Brad Covell, a coworker of mine, has a post about making Virtual Servers the easy way - use Ghost! Great tip, Brad. And best of all, if you have problems, he'll help you! more »

It looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't use the design time support of Visual Studio. I've been burned too many times by the designer changing my code. And I'm still getting burned by it because some of my team members use it, and it screws up my… more »

The Commerce Server team has finally released a production ready starter site. And the site seems to sell it as just that - a starter site. From what I've seen in the past (and the way it seems to come across to customers) the Retail site was pegged as a… more »

Every now and then, I have a need to remove a server control from a page. Before, I either set it to be invisible, but that sometimes has side effects. So then I would remove it, but that also had it's downsides. So that's why it was nice to see Jeffrey… more »

It looks like there's another solution to voicemail for Skype. According to the Geek Guy, it's still a little buggy. It's still a beta, so that's to be expected. UPDATE: David Newberger (The Geek Guy) asked me to update my link to his new blog. more »

If you've never read Mark Cuban's blog, you should. Even if you don't like the NBA, you'll still get something out of it. He talks about business, the NBA (he recently got fined for something on his blog), HDTV, and even Donald Trump (who he doesn't seem… more »

First, NAnt has reached release candidate 1 for version .85. Here's the release notes. Quite a bit has changed! NAntContrib (NAnt's "feature pack") also hit RC1, which makes sense, since they are used in conjunction with each other. And in case this is t… more »

As promised, here's my week 11 pick review. Sorry it took so long to get it up here. St. Louis 17 (-1.5) vs. Buffalo: Ouch. How does a team in the playoff hunt (a division win is very important in the West - where losing the division most likely means… more »

I'll get my week 11 review up next, but I'm tired and have 1500 unread blogs to read, so I want to make sure I get this out first. I already posted the Thanksgiving game picks (and was right on both!), so those aren't included.Baltimore vs. New England (… more »

Ok. Before you start flaming me, let me explain. I don't think this, but that's what an external vendor a client of ours said to our client today, so it must be true, right? The client called me today after he got off the phone to tell me about his conv… more »