Tomorrow, we're heading into the hospital so my wife can have an amnio to verify that the lungs are developed enough for delivery. If they are, she'll be having a C-Section Friday. If not, it'll be Monday. She'll be 37 weeks and 5 days on Friday. Most ba… more »

Craig Andera has a nice post about building applications, pointing out that you're never building just one. He says that while the goal is to build an application, you have to build auxilary apps to go with it. You need to have tests, a build process, a… more »

A few days ago, Yahoo released their first beta of thier blogging service: Yahoo 360. Tom over at WebFeedCentral was kind enough to send me an invite, and I signed up. Thanks Tom! So far, I'm not terribly impressed. To even view the blog, you have to be… more »

Fanblogs has a post about a new bill in Texas that would bar Texas teams from participating in BCS bowl games. Basically, the bill says teams have to participate in a playoff system to be eligible for post season play. Of course, it's mainly just for sh… more »

Yesterday I posted about a blogging expert who said he doesn't see the point of RSS. Well, today he visited my site, and commented, saying I fell for his bait. He was looking for someone to "expose the truth." His comments were pretty nice, considering m… more »

As part of getting ready for deployment, I cleaned up our sourcesafe database, removing files that were at one point part of our project but no longer are. This allows our automated build process to pick up just the files that should be there. We use Nan… more »

As we near the final days of testing, we're also getting ready for deployment to production. That means all those configuration settings need to be looked at, and adjusted to be production ready. One that I always see is to change the compilation ta… more »

I forget where I saw this, but someone pointed out Steven Streight's blog, where he posts about why he doesn't like RSS. After reading the post, it's pretty obvious it's not that he doesn't like RSS. It's that he doesn't get RSS. He says RSS pushses cont… more »

Tim Haines says you shouldn't develop in the web root. And he gives some advice to get around some of the gotchas with doing it. I agree with Tim. But here's how I set things up. My main development happens in a virtual folder on port 80, as does most o… more »

One more post about religious wars - this time about Keyboards versus Mice. Peter Provost agrees with me. The keyboard is the way to go. I know the keyboard shortcut for just about everything I do in VS.NET. And if it doesn't have a keyboard shortcut, I'… more »