I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

One of the things I love about my job is that the IT department gets the new toys and our old toys are filtered to the rest of the company. This puts the latest and greatest power machines in the hands of the power users which is the way things should be! I used to get quite offended when the management...

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

Here's a good example of where build vs buy kicks in: One of the developers I'm mentoring was tasked with writing a summary report that had 3 groupings. Since the company currently has no reporting software, the poor junior developer was trying to have a datagrid in a datagrid in a datalist and juggle...

As I had previously posted , the company I'm working for right now has purchased 5 subscriptions to the Telerik Control Suite . I've had some queries from interested developers asking how I like the controls so far and the answer is that I like them a lot! Today I'm going to show a brief example of how...

Heard their ad on DNR. Has anyone used their control suite? Do you like it? I was playing with some of their demos and they seemed pretty sharp and the code behind looked pretty manageable to work with. http://www.telerik.com/

Since I'm diving heads first into refactoring Easy Assets .NET I figured I'd post some messages on what exactly I'm doing, my thought processes behind it, and how I think the application and especially the users will benefit. Note that I highlight the users. I believe that the amount of work it takes...