Brian has been actively getting the word out about the Tourney Pool Manager. Hes' doing a good job. There are many free press release services, and he's tapped into a few of them. You can see a couple examples here and here and here. On another note… more »

I'm a little late with an update, but it looks like it's already over. No one picked the champion, and no one picked either of the two guys in the championship to be there. So the pool was over after the quarterfinals today! The year was marked by many u… more »

Mike Clark is posting a question at a time about his interview by Mike Gunderloy (of Coder to Developer fame). The first one is about continuous integration on large projects. Mike G. asks if there is a size limit on CI projects. Mike C. says no, and tur… more »

Scott Mitchell has a pretty good article that gives a nice intro to the Enterprise Library over on 4GuysFromRolla.com. I really need to start playing with this thing! more »

If you've developed any .NET application, you'll probably want to check out this page to see what might break when users use different frameworks, and to see if your software will run on a different framework. more »

This time it's stored procedures versus parameterized queries. Peter DeBetta and Frans Bouma go head to head over on TheServerSide.NET about the pros and cons of each. I'm still on the fence about this one. Lately, I've been falling to the side of pqs,… more »

Brian got our press release for the release of the Tourney Pool Manager into the Great Lakes IT report, and the next day, I saw it in an email, but I wasn't aware the release was online - until I got the Technorati search result tonight. It's online… more »

There's an MSDN event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel tomorrow (Thursday, February 24th, 2005) from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. I would love to attend, but deadlines loom! It looks like a good talk. There's three sessions about Winforms, troubleshooting ASP.NET apps,… more »

The rain in California has extended your chance to win the $25 Best Buy gift certificate! Because the rain has been so heavy in California, they have given the course an extra day to dry. That means the Accenture Match Play tourney won't start until… more »

I don't post much about college basketball. Not because I don't follow it - mainly because I don't have a whole lot to say about it. But I've seen a few things that have piqued my interest lately. Maybe the prospect of talking about it on the radio has m… more »