The .NET Sweatshop (v2)

I'm back. Having been my first trip to India in 22 years, I found it to be a remarkable experience, both from a personal as well as professional level. While I won’t bore you with the details of my personal revelations (I have a separate personal...

So, my role at for patterns & practices spans a lot of disciplines. I am the marketing guy that is responsible for awareness, customer touch, etc. (yeah, I know--not enough people know about us but we're getting better!). I am also the financial guy...

An interesting thing happened the other day. I was hanging out with a non-techie friend when he asked me if I knew about a problem he was having with Internet Explorer. Apparently, his web pages were showing chinese characters wherever the character combo...

I admit it--I watch “The Apprentice“. For those of you outside the US that don't know, it was a show where a bunch of Donald Trump-wannabes compete against one another on menial tasks to get a job working for him as a CEO of one of his companies...

My last post got a lot of interesting comments from a lot of people, both as feedback and mails directly to me. I will eventually comment on the comments in a future mail, but in the meantime, a word from our sponsor... We just released the second...