 AM this morning. We've done triage on what we need to do for the SmartClient and we're getting stuff done. Everything is going well, if a bit hectic. I also just found out that we'll be...

It's now 3:00 AM on Monday morning. We've been here since around 9:30 AM yesterday morning. We just did another push to production on the web site. We had some challenges ... and, this time, we actually recorded it for posterity. However, at 3 AM in the...

We're still going strong -- though most of us are a little on the brain fried side. We're getting ready for our second push into production and a break for dinner (the project lead is absolutely insisting that we break ... which is probably a good thing...

We finally got the production roll for KatrinaSafe done at about 3:30 AM last night. Got in here to the Austin MTC as around 10 AM ... only to find that we missed some issues with the site. That'll happen when you've been coding into the wee hours of...

Every once in a while, I'm reminded what a great company Microsoft is ... and what great people I work with. This is one of those times. I'm in Austin right now and we're going live with www.katrinasafe.com right now. This is a web site that will help...