Col. Jessup on the .NET Performance Team

This is fabulous! Let me give you a taste: “We use words like L2, swaps, and working set. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent...

Q: What is “funding the clubbing of baby seals?”

A: The reason I gave for wanting to cancel an extra credit card. I bet they don’t have that reason in their script! : )...

Career Path for Developers?

“Pete” email me the following questions: “I’m a senior software developer, age 34, specializing in C# development for Windows Forms / ASP.Net,...

@this freaked me out

I saw code that looked like this today: class Class1 { static void Foo(object @this) { Console.WriteLine(@this); } static void Main(string[]...

More Skype Love

I was chatting with Mike in Australia today and we pulled up Skype as we usually do, ’cuz it just works, e.g. no connection problems, no...

Realistic Conference Expectations

I was chatting today with a friend that complained that he didn’t get any deep technical knowledge from a conference talk. I said that he had...

IanG Interview on ServerSide.NET

See IanG, my Avalon book co-author in crime, talk with Ted Neward about WinForms, Avalon and .NET. Nicely done...

Every PC Should Have A Camera, Mic + Stylus

I’ve been doing a lot of remote collaborative communications over the last decade. Email, IM and phone calls literally enable me to be an effective...