Did ArcReady Austin today, CloudCamp on Saturday.  Look for some more blog posts later this week.

With me living in Austin, I get to hear (and talk) about game development a lot.  If you don’t know, Austin is the MMORPG development capital of the world.  (To go along with the Live Music Capital thing.)  Well, there are game design graduate...

Find the details on the SharePoint Team Blog! http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

(In response to a tweet conversation between @MattBremer and @mrackley)   The question was – how do you find all the web apps on a SharePoint server, from the server itself.  I have some old code from SharePoint 2003 that did this and so I figured...

I’d missed this yesterday, but it appears that those looking to see what the next wave of Exchange looks like have to wait no longer.  The first beta of Exchange 2010 has arrive and can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

Last week on the local SharePoint “Stump the Experts” panel someone brought up the concern that .Net 3.5SP1  “Broke” their SharePoint installation.  We worked through the issue they had seen for a bit and discovered that they had also installed...

Giant Tesla coils, the Doctor Who theme, a parking lot in downtown Austin.  It’s it great when things come together like that?  (Yep, it’s the Orbital remix of the theme if you were wondering.)

You can get some more info at http://startupweekend.com/groups/metro-dfw – details are forming up, but it’s going to be a GREAT event!

If you’ve heard me talk to Small Businesses, you know that I’m a HUGE fan of Small Business Server and the different editions that it ships with.  It’s GREAT for Small companies, but it is fairly easy to grow out of – and the step up to a full enterprise...

Asus has introduced a new challenge – tell them what you want in a PC and they’ll look at the entries and build the winning design!. http://www.wepc.com/

I’ve been working with LINQToTwitter a lot and really enjoy the flexibility that LINQ gives me.  But I thought that I couldn’t use it everywhere.  Well, there’s one more place that has shown up – the Micro Framework!  http://blogs.oberon...

SharePoint Products and Technologies provide enterprise-scale capabilities that enable you to meet business-critical needs, manage content and business processes, simplify how people find and share information across boundaries and drive the right business...

Amazon is really working hard to become the first place you go to find digital content.  We all know what the Kindle is doing for eBooks, and the Amazon digital music service is my favorite today.  Well, I just found out that they’ve just jumped...

That sounds like I’m giving you a super secret link, but truth be told, it’s free for everyone after the first of this month.  So if you haven’t given it a try, or haven’t spread the capabilities around because you didn’t have enough copies of it...

One of the things that was interesting last year at Maker Faire Austin was how many students are really excited about technology, software, and development in general.  Well, that awareness is getting out as well and the DreamSpark program that was...

Architecting for the Client Tier The client (or presentation) tier of our applications is taking on an increasingly important role. Users are expecting more compelling user interfaces, but they also want more functionality from their applications. In...

If you haven’t seen the series yet, there are some great video tutorials (with code) going up at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx   As I start my upcoming “Coding outside the Box” series, I’ll be pointing to some of these for greater...

  Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow who is the Product Unit Manager for TFS, and has been working on TFS since its inception in 2002. He has plenty of experience in working with source control systems - prior to working on TFS he formed...

Our April Speaker is going to be Greg Low. He’s a Microsoft MVP from down under. Here is some information: Developers like queries that are very constrained. Users don’t. In this session, Greg will show how iFTS in SQL Server 2008 allows developers to...

One question that keeps coming up again and again is what should I look for in a SharePoint guy.  I get asked this a lot and from many different directions, but it’s a large enough topic that I’ve resisted following my rule and blogging the answer...

Just as a note, recently I've been talking to a lot of people about nonstandard interfaces.  For the next bit I'm willing to test out one of the current “nonstandard interfaces” available to us right now by dictating my blog posts using the native...

No April Fool’s here – check out Scot Guthrie’s latest blog post.  MVC Framework from Microsoft has been released under the the OSI approved MS-PL license.   You can read all about it at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/04/01...