Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

MSN joins the fray. . .

Courtesy Patrick Tisseghem:

Community Server is a starter kit on steroids.

How does Microsoft develop software? This is a first attempt at pulling the public resources together. There is an excellent paper called "How Microsoft Builds Software" by Cusumano and Selby, though it requires a paid account on the ACM portal. Resources based on the article are provided below in PowerPoint and Acrobat formats.

I've been assimilated full-time by the good folks at CDI Education as a "Senior Consultant" (the best name we could come up with for my role as architect, mentor, developer, speaker and sometime trainer). CDI is the leading corporate trainer in Canada and they've been my primary client since March. I'm really proud of the .NET development we've already done and am really looking forward to the projects we have planned over the next year. From the President on down they've put a great team together and I'm glad to be a part of it.

An interesting question came through today regarding an article I did about custom error pages:

Who are the ASPInsiders? We're a group of industry influencers and early adopters who work closely with the ASP.NET and IIS development teams in Redmond. You likely recognize many of the names on the membership roster, we're all pretty active in the developer community in one way or another. Membership is tight, and to answer the most common question off the top: There isn't much, if anything you can do to move your own name along. If you're a suitable candidate then we already know about you. If or when you receive ten nominations from existing members, we will contact you. That's the process everyone but the founders went through to become members, and it's worked well to foster a high level of trust and respect among the membership.

Robert Hensing recently updated the blog post that started the public debate and cites Jesper Johansson as his inspiration for his own conversion to pass phrases.