Yesterday, Phil got me to watch the SubSonic screencast (it was actually called the ASP.NET ActionPack and was since renamed ). I'd seen posts about it on my main RSS feeds and had ignored it because everyone had been giving their posts titles like "ActionPack - Ruby on Rails for ASP.NET."...

Well, it's that time of year again when the MVP's from around the UK and Ireland come together for a conference on the MVP program and to network with one another. On Friday I was up very early for my three and a half hour commute down to Reading from Manchester. The traffic was fantastic, I arrived...

Well, it's that time of year again when the MVP's from around the UK and Ireland come together for a conference on the MVP program and to network with one another. On Friday I was up very early for my three and a half hour commute down to Reading from Manchester. The traffic was fantastic, I arrived...

Yesterday, Phil got me to watch the SubSonic screencast (it was actually called the ASP.NET ActionPack and was since renamed ). I'd seen posts about it on my main RSS feeds and had ignored it because everyone had been giving their posts titles like "ActionPack - Ruby on Rails for ASP.NET."...

I was super-excited to learn that Andrew Grant was able to run the Photo Handler unmodified on Windows Home Server . This is actually one more reason for me to put Home Server on my to-buy list. I shoot thousands of pictures a year and only upload the very best on Flickr . But the reason why I enhanced...

While in my 'getting back into coding' frame of mind I've been surfing around looking at various sources of information - I've come to realise something that I missed before - there's a lot less 'high quality' information avaialble today that say 3 years ago. Back in the days...

ASP.NET 2.0 contains a new set of security-related controls, known collectively as the Login controls. By taking advantage of the Login controls, you can create standard registration, login, and password recovery pages without writing any code. [Via Ohad Israeli, Israel ]

I get lots of questions on how to become an MVP, so I thought I'd make a blog entry about it. My most recent inquiry involved asking how to "obtain the Microsoft MVP Certification". I always enjoy requests like this, because they tell me people are excited about Microsoft Products and technologies and...

Recently, I was given the opportunity to speak at an up-coming INETA meeting (Cedar Rapids, IA branch. http://www.crineta.org ). I have been doing a lot of Ajax Script service things lately, and really wanted to get the lead out and try my hand at an entire example. It was important that for my speech...

Yesterday I got to write our entry in OpenAjax's InteropFest . The goal of this event is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub . The currently central feature of the hub is to expose a publish/subscribe...