Today I decided to install Monad, the new command shell for Windows and I gotta say - this thing is awesome! It's pretty much the most confusing shell I've ever seen, but it combined everything I like from DOS, Bash, Amiga, and the Visual Studio "immediate...

In my last article, we talked about writing custom web controls that could render UI based on a template. Controls are able to parse properties between their opening and closing tags. These properties can set various public attributes of the control itself...

ASP.NET is, to perhaps oversimplify things, a template parser at heart. An HTTP Handler (anything that implements IHTTPHandler) can be configured to process HTTP web requests and render results for those requests back to the socket. This inferface is...

A while ago, we were all convinced that dividing our applications up into multiple tiers was the way to go. This was great because it allowed you to scale up the parts of your application that might represent a bottleneck, and have more control over what...

Recently, I took an extensive in-depth course on Indigo, Microsoft’s new platform for allowing applications to talk to each other easier. I’ve decided to write a blog on this topic, sharing what I’ve learned with others. Indigo is an attempt to...