Cheshire's Blog

It's pretty common for me to work cases where something bad happens when an ASP.NET application is accessing a database. The nature of my job dictates that troubleshooting on these applications is most often performed in a production environment via post Read More...

Expression Web is Microsoft's latest web design tool. It should be no surprise to you that we put a lot of effort into making sure that Expression Web supported the design-time elements of ASP.NET 2.0. Doing so has proven to be a double-edged sword. On Read More...

My Microsoft roots are in Office. My first job here was supporting Word 6.0. In fact, I remember interviewing for that job the day that Windows 95 released. When the interviewer asked me if I was going to upgrade to Windows 95, I replied that I'd like Read More...

Apple has launched a campaign of FUD against Windows Vista. You know what FUD is, right? F ear, u ncertainty, and d oubt, and that's just what Apple relies on in their "you need a new computer for Vista" campaign. While Apple's commercials show the same Read More...

I haven't blogged in a long time, partly because I've been very busy with other things, but mostly because I made the mistake of making this a debugging blog when I started it. Little did I know that one of the most prolific technical bloggers the world Read More...