As a Microsoft Partner we had the opportunity to get our hands on Windows 7 Beta.  Here are a couple of highlights from my user experience.  Before going on please understand I was just "playing" with Windows 7 not really making any atte ...[Read More]

There are a few bloggers that I regularly read, but thanks to a twitter post I found one that I had missed.  This blog is from "The Kid" (a UK developer) about debugging in SharePoint.  This provides some great information/details about ...[Read More]

After following Scott Gu's 8 part blog on Silverlight and using it to get a feed from Digg I decided to try out my own Silverlight project. Since I use Twitter, not nearly enough, I thought it would be fun to have a little application that can rea ...[Read More]

Microsoft has finally done it, they have actually created a site that lists all of their SDKs and provides links to them!  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd299405.aspx  Happy Downloading! ...[Read More]

I finally have a little time while some code I developed is being tested to take a look at the "new" technologies Microsoft has released. Since my experimentation of Azure flopped, I didn't have a supported system, I decided to turn my a ...[Read More]

I decided to try and take a quick look at Windows Azure and see where Microsoft was with its cloud computing/services models. Unfortunately I found the supported systems to be limited to Vista (SP1) and Windows Server 2008. Since my current develo ...[Read More]

I got an e-mail today from my parents with this article attached about a passenger on American 1549 which "landed" in the Hudson last week.    Jim happens to be my Uncle's neighbor in Baltimore and is a fantastic person.  He often loans ...[Read More]

I am happy to announce the release of our ECTS Extensions to CodePlex.  This extension provides a bit of a performance boost especially to the User Management capability in ECTS.  ECTS provides a forms based authentication schema for SharePoint ...[Read More]