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  • Insecure Christmas Shopping: Am I Taking Crazy Pills?

    I've done a lot of Christmas shopping online this year. It's perfect for the gift giving I like to do: I prefer to give experiences instead of products because most of the people I shop for don't need more material possessions. It's all samsara anyway, right? I've found that many of these experiential...

  • My 2 Cents on MapPoint

    Brendan Tompkins praises MapPoint Web Services ; I like the product too, but I'm not sure about the price point (our usage is small enough right now that our MSFT partner status lets us use it for free). We'll have to see how that shakes out. The functionality is outstanding. There's a MapPoint blog...

  • Javascript Nostalgia

    I have a real soft spot for doing things other people think are hard (or better yet, impossible!); this doesn't mean I always succeed, but it does mean I usually want to accomplish what others think “cannot be done.” While sometimes that means challenges like this goal for 2006 , this tendency of...

  • Local Alphabet Soup Social Courtesy of Microsoft

    Microsoft had a nice end-of-year social for area user group organizers tonight; not just developer focused user groups, but a wide spectrum of technology related groups. I had a chance to talk a bit with some folks from AITP and ITPA -- a bit of alphabet soup, right? It gets better, though, as some folks...

  • Post MSDN Event "Pub Club" Tuesday, Dec 14th in Newport News VA

    The story for next Tuesday keeps getting better. We've already got the MSDN event starting at 1 PM at the Regal Cinemas in Newport News (near Kiln Creek), and now I learn that Geoff Snowman and Microsoft will be hosting a casual “pub club” after the formal presentations at 2nd Street Restaurant...

  • One step in the pursuit of fast executing .Net code

    We observed sluggish performance in some “proof of concept“ code yesterday; I pealed back the layers of the onion to find what optimizations I could make. Of course, measurement is a key to doing code optimization; it's how you quantify any progress you're making! I've had success with the...

  • VA MSDN Events for December

    Microsoft's DCC Geoff Snowman just shared two free upcoming MSDN events for .Net developers: Newport News: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032258622 Chester: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032258636 There both...
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