I did a particularly lousy job of sending out Christmas cards this year, so figured I would instead make a last ditch effort to bring some joy to the world through my blog. As you may have seen we have had a pretty interesting winter so far in Seattle...

If your desk is anything like mine it is cluttered with millions of sticky notes, each containing some snippet of information that at some point seemed worth writing down. If you have been dreaming of the day that you can have your VS environment look...

This one is a little late to press, but for those who haven't already seen it the Architecture Journal recently published an article on Distributed Computing Patterns that myself, Joshy Joseph, Dmitri Ossipov, Massimo Mascaro and Danny Garber wrote. You...

My colleague Joshy Joseph reminded me that the MGrammar based Turtle Graphics parser that I posted here was for VS2010. I have attached a newer version of the solution that Joshy coverted to run in VS2008. I noticed that Doug Finke has also done the same...