Contagious Curiosity

Matt rules! Where The Hell Is Matt?

Of course you do.  I mean, c'mon we all do.  But how creative are you?  What parameters do you use?  It is fun when you find things like the blog entry shown below though.  Of course, I'll be needing to suggest that you 'live...

What you don't read ScottGu's blog?  Who DOESN'T read his blog?  Well, apparently me - the MVC stuff is flying out the door.  Are you keeping up?  Are you using it yet?  How's it going?  Let me know. I'll be reading his next...

And, for extra credit, who took this picture?

Tell me what you'd like to learn about right now. Thanks for voting! Which technologies do you need to learn more about right now? Silverlight LINQ WCF WPF SharePoint Other: > View Results PollDaddy.com

Oops, I forgot to mention this.  We'll be back, better than ever in August.  See the link below for links to our four August shows. geekSpeak : geekSpeak taking off the month of July -see you in August

From Clemens blog another interesting beta (CTP) released yesterday.  Are you interested in Cloud services?  Why or why not, I am interested in YOUR opinion. Clemens Vasters, Bldg 42 : Announcing the Microsoft Code-Name "BizTalk Services"...

...and Agile programming, more here , picture from duff_sf's wabi-sabi flickr photostream Wabi Sabi

One of my co-authors for my new SQL Server 2008 BI book (Davide Mauri) hails from Milan and blogged about the book in Italian.  My Italian isn't great, but it amused me greatly to read about the book in another language.   It is quite charming...

Interested in the 'identity problem'?  Sometimes these quiet, little betas should really get more attention.  If nothing else, you can learn about the three styles of handling claims-based identity - active, passive or 'passive-aggressive' ...

Thanks to the great team that runs the South Bay.NET UG in Torrance, CA for inviting me to speak last night.  I am really impressed by the quality of the UG that your team has grown in such a short period of time (a little over a year).  If...