Seems a lot of people are scratching their heads at Micrsoft’s move to charge $1.50 per download on the Office Beta . They’re wondering (besides money I guess) what the rationale behind this move is. It’s really quite simple. In the universe there must be balance. With the charge for...

Seems a lot of people are scratching their heads at Micrsoft’s move to charge $1.50 per download on the Office Beta . They’re wondering (besides money I guess) what the rationale behind this move is. It’s really quite simple. In the universe there must be balance. With the charge for...

I didn’t get a chance to blog yesterday as it was a full day for me but here’s the recap as there were many things going on all over the place and the entire day is a bit of a blur (much like this blog entry is looking right now after 3 hours of sleep). I was manning the Technical Learning...

I didn’t get a chance to blog yesterday as it was a full day for me but here’s the recap as there were many things going on all over the place and the entire day is a bit of a blur (much like this blog entry is looking right now after 3 Read More...

Arno Nel recently posted a question about what is Architecture on his blog and some people disagree with what he suggested it was (to be fair to Arno, he asked the question of what people thought about the questions he asked, but I don’t believe he thinks this way). I came across this fairly elegant...

I’m a happy camper. Not only am I be going to be at TechEd and working for the man (read:Microsquishy) as a Technical Expert in the Office System Track at the Technical Learning Center (yeah, just ask me silly questions about SharePoint like you always do) but my Birds of a Feather session, “Getting...

As the latte kicks in this morning, I thought this was interesting. With Microsoft touting their free line of Visual Studio Express and SQL Server 2005 Express products to get developers interested in building .NET systems, it seems Oracle has finally broken down and done the same thing. They now have...

Our latest podcast is now online at Plumbers @ Work . We’re just belting out the episodes now that John isn’t traveling the globe pimping Visual Studio anymore. Episode #3 is up and running along with an upgrade to Community Server 2.0 which has a better look and a lot of cool features (perfect...

I'm really happy to say that our podcast show about .NET, Plumbers @ Work, is featured in the latest MSDN Flash . If you haven't subscribed to MSDN Flash, I encourage you to do so. It puts you in touch with the .NET community, user groups, and much more (yes, another shameless plug for another mailing...

Okay, it's been a week since I blogged. Bless me readers, it's been a tough week. Anyways, a couple of updates. The closed beta for SharePoint Builder (my visual xml tool) is launching shortly. If you're in the beta then hang on to your hats. If you're not in, please stop sending me emails asking to...