Those of you who know me personally know how thoroughly sick of South Carolina -- and its tourism officials and politicians -- I am at present. Someone sent me something...

If you saw your subscriber count drop precipitously in your Saturday, November 3rd summary from FeedBurner, the reason is that specific subscriber stats from Google...

Things here in the Desktop Team have been very, very hectic lately as we approach Kestrel Beta 2. The good news it that the wait is almost over. :up: Introduced in this...

A while back I reported both through my weblog and Microsoft Connect what I thought was a serious flaw in the WPF validation infrastructure for ValidationRule and...

I hope one day to attend a TED conference. It's highly unlikely given that attendance is by invitation only, but a guy can dream. In the meantime, I thoroughly enjoy...

Filed in Assorted Goodness: CSS Hacks and Issues has some interesting suggestions for when you're in a pinch. The reason I'm posting it here is for tip number 4 --...

Some customers have reported issues with vcvars32.bat in VS2008 after installing the Windows Server 2008 SDK. Karin Meier from the WinSDK Team just posted a...

When I was a kid, I was a Marvel comic book fanatic, but no superhero held my fascination like Spiderman. I horded Spidey issues. I drew pictures of him. My family has...

One thing that many entrepreneurs don't fully appreciate is just how much the financial and organizational dynamics within a VC fund can affect how a VC behaves on their...

APEX validations allow a server-side validation to occur for a number of different conditions - item not null, item is numeric/alphanumeric, regular expressions, etc. ...

Computer users work with many different file formats, some of which were created as generic standards and some of which were created by companies for their own...

About a month ago, I was mulling over an issue, and thought I had a fairly decent idea to fix it. I was wondering how to pass on information about my "online life" to my...

Martin Kliehm and I have proposed a panel called, Get Rich, But Remain Accessible, for this year's SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival. Vote for our panel, and help...

Together, they can save and waste an amazing amount of time! I finally broke down today and got an iPhone. Thanks to the fanboys and marketing hype, it is still...

I just attended Josh Bloch's preentation at JavaPolis, where he asks the community whether they want Java to support function types, or if they'd prefer that people...

I’ve just launched a new blog over on eWeek.com at http://blogs.eweek.com/newsgang/. In addition to writing the blog, I’ll be working with Ziff Davis...

So what do you think? Will IE8 use the CLR implementation of the JScript engine or keep on using the legacy ActiveScript engine architecture that is plagued with COM...

Final steps Ok this part has been harder. The technicality of a user registration and everything that goes with it is nowhere near simple. Security measures, hacking...

The php|architect Stuff... I mean, Staff writes: Seasons greetings everyone! The first of two surprises from us today is a great opportunity to combine our recent drop of...

We all think our problems are the most important problems in the world. It amazes me how a lot of people seem to get caught up in their everyday activities, so much so...