I wanted to take the opportunity to thank Brendan, and the gang here for all the good times. It's been a great opportunity. I decided with much fear and consideration to set up my own closed blogging community site. I have recently set up my own community blogging site at TheRuntime.com . If you...

Peter tagged me a few days ago, and I haven’t had a chance to respond. So here goes… 5 things you don’t know about me (do you really want to know this?) I not only write code, but music although I’m not coordinated enough to really play an instrument although I think I have a...

Yesterday, I have come full circle and realized how I have been apart of something really cool! If you go all the way back to my second post back in March of 2004 , you will see that the MS Dev Evangelist for the SW ( Joe Healy ) at gave me my nickname. We met again for the first time but this time it...

A response to the Gypsy's Sr. Developer Attributes So my buddy and former student -- the webgypsy -- has written a post that he attributes to the lessons he learned from me. My initial response is "Oh no, don't pin this one on me." So I decided to have a little fun and respond in a point by point manner...

So I just finished working on something really cool at work (that's the day job that I hint at, but never reveal much about because I don't want to be tempted to criticize work and get fired...) I had to work on a rewrite of a (windows) service that we have that manipulates email in folders in an inbox...

Just wanted to point myself and others to a great article on encryption. Eric Marvets writes about Block Cyphers and IVs. Prior to reading the article I would have been able to give you a vacuous answer as to what Intialization vectors (IVs and sometimes referred to as salt) do. I could not have told...

You know this fantasy conference has not been as good as the Sells XML Conference. I hope he has another one of those soon; I'll sign up ASAP this time. Seriously it appears that Darrell is having a good time. I still wish I was there (basically nothing cool or funny to say today.. I'm working! Dang...

<pure_fiction reason="I'm not at TechEd">I imagine that after a long night, I would just be getting to the conference right now... A long night with Don and Melissa Demsak (in my mind she's really nice... since I've never met her, I really don't know) and whoever else is hanging with them. After...

I decided to blog about my non-experiences at TechEd 2005. I didn't get to go... It sold out before I could get all my paperwork at work to go through. Right now I would be experiencing the Key-note. I think this was going to be delivered by Steve Balmer (since I couldn't go I lost interest in seeing...

Ok, I want to jump off on something that got posted in the comments regarding my whole experts deal (BTW, whether you agreed/understood what I was saying... the whole discussion was interesting). So I got a comment on the first post ( here's the comment) where the anonymous commenter said this "Life...