Category: General

An interesting Infoworld article I came across this morning has Forest Key of Microsoft telling some internet chatters that they are “very interested” in Ruby. Well, they did hire John Lam, so I’m sure there is some truth to that, but it was in relation to the Expressions toolkit, so it will be interesting to watch…

I’m taking a couple of days off of work, and trying to get caught up on some stuff that I’d let sit during the baby, move and new job. One of those things is my emails. I own my own domain, and I have an email address which is a catchall for anything that gets…

Tomorrow and Tuesday has me heading to Austin, TX. I’m actually pretty happy about this trip – I’ll get to hang out with Jason Darling and Scott Bellware at the Austin .NET User’s Group tomorrow night. Plus, I get to stay in warm temperates (unlike Philadelphia where I was last week). If you’ll be in…

Sharepoint is a neat product. It has the potential to help organizations do quite a bit as far as collaboration, managing data, etc. But for some reason, people talk about Sharepoint with slightly gritted teeth that only now do I fully understand. What do I mean? Check out Todd Bleeker’s blog post from over a…

Several months ago Vikram Goyal emailed me letting me know he had a new book coming out from Apress – Pro Java ME MMAPI: Mobile Media API for Java Micro Edition. Having done mobile device development using J2ME, I knew how difficult it can be to do – or explain – some of the tricks…

So, in yesterday’s post, I mentioned a story that happened. Well, not so much happened, but I wish they had this in the states. While I was out walking, I ran across what looked like a small collection of stores. Going in, I discovered it was a 5 story mall, complete with bowling alley and…

My customer has kept me very busy here, not to mention that it gets dark at around 4:30 pm and it’s been raining, so it was hard to go out and get some pictures. Tuesday night, though, I had to go out to find something to eat, so I took my camera and grab some…

After almost 20 hours of traveling, I arrived in Budapest this morning to teach a Visual Studio Team System class to a company over here. I’m getting the chance to stay right on the Danube river, and wanted to share some pictures before I collapse into bed. ;) The hotel is in an old converted…

So, one of the tough things about Ruby development has been lack of things like Intellisense and Debugging. There was always the Eclipse tools for Ruby, but for those who use Visual Studio – rejoice! Sapphire Steel Software has released Ruby In Steel, which lets Visual Studio users do all sorts of Ruby goodness – even…

In my previous posts, I talked about improving performance of your XslCompiledTransform code, and working to compile XSL which might be cached. These threads started because of some confusion around one of our MSDN docs – specifically this one on migrating code to XslCompiledTransform. Specifically it says: The XslCompiledTransform class includes many performance improvements. The…