I really have a wide taste in music and can listen to most anything for at least a little bit. For the most part though, I’ve always enjoyed music in the hard rock genre more than other genres. Tha...

Microsoft has announced their Secure Content Downloader, which they’re touting as “a peer-assisted downloader for downloading select Microsoft CTPs”. This is just another attempt by Microsoft to r...

Very often, I hear people referring to open source software as any software in which the deliverable includes source code. This is not the case. There is a fundamental difference between free sourc...

Teams working under a scrum model very often talk about the relentless pace of scrum. There seems to be a constant pressure on getting new work done. So much so, that a lot of teams feel that there...

As part of one of my COM classes at school, I need to write a 2500 word research paper. The thesis of this paper is that the process of writing functional software has become much easier with the a...

Alex Mueller posted an article the other day that talks about the ASP.NET page life cycle and focuses specifically on occasions where OnPreRender may or may not be called. Alex’s post just reitera...

How do you help an agile software development team become more productive and more “agile”? I think the answer lies in the agile manifesto itself. We value “individuals and interactions over proce...

Not long ago, we bought an HP Color LaserJet 2605dn printer for our home office. Our experience with this printer has been absolutely fantastic, with one exception. If the printer had been sitting ...

As most people know, I absolutely adore Apple and the work that’s been coming out of there as it relates to the iPhone and (gasp) HTML/Javascript as a web development platform. I went so far as to...

After listening to the recent Hanselminutes podcast with Martin Fowler and David Heinemen Hanson, it dawned on what the difference between the two camps really was. Microsoft is attempting to be a...