I was just looking up USB Memory Sticks and was amazed at the price they're at these days. NewEgg.com has 1GB sticks for $10 and 4GB sticks for $30 . Wow. Last time I bought one of these I paid $75 for 1GB. (there's also the $13 1GB MP3 player or a 64GB...

It's true.  Believe it or not.  When you submit a bug report related to Visual Studio through https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio , they become our top priority.  They're higher priority than even our own internally submitted bugs...

Latest Update, WinDirStat (6/18/08) Found a newer and better tool!  WinDirStat is also free and shows a nice graphical chart of the types of files and folders. Update for Windows Vista I've been using Vista now for awhile and the tool below does...

My good 'ol friend Jeffrey Palermo is hosting a bigger & better party this year... the Party w Palermo: MVP Global Summit 2007 Edition He'll be giving away an XBox 360 and has sponsors such as Wrox , DeveloperExpress , JetBrains , and Telerik . Check...

I was digging around recently and came across an interesting fact... My blog gets more views per month (~150%) than Microsoft official site for my team's product, VSTS Team Developer . Cool. This is post #100 on my blogs.msdn.com blog. So I thought is...

What's better than free bits to make life better? As in life I'm refering to a developer's life in code. I was just digging around and found these golden nugets to share. The last two are non-Microsoft apps I've used for awhile. XML Notepad 2007 A little...

I was creating an app that saves URLs copied to the clipboard into an XML file. This little bit of code came in handy so I thought I'd be worth sharing. This code checks to make sure the URL is to a valid HTML page by first checking the type of request...

What's the difference between a casual friend or acquaintance and a true friend? Well there were a few e-mail chains that I've combined here. Do you have "true" friends (family doesn't count!)? A good friend will tell you what you want to hear. A true...

My Motorola H850 was lost, so I've tried three of the latest & greatest headsets, here's my review... Plantronics Discovery 640E Motorola H700 LG HBM-730 Pictures Online Price $65 @ PriceGrabber.com $66 @ PriceGrabber.com $63 @ PriceGrabber.com CNET...