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From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

Confessions of a Software Developer

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Has anybody else ever felt overwhelmed with the sheer mass of "stuff" involved with software development?

Side-wide user controls in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:01:02 GMT

3 ways to handle "global" user controls in ASP.NET MVC.

Create Web Sites+Services with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:31:03 GMT

An example library that shows how, with one line of code and a few conventions, your ASP.NET web site can instantly serve up HTML, POX, or JSON. Very cool!

Easily redirect email threads in outlook

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:29:47 GMT

We all deal with too much email - it doesn't help with some of that email is unnecessary. Here's an outlook macro that helps automate "redirecting" an email thread so that it keeps the right people in the loop, and the wrong people out of the loop.

DotNetKicks "Kick It" plugin for Windows Live Writer

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:46:02 GMT

I want a DotNetKicks "kick it" image+link on some posts, but not all - and there is no automated way to do that. So I created an "Insert Kick It Counter..." plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert a placeholder, and a Wordpress plugin to insert the image+link when the placeholder is found. Hopefully somebody else will find it useful also!

Death and destruction from OpenID

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:56:24 GMT

There has been a blog post floating around recently which discusses the many pitfalls of OpenID ... of these issues are simple policy issues. They can be resolved by implementation decisions by the OpenID ... trusting that the site you're at will faithfully send you to your OpenID provider and not some man-in-the-middle masquerading as your provider.

Use caution with Strongly Typed Resources

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:46:02 GMT

Some words of caution/warning for using Strongly Typed Resources generated by VS2005+

Creating RESTful Web Services with WCF

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:41:08 GMT

An article on developer.com (linked to in the blog post) about creating "RESTful" web services using the new "web programming" model in WCF 3.5 Beta 2 (WebGet/WebInvoke)