Rob Eberhardt's Corporate-vs-Consultant post has prompted me to talk about my experience with self-employment vs. employment. I did the self-employment thing from 1999 to 2003.  I was single during most of that time, and had no kids.  Then I came to work for Business Integration Group.  BIG was at around... [Read More]

Joel posted that Copilot is now free on weekends.  He's not kidding and there's no catch. I haven't used this tool yet, but I'm sure I will find a reason to now that it's free on the weekends.  This is when I'd most likely be helping someone with a problem... [Read More]

Check out David Yardy's post that shows a chat we had about Silverlight.

Over time, I've found that I use Subversion in more and more ways.  Slapping 'My Documents' into a repository was cool; but then putting my IM chat logs in a repository was even better.  That let me merge chat logs from work and home and use Google Desktop at work... [Read More]

I worked more last night on my ASP.NET MVC project.  Second time sitting down to work on it.  I spent the evening dealing with ViewData, trying to find the best way to wrap everything the UI needs into a nice ViewData object.  The night didn't end well. As I mentioned,... [Read More]