We've all done it, someone IM's us something and we reply LOL, or LMAO, or ROTFLMAO... maybe even the rare HCTISDFTIJPM*... but rarely is it true. I just saw Phil mention that Scott Adams posted …

First on naming conventions...Recently a series of posts caught my eye ( via Bil) on Coding in an Igloo that went on and on about code naming conventions. This guy looked at the various naming …

Earlier today, DevExpress posted the 2.0.4 build of CodeRush (and Refactor! Pro). Those of us who've been waiting for the training... err... CodeRush tool window but haven't been able to use it due …

Windows SharePoint Services v3 has this slick built-in feature (no, not a Feature, a feature... ok... scratch that, let's call it a capability :P) where it will extract the properties of a document …

MOSS Beta 2 Tech Refresh First, as Mary Jo reports, the MOSS 2007 Beta 2 Tech Refresh is right around the corner... hinting it will be available around the August time frame. B2TR will be offered up …

Earlier this week the local user group JAXDUG posted an announcement on our news blog that we're starting a Office Development Special Interest Group (SIG) who's leadership will be shared between …

Two months ago I expressed my public frustration with Linksys after I went through two of their BESFX41 routers and a terrible experience with their customer support. A few weeks back I finally got …

All you folks who attended the Tampa Code Camp this past weekend, don't forget to fill out your session evaluations online at www.codecampevals.com! Yup, notice how there were no paper evals this …

Roy Osherove started a beauty contest for the best Windows Desktop. All you have to do is create an account, login, take a screenshot of your desktop, and upload it to the site. And what's a beauty …

[via Virtual PC Guy's WebLog] Today's laptops have advanced power management features that can dramatically affect the performance of a running virtual machine within VirtualPC (and I'm sure …

Two acquisitions came across my aggregator in the last two days that I didn't notice until this afternoon... both are quite substantial! FeedBurner acquires BlogbeatFeedBurner, the company who's …

Now that the Tampa Code Camp is over and done with, we can start looking forward to another great community event. Time to start pimping my home town code camp! The Jacksonville Code Camp is next …

A few weeks back, I added a short post to my blog discussing how & why Office Web Components (OWC) won't be evolved going forward. Today I noticed that David Gainer of the MSFT Excel 12 blog posted a …

Yesterday I attended the Tampa Code Camp 2006 with two local friends who rode down from Jacksonville with me Friday night: Vinay, and Greg Y. The Tampa crew did a fantastic job putting on the event …

Are you in the business of modifying or customizing the SharePoint 2003 (WSS/SPS) interface? If you are, you'll know it can be quite a challenge even if you are going about it with FrontPage 2003 (if …

After the JAXDUG meeting the other night, I was talking to a few people who said that while they see value in things like DevExpress' CodeRush & Refactor! Pro, many developers won't care about it …

Do you want to try Windows Vista but not on your clean laptop? Yeah, I don't either... but I do want to play with it someday within a virtual machine. Microsoft has made available specific VM …

Microsoft took two of Ted Pattison's articles from MSDN and got John Pierce (a tech writer on the MSFT IW Adoption Group) and smashed it together to create a great overview book for developers on …

As I previously posted, I'm presenting two sessions at the Tampa Code Camp this weekend... one on WCM (mostly one long demo) and one called "Don't be a Tool, Be a Better Developer Through Tools & …

First, thank you to everyone who attended my talk at the JAXDUG meeting last night. I was quite surprised at the turnout with a last minute change in venue (what's up with that Merrill Lynch security? …

Right after I post an update about my talk tomorrow night I got word that the location has changed due to a facility issue at our current meeting location. The new location is at Merrill Lynch in …