Sky Lynn Reed's 0th birthday is 5/15/2008 at 5:44pm, when she weighed 8 pounds, 0 ounces. A nice round binary number. Our first born! There are simply no words to describe the experience. We debated on whether we should have kids for a long time. After being married almost 5 years now, we finally decided...

A great read, it makes you believe that if you do something you believe in sincerely and keep doing it consistently, then it will definitely pay some day, even reading first 3-4 paragraphs will convince you on why Muhammad Yunus(proud initiator of Grameen Bank) deserved the Nobel Peace Prize . Worth...

Joining the CodeBetter Community.... #light type FullName = string * string let FullNameToString (name : FullName) = let first, last = name in first + " " + last let blogger = FullNameToString( "Matthew" , "Podwysocki" ) I'm pretty excited to be joining the CodeBetter gang after following for so many...

Soo, I stated in my goals when I started this blog (not long ago at all) that I would post one general web dev related post a week and one code sample/tutorial style post per month. So does this mean I failed my goals already? I guess so.... A strange thing happened and I've actually realised something...

Just a reminder that ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle registration is still open, although we are sold out at the moment, we are taking stand-by's just in case some drop out. So, if you hadn't registered with us, go ahead and do so, and don't let the sold out scare you. Just keep in mind that you may not...

Took a second to realize what the heck was going on here. I think that this was due to a number of tries at installing VS 2008 and some MS BI tools and then uninstalling VS 05 and then putting it back. Everything still works but the UI looks like something out of 1992...

Sorry I never posted a welcome notice to this blog. Anyhow, welcome to my new home on the net. If you don't know me already, my former blog is at geekswithblogs.net . If you're here for the first time, great! So, who am I? Well, I live and work in the Washington, DC area and actively involved in the...

Back to the grind. Actually, I've been back to the grind for weeks but haven't been blogging due to time constraints. 2007 ended with a fender bender followed by my eldest daughter going to the hospital in East Podunk New Hampshire with 105 F fever and pneumonia. She's much better and the folks were...

So I'm looking at all the new stuff that was just released and the things that are going to be released soon. It's a good time to be a programmer in the Microsoft way as long as you are aligning yourself appropriately with the stars. ASP.Net MVC So we now have an actual complex pattern that you can read...

So my MOSS VM decided to spend an hour running a check disk and recovering bad sectors. This is a very unhappy time when you think of all the code you didn't check in yet... One of my daughters had requested a Dr. Seuss book for bedtime and I was in a verse-ish kind of place... so here is how I spent...