DotNetOpenId: What’s coming
I’ve been contributing heavily to the open source DotNetOpenId project for the past few weeks. It’s been pretty stagnant for the past year or so and people were complaining. I…
How to add OpenID support to BlogEngine.NET
Although the author of BlogEngine.NET didn’t accept a patch from me to add OpenID support to his open-source blog engine a few months ago, it’s really easy for you to…
New job with Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem
I have accepted a new position within Microsoft with the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team. Rather than working on the .NET Compact Framework I will be working on "VS10". …
How did Schneier hack my Google Reader?
Somehow the "Schneier on Security" blog feed was injected into my Google Reader environment. I have never heard of this guy, and I certainly don’t have his feed in my…
Looking for a new job
Some internal changes here at Microsoft finds me looking for a new job. I am focusing my search on jobs still here at Microsoft, but I guess I need to…
Silverlight Slideshow control
I’ve been looking to change out my Flash-based slide shows that appear on my personal blog with a Silverlight-based slide show control. A quick Internet search revealed First Floor’s Silverlight…
Verizon DSL redirects bad URL requests
I use Verizon DSL. Verizon just activated a service that gets their DNS server to lie in response to requests for non-existent domain names. Instead of returning a "domain not…
Visual Studio 2008 RTM today
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is done, and can be downloaded today to MSDN Professional subscribers. See a previous post for some of the most exciting features of this new release.
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to ship this month
In a press release today, Microsoft announced it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 this month. This is a truly remarkable landmark release. My favorite new features…
WPF Gmail clone: end of the road
Due to patent and copyright concerns and trying to avoid any trouble from Google, I cannot release the source code to the WPF Gmail clone sample. I have decided instead…