Contagious Curiosity

I've returned from my first-ever trip to Africa. I was in Zambia for around two weeks, mostly as a volunteer for the US CDC, working on an electonic medical records tracking system called SmartCare. The intent of the system is to improve care for Zambians...

In keeping with my current theme of "free and cool" stuff. Here's something else - LINQPad. Download LINQPad

Tomorrow evening begins a long journey to the other side of the earth for me (literally). As part of a group of volunteers for the US CDC, I am spending the next couple of weeks in Zambia. While there I will be working with a local developer team on a...

Awesome collection of Features on CodePlex. Thanks to Scot Hillier. Note the AJAX.config feature in particular. SharePoint 2007 Features - Home

It's lonelygirl15's world, isn't it? Maybe not yet (at least for me) After spending a day at the New Media and Podcast Expo , I am thinking that the 'next Web' is all about micro-content. Well, that and oddly-colored hair if the attendees are actually...

Check this out - labcasts - very cool (don't you love this free stuff?) - here are the topics: WCF, WF, Windows Eventing, PowerShell, IIS 7.0, CardSpace, Transactional File System, Vitualization, High Performance Computing Microsoft Virtual Training Series...

Check this out - cool stuff! Synergist : Picture-in-Picture Screencasts with Silverlight

Doing/Learning Enterprise development? -- GRAB THIS ONE! An End-to-End Sample Application Illustrating Windows Communication Foundation and .NET Enterprise Technologies This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application...

What a great day I had meeting with INETA - great people, good times! Thanks to all for building a community around .NET. If you haven't checked out www.ineta.org , I encourage you to do so. Link to INETA Community Leadership Summit

Lots going on for me this week: Monday (Sept 24) - Halo 3 launch Wednesday (Sept 26) - 12-1 PST MSDN geekSpeak: Advanced T-SQL Techniques with Tobias Thernstrom Thursday (Sept 27) - 1-5 - MSDN live event at Irvine Spectrum - LINQ, WCF and Silverlight...

IIS 7.0 is coming - will you be ready? Try out these FREE (during Beta) hosters. IIS.net : IIS7 GoLive Hosters : Microsoft Internet Information Services

Where else but here would Shakemaps be on the news? Stay cool, turn off the TV, read a book, take a nap, what else can you do? Shakemap sc10275733

We've got a great line-up for October. Join us live each Wednesday from noon to 1pm. Ask expert guests (working developers) tough questions about they are using new technologies. Click on the links below to register for the live webcasts. We'll post recorded...

You just never know what you'll get when you show up for one of my MSDN events. Today, I was happy to give the majority of the 400 developers who attended a free copy of an important resource book - Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard...

Sept 7th Esther and I met up in London and continued on to Lusaka, Zambia, then on to Macha, Zambia as part of a couple of weeks volunteering for the US CDC on a medical records project being developed by a local team called SmartCare. Read more details...

As I prepare for an upcoming MSDN event this week in Irvine,CA , it occurred to me that I've got quite a bit of useful information in the introductory deck. So, I've put it here for you to download. One of the things that I try to do in my live presentations...

Jim Jarmusch movies in general are great; ironically his first one is the one I like best. Thankfully, I could still get it from Amazon .

Big news announced today - are you up-to-date on this yet? » Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com

I'll be speaking on SQL Server BI and Data Mining at the User Group in LA on Nov 15th - Many of you have asked where/when I'll speak on this topic, so, if you are interested, I hope to see you there! Los Angeles SQL Server Professionals Group User Group...