Why aren’t Windows settings stored in %HOMEPATH%?

Normally, this is the kind of question I’d pose and then provide an answer, but this time I just don’t have one. If my Word settings were stored in...

I had to load FireFox on my machine yesterday

In general, IE7 more than meets my needs. It shows me the web pages I want and it works well. However, there is one killer feature that FireFox has...

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, LINQPad and Pure Genius

I absolutely love what the Albahari brothers (Joe & Ben) have done with C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. Not only is their prose concise in a way that mine is...

Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review

I’ve posted about ebooks before (e.g. I Hate Books). It sounds like the Amazon Kindle has some real potential. All we need is a product with enough...

Visual Studio 2008 Has Been Released!

From the Visual Studio home page: Learn more about Visual Studio 2008 MSDN Subscribers: Get Visual Studio 2008 Download Trial Editions of Visual...

My Team is Hiring and We Need YOU!

As Don Box, Chris Anderson and Doug Purdy have mentioned, my team is hiring. We use agile methods and “everyone shovels,” i.e. everyone designs,...

Free copies of “Programming WPF” for YOU!

I just got a box full of free copies of Programming WPF from ORA. If you want one, post a comment on this post with a) a reason why you deserve one...

Volunteering as Christmas Present?

When I was a kid, Christmas was my favorite holiday because my entire family (grandparents, parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles) would get...