I recently talked to a customer who thought he was a bit "tunnel-visioned" as a .NET developer and wanted a few books that weren't so tunnelled as well. After all, developers naturally focus on parts of .NET that help them get their job done everyday...

I was reading my trusty August 2006 MSDN Magazine and came across a jewel. Common Language Runtime (CLR) program managers Alessandro Catorcini and Piotr Puszkiewicz have a great nutshell piece that covers many of the knobs that developers can now use...

At TechEd 2006, a 200-page book was passed out to attendees, 7 Development Projects for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 . If you didn't make it to Beantown, you can download the entire book in PDF format .

Last week at the Office Developer Conference in Redmond, Bill Gates announced the availability of the March Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio Tools for Office 'v3'. Please do note upfront, this CTP only works the Beta 1 Technical Refresh...

Recently I was immersed in my other passion, economics, and came across a blurb about a new book, Tides Turning, which predicts that climate change is likely to be abrupt and cataclysmic—and that these sudden shifts could cripple national economies. Newsweek...

A really fun part of my job as Developer Evangelist is coding and figuring out how things work. And of course sometimes that involves installing new pieces of software that doesn't perform as expected. Since a lot of my time is spent with a lot of virtual...

This is going to be my first technical blog, and as a Microsoft Developer Evangelist dedicated to the Communications Sector, I spend quite a bit of time with developers in the telcos and media & entertainment space. What to focus on is always a challenging...