Alan Cooper visited my house a coupla months ago and in addition to taking the excited Sells brothers and a shaky Tim and me for a ride in his 6-seater prop plane (where he made me fly most of the time, explaining why Tim and I were shaky), he and Tim and I had a mind-blowing conversation the likes of which I've had maybe a dozen times in my life. Tim and I talked about it for weeks afterwards and we're still different because of it, I think. Anyway, a bit of what we talked about that weekend is in Alan's latest piece. Recommended.

Tim Ewald recorded at the Applied XML Developer's Conference on rebuilding MSDN’s internal content management infrastructure using XML from the ground up (part 2 of 2).

Tim Ewald recorded at the Applied XML Developer's Conference on rebuilding MSDN’s internal content management infrastructure using XML from the ground up (part 1 of 2).

This site is cool. It rolls up helpful info on my book, along with blogger mentions. Nice.

"MSBuild is the next generation build engine that delivers scalability and flexibility for the entire range of build scenarios, from the basics to complex build-lab scenarios. Drill into the capabilities of this universal build engine for Visual Studio 'Whidbey' and the 'Longhorn' operating system"

One of my favorite authors speaks out on a controversial topic.

Watch this space.

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