For the most part, I'm an ASP.NET developer. I don't need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it's all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also

I've been experimenting with my diet a little and considering a Paleo diet. What an amazing and selfish thing, though, for me to even consider or be able to change my diet in a fundamental way. Only someone who isn't worried about their next meal could explore that aspect of their lives without fear or concern.

It's been over 5  years since my post how to contribute a patch to an Open Source Project. That post is focused primarily on Subversion as the source control system. If you are using

In August I purchased and reviewed the Microsoft Touch Mouse. I still use

Ok, I like my icons. You arrange your desk perhaps, shuffle papers, I update things with totally unneeded icons. A while back I made, ahem, these awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell icons with

I have a some friends and friendly acquaintances who are of some bit of note. Not Internet-famous, or even blog-famous like me, I mean actual famous. Like us, celebrities still have phones, Twitter accounts, Facebooks, laptops, hard drives, family photos and lots more that need to be managed. Maybe you're f

I did a "Greatest Hits" blog post in 2008, and since this year is winding down I though it was time for another. Here's what I think were my best blog posts this year.

My buddy Jeff Handley tweeted this nugget of brilliance recently. Every year I give the grandparents DVDs with all of our digital pictures from the year. To them it's a gift. To me it's off-site backup.— Jeff Handley (@JeffHandley)

I'm still using the Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 that I built last year. THE most important aspect of that build was not the super-fast processor or the fancy video cards. It was, and con

It's probably not unfair to call me a Twitter Power User. I use it a lot, it's my favorite Social Networking site and I've written a number of reasonably popular articles on the topic. How To Twitter - First Steps

Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy or smile. However, when the success of your product depends on new, possibly inexperienced users successfully downloading and installing it, good UX is the difference between success and failure. I love what Dropbox has done here

A few weeks ago we introduced a beta of a freshly designed http://asp.net website. Today we launched it. Jon, myself, and the team that manages the site took lots of your feedback (lots from the

Everyone collects utilities, and most fol

This is an "updated for Windows 7" version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista. I've got a 256 gig C: drive, but noticed that in the last week o

Yes, I know I'm late in updating my Tools List. I know. Maybe this weekend. Let me tell you about five tools that are so useful, so compelling and so "should have been built into Windows" that I now think of t