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...

So a co-worker (Scott H.) sent me some code that is purely fictional (but a sick part of me wishes I had actually found it in the wild). Here's the code - Public Function IsNotFalse( ByRef Value As Boolean ) As Boolean IsNotFalse = False If Value = True Then IsNotFalse = True Else IsNotFalse = False...

I just saw this post by my co-worker Rob Teixeira (MS MVP) on Agile. Actually, IMO, it's not really about agile at all except maybe for Rob to get a couple one-liners in (on both sides), and it's also not an attack on agile despite the source of the name. Ultimately his post is to introduce one of the...

A response to the Gypsy's Sr. Developer Attributes So my buddy and former student -- the webgypsy -- has written a post that he attributes to the lessons he learned from me. My initial response is "Oh no, don't pin this one on me." So I decided to have a little fun and respond in a point by point manner...

I can't hold back on this one... Eric Wise has become an open source hippie like Brendan and me... See here ... Ok, actually Eric is experimenting with the Open Source model, and for a lot of the same reasons I would end up going that route witha product I actually built... it's spelled T I M E ... Family...

[I've been busy lately; sorry I haven't blogged much. Working For the How To Select Guides has kept me pretty busy]. During the whole ORM debate on my blog here, both Frans and Paul Wilson pointed out a couple things with using tools like CodeSmith that I have been pondering (BTW, if I haven't mentioned...

You know this fantasy conference has not been as good as the Sells XML Conference. I hope he has another one of those soon; I'll sign up ASAP this time. Seriously it appears that Darrell is having a good time. I still wish I was there (basically nothing cool or funny to say today.. I'm working! Dang...

I've done a bit of reading over the last couple days. DonXML mentioned Domain Driven Design (DDD) in a comment . This led me to a series of posts from Steve Eichert on DDD. This post of Steve's was very intriguing to me. He talks about the need for UI Mappers and how they could potentially make life...