The .NET Sweatshop (v2)

Yeah, I know everyone is blogging about TechEd right now, but I feel I need to get my comments in before it gets completely stale. This year, Microsoft decided to hold it in San Diego, a great city and was a wonderful choice to hold TechEd 2004. Of course...

I think it was Bill Gates who once said that we always overestimate where technology will take us in the short-term (2-3 years) but underestimate where we will be in 10 years. I think there's a tremendous amount of wisdom in that observation. If you think...

OK, I like to pick on myself as the marketing guy that lost his technical skills in b-school. But, in truth, I still pride myself of having a nice balance of business and geekness and staying fairly current on what's going in the developer/architect world...

So the first p&p Summit has finally come to a close and I can't help but feel like a proud father after the birth of his first child. I say father because the mother does all the work in that situation and in this case, Keith Pleas was mom. He was...

Tomorrow is finally the day. We're running the first patterns & practices Summit . I'm really excited to see how this turns out. Keith Pleas has done a tremendous job as conference chair and people are really responding to both the concept as well...