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...

It's actually been more than a month since I received this promotion, but I've been so busy pushing towards release for the new internal insurance processing software that my company needed that I haven't had any time to blog! Anyways, I thought I'd quickly and formally announce that...

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...

So I finally relinquished my 19" sony trinitron CRT monitor and upgraded to the Samsung SyncMaster 225BW LCD which is a 22 inch widescreen which I picked up from newegg on their daily specials last week for $376. I must say this monitor is fantastic! I have more screen real estate than I feel like...

One of the things that plagues the contract IT worker is the worry over health insurance. I've been in situations many times when you're between companies/contracts and you get stuck footing a huge cobra insurance bill (I've had monthly premiums from cobra for the family at best $500 and...

Today I accepted an offer from School One so I'm no longer available for contract work. They are a relatively small software shop that offers online applications to schools. The majority of their products are written in old ASP and they're looking to start moving over to ASP .NET. I'm pretty excited...