Posted my Annual Free Software Advice last December and despite a wild year in Microsoft development technologies, I don’t have a major updates to this list other than:

Vista is a solid OS now. It will take more resources then XP and will take you a while to get use to it, but I don’t know […]

Gmail is a nice web based email system, and Google Search is my default search engine (though I do like live.com for its stunning images), but has ZDNet’s editorial staff simply been replace by Google Adwords? Are there suddenly no other web technology companies in the world to report news about?

A long time ago before the world of Visual Studio’s Integrated Web Server and .NET you had to test web sites a bit more “manually”. Here is one trick that is a somewhat lost art.
If you want to test your web application and/or web service (very handy trick for web services)  for some reason […]

Had a great day on Saturday learning new skills and mingling with my peers at the Tallahassee Code camp. Thank you Capitol City .NET User Group for putting on such a great program.
I hope to work with you soon to get some speakers over to your user group and to bring in you presenters as […]

We use a custom exception handler which utilizes the MS Enterprise Library Exception Block. I recently had an ASP.NET page I was testing that failed a test and I received “Inaccessible logs: Security Error” message.
Problem:
Root problem is the first time a ASP.Net application attempts to write to the Event Log an exception type for […]

Just a quick pass through to the original blog article on the SharePoint team’s blog.
Read the article here.

Thank you Keith Brooks for contributing to this article.
If you have ever tried to capture exceptions in your codebehind and display friendly messges the users using Microsoft’s AJAX toolkit, you may find the very simple idea becomes complicated very quickly. I ran into this when I had some projects that I wanted to AJAX’ify by […]

I have seen both great technically savy developers and great managers fail at being a Technical Lead on software development projects. It seems of takes a special personality, skill set, and drive to take ownership of a project in this special capacity.
A former co-worker of mine sent me the following link to a great article […]

Note: I’m less sleepy and much more patient today, so now I’m correcting this blog entry.
This evening I was setting up a new instance of MOSS (Microsoft Office Share Point Server 2007) and ran into a error during installation. The installer would almost immediately display the following message and show a simple ‘Close’ button. Obviously […]

In no particular order:

Microsoft SharePoint
Linq
Microsoft Workflow
Microsoft Team Systems
Silverlight
Windows Communication Foundation
MVC/Rest Web Services
Twitter

Over the next couple posts I plan on going into each in greater detail.