Jim Becher, a good friend and co-worker, has just released version 2 of IISReporter, a great tool for anyone who wants to be able to monitor their IIS servers. He hooked me up with a copy, and I was able to monitor the traffic over at Tourneytopia.com du… more »

Scott Watermasysk comes up with another great tips article?- this time about caching. All of the tips are great, but there are a couple that stand out. First, he talks about VaryByCustom, allowing you to basically set a custom key for your cache (so you… more »

Steve Rowe has a humorous graphic about where developers feel they stand in the programmer Holy War. My background is in C++ and my preferred language is C#, so I'm sitting among the most arrogant groups. Ask my team, and I'm sure they'll agree it's app… more »

We have a pretty major release going out tomorrow, so the past two to three days have been spent working on fixing bugs and getting the software solidified for the release. I think I've heard the above statement at least a couple of times (I probably ev… more »

From my four year old the other night: "I'm going to count backwards in English. Uno, Dos, Tres, Quacko, Chico, Thursday" She can count - she had just finished counting to 20. I have no idea where that came from though! ? more »

I don't know why, but this fascinates me. I want to know more! more »

We usually plan a couple of hours to get the brackets entered into Tourneytopia.com, but we always hope it doesn't take that long. And that's the case this year too. If you've got a pool over there, you're all set to take entries, and if you don't, it's… more »

The other day, I had an email exchange about the virtues of virtualization, of which I am a huge fan. He asked about performance and our plan to upgrade all of our developer laptops to 2GB of RAM. My response was that was a good start, but I felt that 4G… more »

I've been working with dynamically adding controls and server controls for three or four years now, but I've never really thought about how the page life cycle works for controls that are dynamically added - even though that's pretty much how my custom c… more »

I just got confirmation that I'll be at MIX07 at the end of April. If you're going to be there too, let me know, and maybe we can meet up for a drink or something. It should be a good time, and I'm looking forward to it. The last major conference I went… more »