FrazzledDad

Quick Solutions , the great company I work for, has a significant number of openings for sharp folks in the Java domain. We're looking f...

Mentors are an awfully important part of one's growth in any aspect of your life: personal, professional, community.  I've been luck...

Jeff Blankenburg   and a few other community folks are scrambling around trying to get a .NET University organized for 20 September.  Time a...

I hate technical debt.  Kludgy code, architectural things which looked good then but look like poo now, overly complex or "tricky"...

Troubleshooting and/or debugging is a large part of our job as geeks.  Bad code, misbehaving apps, finicky servers, we have to juggle all th...

Hamilton Verissimo , founder of the Castle Project with all its amazing goodness, will be joining Microsoft as a PM for the Managed Extensi...

I am so tired of hearing the hyperbole coming out of some folks in the .NET community who are far too wrapped up in themselves.  Yeah, Bell...

Problem: Your entities aren't loading up their ID properties when you do a find/read/whatever.  Other values for the entities load fine...

I got a copy of Amr Elssamadisy's Agile Adoption Patterns in the mail today.  I'm excited to have received this for two reasons.  0...

The guys at SlickEdit make a great set of tools for devs, both standalone and VS plugins.  Scott Hackett wrote a really interesting post on...

Problem: The Virtual Server admin page ( :1024/VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe">http://<hostname>:1024/VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe ...

Today I ran into 404.3 errors when trying to hit a .svc file on my recently re-imaged system.  I beat my head against my console chasing IIS...

I'm re-reading a few of my favorite older blog posts and reading a few new ones.  A couple great articles are worth passing on links to:...

C# in Depth by Jon Skeet, pub. Manning Press, ISBN 1933988363. This book is a tremendous work for understanding how the most importan...

A nasty bug slipped through the cracks in VS2008's test execution engine.  The problem is rooted in the whole test deployment concept in...

I'm working through a few minor nits with a moderately sized solution (23 projects) that I've just converted from VS2005 to VS2008. ...

Bill Wagner's Effective C# is one of the books you absolutely need to have living on your bookshelf if you're working in .NET. Bill...

Tim whacked me with his post , so here goes. How old were you when you started programming? High school, 1979.  Age of 16 or so.  Radio ...

Mike Wood and the gang at the Cincinnati .NET User Group are putting on an XNA and Robotics Studio event on 19 June at 6pm.  The event will...

The folks at SlickEdit provided copies of their cool Visual Studio tools to folks like myself who are members of The Lounge . Being a to...