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...

[out of date post... this deals with MS Atlas CTP... which has been change drastically and is now MS Ajax Extensions] In case you missed it, I’ve had a pretty cool conversation with Steve Maine in the comments portion of my Atlas Thoughts post. Steve, when I last checked, is a Program Manager on...

I recently acquired the "No Tables for layout" religion. I have stopped using tables for the layout of a page. I use divs/panels and CSS2. I do still use tables for tabular data (like grids); I just find that they create as many problems as they solve. I've discovered that most simple layouts can be...

Michael Howard (one of the Author's of Writing Secure Code ) says that there are 2 types of security problems: those involving untrusted input and everything else. It's true. Most of the security issues that we face and have to deal with in our code can be dealt with by validation checks. One of the...

This is a quick personal (kind of) post. I just wanted my regular readers to stay tuned. I will be back (am back). I've had an extremely busy couple of weeks. I'm writing a guide for the How TO Select Guides on Internet E-mail components, have been extremely busy at work, and tie down pretty heavy by...

I've recently encountered a couple people giving some advice that I think is nonsense. One of them is a Microsoft employee and the other is a contractor here at my work place... I found the advice as an overzealousness to sell people on a new technology without looking at the sense or nonsense of the...