The more I talk about SharePoint to customers, the more I end up talking about Office 2007 and, inevitably, The Ribbon. While I enthusiastically show Office 2007 and explain The Ribbon as one of my favorite features (yes I really do love the Ribbon), I have also come to anticipate at least one perso...

Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partnerâ€�, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews focused predominantly on two themes: ho...

Love to see the great reactions to the Windows 7 beta.  I have been running the beta for about a month as my primary machine, and it seems incredibly stable given its beta status.  I LOVE the new taskbar, the window preview is even nicer than Vista’s (and I was pretty jazzed about that f...

Rob Bagby has a great post on creating self-signed certificates for IIS7, including a screencast showing how to walk through the steps. It's not that hard to do, but if you haven't done it before it can be non-trivial....

I've got a buddy who is a very talented musician.  He has talked to several record companies, and they all have the same story:  we would love to sign you, but we just don't have any money to promote you and get you started.  Sales are down, profits are down, and they attribute a larg...

I was there:  PDC 2008, when Windows Azure was announced.  Reactions in the crowd, admittedly, ranged from "great, not even the keynote presenter can pronounce it consistently" to "I expected more pizzazz from the Don and Chris keynote." It's hard to picture, at first, ...

In this post, I will show how to use the Windows Workflow Foundation rules engine to provide business logic for a Dynamic Data Entites Web Application.  We will show how to change business rules without modifying code, drive the application based on a logical entity model, and map the entity mo...

I was surfing around awhile today, and came across David Chou's blog.  He has some widgets on his blog that I thought were interesting, including a Live Messenger window that lets you ping him if he's online.  That caught my attention, but what I thought was even cooler was a drop-down lis...

Could it really, really be? "We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows Vista. "You know it. I know it. It's caused some impact. We're going to start countering it. They tell us it's the iWay or the highway. W...

It's been a long time since I said my phone rocks... three years, in fact, since I actually liked my phone.  Today I bought a phone that made me want to share just how cool it is, the Verizon Wireless Samsung SCH-i760.  Despite the horrifically unmemorable name (nothing like "Chocolate"), ...