Kirk Evans Blog

I had the pleasure of taking a course from McGhee Productivity Solutions called "Managing Objectives, Actions, & Plans Using Microsoft Outlook." This class was one of the best classes I have ever taken. Seriously. I gotta admit, I was skeptical...

This might have been titled "12 things I don't miss about C++ now that I have C# and .NET 2.0".

There needs to be a traveling businessman's equivalent of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" jokes, something like "You are working too much when..." The first entry ought to be "You are working too much when your 4 year old knows how to spell...

Jon Flanders quote of the night... "Indigo is just another [BizTalk] adapter." Kent Tegels followed up with "Actually, it's just another SQL Server Service Broker endpoint."

There was this guy walking around on stilts tonight at the Universal Party at TechEd 005 that was pretty buff (6-pack abs and a scowl to boot). So, Christian Weyer walks up to him... (Christian is 6'5"") That didn't faze the guy so much. So Christian...

I threw together a quick HTML page to show some of the pics that I am taking here at TechEd 2005 in Orlando . Lots of them! http://xmlinsiders.net/images/teched2005

I worked the Pavillion and the cabanas today, and the Pavillion was really interesting. Here I was showing the VB My namespace in front of customers, with Jay Roxe behind me watching. Talk about pressure to perform. That guy is just plain smart. A customer...

Holy Smokes. That has to be the best way to describe TechEd 2005. The people I have talked to already would take an entire blog roll alone. Some of my personal highlights from the trip over the past 18 hours. So many old friends that I don't get to...

I am ashamed. I admit that there is a function of WSE that I didn't fully comprehend. OK, I openly admit that there are many functions of WSE I don't comprehend, but this is a pretty basic one that I read, digested, then embarassingly dismissed. WSE...