Contagious Curiosity

This month's Vanity Fair had an interesting article on the contemporary art scene in China . The work of Yue Minjun caught my eye more than the other artists shown. I've always particularly liked art that made me laugh (and think) at the same time. ...

More about INTJs , at least you can't say that I didn't tell you :)

This site is not only elegant, but, of course, the running theme is personally appealing to me. If you are an ASP.NET web developer and are just getting started with Silverlight - here's a good first stop . Commerce Site - Home Page

Then you need to get more information! Here's a list of links after my SharePoint Workflow for Developers webcast today. SharePoint Workflow introduction http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx Create a workflow in SharePoint...

Link to Koan : Accurate Proportion

Here's a detailed answer to a great question from my MSDN session today. Q1. In the WCF demo, I illustrated the “secure by default” nature of wsHttpBinding. In order to illustrate this, we inspected the messages using Fiddler2 from a call using basicHttpBinding...

We discovered a shortcut that makes teaching #TKP courseware with SmallBasic even easier.  You can put everything you need for each pair of students on a single flash drive – SmallBasic, SmallBasic Extensions, Courseware, etc… AND you can run SmallBasic...

**this is an update to the article published late last year in MSDN Magazine – it includes information current as of May 29th, including the TechEd 2011 SQL Azure announcements** In addition to the information in this article, I recently did a series...

Does is really look like this? Although always interested in math, I've never had the opportunity to have a formal math education. I have been kicking around the idea of going back to school to pursue an advanced degree in math, because, well..math...

I bought a new laptop with my own money last week – the first time I’d purchased a laptop since I joined Microsoft nearly 4 years ago.  What did I plunk down a little over $ 1500 for?  A MacBook Air . What did I buy? A MacBook Air, 11” with...

UI matters. Does yours look like this? If you are interested in Windows Presentation Foundation development training delivered by two top-notch instructors, then check this event out, by registering here .  If you are not a MS-partner, follow the...

As promised here are the post-webcast resources. Also, I'll be posting the date for the 'added' webcast - SharePoint workflows for developers shortly. Thanks to all of you that attended today's webcast. Be reminded that the geekSpeak webcasts start...

Blogger Robert Shelton does it again - get his tutorials on WF. Again, he's posted on Live SkyDrive, so if you live outside of the US, let him know, so that he can provide the files directly to you. Free Workflow: Part 1 - Introduction to building workflow...

As I journey into Windows cloud-land (otherwise known as Azure and Azure Services), I am finding the path to getting starting to be a bit tricky.  I have run into several gotchas as I worked through the process of requesting and using the various...

All FREE - download them here But wait, there's more - get these master pages as well.

Ok now that I have your attention (!), I am going to write a bit about my first experience at the international, annual Agile conference.  Agile 2011 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah last week.  I attended and spoke (on ‘Teaching Kids to Program...

Here's a link to a cool app to help you make your own startrails.

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...

Hey readers - thanks for sticking with me so far. I hope you are getting something meaningful (and maybe even occasionally entertaining) from this blog. You certainly make me smile - whether you are legitimately complaining about some lame thing or some...

Here’s my deck for my presentation for TechEd / New Zealand (to be delivered live and recorded next week in Auckland).  Below the deck are links to the demo files as well. SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 for Developers View more presentations from Lynn Langit...

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

From my webcast today - here are the links - be sure to search using the tags 'MOSS' and 'SharePoint' on my blog for even more information! Link to Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 ...

This is a cool tool , it helps you to quickly write and deploy ADF (application definition files) which allow you index external (line-of-business) software using the BDC (business data catalog) feature available in MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...

Here's a link to the deck from my presentation today. Also, here's a link to the detailed SharePoint developer poster that I talked about in my presentation as well. Download details: 2007 Office System: Developer Posters

Here are the decks from my presentations for TechEd Australia this week.  The sessions will be recorded.  I’ll post the links after – thanks. SQL Server 2008 R2 Features for Developers View more presentations from Lynn Langit . And Here SQL...