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If you’re reading my blog, there’s a good chance you have a technical background or work in the IT industry. Like myself, I’m guessing that most folks who work in IT become known as the “tech guru” in their circle of friends and family. You know you’re
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Some folks are sports junkies. You know who they are. These are the folks constantly checking their phones for the latest scores. In an elevator or water cooler discussion, they can rattle off statistics on any player, team, game, or event. Anytime
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When folks hear that I work for Microsoft, the first question I'm often asked is, "What do you do for them?" When I tell them that I am a Developer Evangelist, it leads to even more questions. "Evangelist?! What type of
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How do you know when you're addicted to something? Twitter is quickly becoming the new crack cocaine! (Not that I've ever tried that before. Despite that scandalous NY Post headline , I haven't.) It's been six weeks now since I
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Twitter is the popular online service that asks you to answer the simple question " What are you doing? " in 140 characters or less. Your answers (as well as others) can be subscribed to via RSS on your computer or SMS text messages on
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Social Networking: Everyone wants a piece of the action. Users want to be where the cool people are and feel part of a community. Businesses want to make money off of it. The 44 billion dollar question is: How? I don't know the
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Some sad news to pass on from Bill Zack... I have some sad news to relate to with you today. Stephen Goodwin passed away on the morning of March 7, 2008. I have known Stephen for over 12 years, from the time that he joined the New York Enterprise
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About two weeks ago, Scoble blogged that he saw something from Microsoft that made him cry. Now some might think he was being a big crybaby, or worse... probably over-hyping something. It didn't take long before others were speculating
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No... I'm not talking about the most influential folks in the Microsoft developer community. (Although, I consider myself fortunate to work with many of them.) I'm not talking about the experts or anything like that. I'm just picking up on the blog meme
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On Monday, HP began selling their Media Smart Server . It is the first Windows Home Server to hit the market. Given the release of this new consumer product from Microsoft, there's been quite a few stories in the press: http://www.sys-con.com/read/454830.htm
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In my neighborhood, all of the utilities run underground. I've been waiting patiently for the day Verizon brings their FIOS service to my town. I always figured that when they did, I'd know in advance since they'd have to dig up the streets to lay the
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On Sunday, I participated with a bunch of my Microsoft colleagues in the 23rd annual NYC MS Bike Tour . What a great experience! Our small team of about 31 riders joined over 5,200 others on a 30 mile loop around the edge of Manhattan island . The numbers
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Well, it's good to be finally be back and typing behind the keyboard again! It's extremely rare that I go two weeks completely offline without checking e-mail. But I was really knocked out while in the hospital, and then sleeping most of the week at home
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I usually don't write much here about events in my personal life, but figured I'd let everyone know that I just got out of the hospital yesterday. I have been in and out of the hospital since last Tuesday battling a kidney stone. If you haven't heard
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The discussion over whether Microsoft "gets" agile development in the Microsoft community has carried on the past couple of days, with some comments flowing over to Nick Malik's blog . Nick wrote a follow-up to both my post and Martin Fowler's post. Nick
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