Ben Tiedt, one of the developer’s on the Community Server team, shares some details on the next version of Community Server version 3.0.   Our focus for the 3.0 release is simplifying the platform and making it easier for people to theme the application.   … Continue reading “Leaner and simpler”

After losing a hard drive about a month ago I had to rebuild my machine and of course re-install all the drivers. Apparently when I installed the drivers for my HP printer/fax/scanner I also picked up some additional “functionality” in the form of a survey. … Continue reading “How not to collect customer feedback”

A friend of mine forwarded me this article from eWeek. In summary it basically summarizes findings from Evans Data that states:   "As expected, developers are finally leaving VB6 and earlier versions; they’re also leaving VB.NET; which is down by 26 percent. This means Java … Continue reading “Did you really mean Java?”

Get the code here from my ASP.NET 2.0 Tips & Tricks talk: http://communityserver.org/files/folders/robs_files/entry555811.aspx

As a web application development team I’m really excited about how AJAX and related technologies are allowing us to make the web experience simpler. As I’ve blogged about before we recently launched the blogmailr.com service. One of our goals was to make sure that we … Continue reading “Loving AJAX”

I just chuckled when I saw this today after getting my laptop updated with IE7. Just a rule of thumb: I *never* add new software to my laptop before a conference, so I’m getting caught up now.   It’s funny since I noticed that my … Continue reading “Browser wars”

  Colonel Sanders from space? For those of you not familiar with KFC it’s a fast-food fried chicken restaurant here in the U.S. Apparently they are claiming the first “ad” to be seen from outer-space.  …I wonder how many chickens died to make this possible. … Continue reading “New to Google maps”

Craig Shoemaker was kind enough to invite me for an interview on his podcast. You can listen to the interview here. While his podcast is usually about architecture and best practices we really just had an informal chat on the business of software. Thanks Craig! … Continue reading “Podcast on the business of software”

BlogMailr got written up by Michael Calore on Wired. That’s freaking cool! It’s fun to watch Google results too. When we came up with the term ‘blogmailr’ and searched for it on Google there were zero results. Today we’re at nearly 400K and climbing (by … Continue reading “BlogMailr on Wired”

Microsoft is releasing Zune any day now. Personally I have no plan to give up my Apple iPod just yet – although the bigger screen looks pretty nice. I’m on my 3rd iPod now – a black video 60GB iPod. I’ve got iPod adapters for … Continue reading “Microsoft Zune”