I’ve always been a bit twiddler – whether it’s doing machine code on an 8-bit RCA COSMAC microprocessor or writing 16-bit drivers for Windows 3.1 or doing Windows Server 2003 storage related development, I’ve never shied away from getting into the meat of the system. In 1992, I got “Inside Windows NT...

I never thought I'd be doing this. As of 9:10am, Tuesday March 2, 2004, I have just started the installation of Linux on my IBM ThinkPad X20 laptop. Egads! FYI, for those who don't know me - I'm pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool Windows guy. Back in early 90's I was the hard core Windows guy in the OS/2...

As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming . When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000” into the title of the book, as it would...

I'm finally learning the Perl language. Being a Microsoft guy for so long, I really stuck with C/C++/C#, VB, VB.NET and VBScript. I even wrote client-side scripting in JScript and not JavaScript. :-) This will be my second new language in the past four months. Previously, for my last project, I was doing...

I’ve always been a bit twiddler – whether it’s doing machine code on an 8-bit RCA COSMAC microprocessor or writing 16-bit drivers for Windows 3.1 or doing Windows Server 2003 storage related development, I’ve never shied away from getting into the meat of the system. In 1992, I got “Inside Windows NT...

I never thought I'd be doing this. As of 9:10am, Tuesday March 2, 2004, I have just started the installation of Linux on my IBM ThinkPad X20 laptop. Egads! FYI, for those who don't know me - I'm pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool Windows guy. Back in early 90's I was the hard core Windows guy in the OS/2...

As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming . When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000” into the title of the book, as it would...

I'm finally learning the Perl language. Being a Microsoft guy for so long, I really stuck with C/C++/C#, VB, VB.NET and VBScript. I even wrote client-side scripting in JScript and not JavaScript. :-) This will be my second new language in the past four months. Previously, for my last project, I was doing...

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived :) Either...

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...