Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11

Just got a copy of the second edition of Advanced .NET Remoting by Ingo (and now also Mario Szpuszta ). I had the good fortune of squeezing my brain through it a while back (and lived!). While the talk continues, you really need to read as much of this...

Google has now added "Movie Search" to their already massive list of ways you can search for things. Just start a search with "movie:" and some criteria, and there you go. For example: movie:"King arthur" rabbit finds the best movie of all time (OK, the...

As many of you know, I'm often looking around at how "others" write their code. As such, this site is a candy store . OpenSourceCMS gathers together a large number of CMS-ish apps (classic CMS, Wikis, Blogs, Forums and more) into one testable site. The...

Wintellect has some of the smartest .NET people on the planet these days, and Jeff Prosise is definitely one of them. Thomas (yes, the Spider King) has sent me a set of training videos featuring Jeff Prosise, showing you the ins and outs (and betweens...

I didn't mention it a while back, but I recently changed Site Managers (from Christina to Chris -- we're not that imaginative when it comes to names around MSDN). Now, Chris brings our first communal effort to bear (OK, he did it all, but I'll share some...

If you don't recognize the name AnandTech , you're not a true "hardware geek". Anandtech is jam-packed full of übergeeks who live and breathe perf for their systems. They're overclocking, water-cooling, machine-modding sources of deep wisdom into these...

I remember it was going to revolutionize text parsing , or something. I love this history , it just feels so relaxing looking at it.

I was lazy today, and decided not to walk in during a beautiful sunny Redmond day, instead allowing the decongestants to soak through my head. However, I had one conference call I wanted to attend on upcoming changes to some site . While I was listening...

In our industry, we tend to mock management, calling them PHBs or worse. However, I enjoy my management chain (I pretty much have my whole time at the fish shoppe). Good management provides air support, direction without dictating, and access to great...