What’s that picture?

In case you were wondering what the picture is in the current banner on this blog, that’s me on a hike in a semi-remote region of Western India (Maharashtra).  Outside of Mumbai, there is a hilltop community named Matheran that has many hiking trails with stunning views of the surrounding area.  Where I am standing [...]

Good Link Summary

I found a fellow Houston developer that posts a great weekly link summary. Rhonda, thanks for the mention, and I hope to meet you at the next .NET User’s Group!
http://rtipton.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/weekly-link-post-24/

Microsoft IT Advisory Council

So I get a lot of email from Microsoft, which is mostly by my own doing since I like to get the download notifications, my company is a gold partner, etc. Recently I received an email inviting me to fill out an application to join the Microsoft IT Advisory Council.   A while later I [...]

VSS and CruiseControl.NET

Recently, a respected member of the .NET community asked for some “gotchas” when using SourceSafe with CruiseControl.NET. At first, I was thinking, “There really aren’t any. It is working fine for us” however when thinking back on the setup of the current infrastructure I recall there was some tweaking necessary to get things [...]

Houston TechFest 2007 — Is this thing on?

The Houston TechFest has come and gone in a flurry of activity that I would say was widely regarded as a success. There were, of course, a few v1.0 type glitches as to be expected from an inaugural event as large as this one. Nonetheless, for an event of this size to be coordinated so [...]

Dinner with Brad Abrams

Last night I attended an event that Chris Koenig organized for all of the speakers at the 1st annual Houston TechFest.  We met up at the Armadillo Palace (Goode Company’s bar) to meet and exchange thoughts and ideas about the conference.  It was great to meet Brad, who was been a key contibuter to the [...]

Google Developer Podcast

I recently stumbled across a great new podcast that the Java Posse started putting out in June. I wasn’t familiar with the group, but it is a group of people from Googlespace (I am guessing they develop in Java ) that are seasoned podcasters and have now started one to communicate the [...]