First, a simple one: you can drag a file or folder from Explorer to the CMD window. The path to that file/folder will appear as text which you can use in a command. Pretty spiffy. Second, short-cuts to the Run command in the start menu. 1...

Ray Ozzie has an interesting perspective on Longhorn storage: moving to a common store may have the same benefits of using common protocols on the Internet. I hope so!

I'm finally caught up with all of the stuff I wanted to blog. On a sad note, an interesting question: Is the Internet Dying?

A great article about the technology and politics behind broadband. Our friend Professor Lessig just wrote a related article for Wired . Both are good reads.

Those of you lucky enough to attend the PDC keynote this year saw the cool glass effects we're working on for Longhorn. Well, you don't have to wait for Longhorn to get glass on your desktop. You can do it with IE right now! http://w3future.com...

I like using templates for sites. Sadly, there won't be support in ASP.NET until the next release. Thankfully Paul Sheriff has a work around: Simulating include Files with ASP.NET Server Controls

How many books do you have that you haven't touched in the last [insert double-digit number] months? Exactly! These clever kids have implemented an idea I was toying with last year: a distributed library. The name for their project: Distributed...

I grew up in Iowa [close to Okoboji ]. I've done my share of knocking my home state, how I'd never live there, etc. Well it turns out that Fast Company disagrees. It turns out that Des Moines, IA [the state capitol] is the best place to work...

In one part of his Artima interviews, Anders Hejlsberg discusses the notion of simplexity. I've started using this word a lot as I find it applies to a great deal of my work. Amar , my esteemed GPM, pointed me to another article by Joel Spolsky on 'The...

Part 5 of the interview I posted earlier. This one talks "about DLL hell and interface contracts, strong names, and the importance of interoperability." http://www.artima.com/intv/interop.html

I use IE at work. It has a nasty habit of forwarding searchs to MSN search, which also pops up ads on my screen. What I want: if it's going to do autosearch, at least use Google . The solution: customize IE with some registry hacks provided...