Scott Hanselman is one of my heroes.  His .NET knowledge is tremendous and he's just a really good guy.  He has diabetes, on May 6th he's going to be walking to fight diabetes with Team Hanselman.  The goal is to raise $10,000 for the cause.  If you want to learn more, or learn how you might help, see Scott's post: Team ...

Flew out and spoke to the Fort Worth .NET User Group, led by Stephen Swienton, last week.  There was a pretty good turnout and I thought it went quite well.  I only had one demo that didn't go off as planned and that was a result of my having switched from a Beta 2 VPC to an RTM VPC at sort of the last minute.  The slides and demos ...

So, I'm in Seattle for the MVP Summit and it is a great time to network with a lot of people I haven't seen in quite some time (and many I just saw a couple of weeks ago at PDC...).  They've been having some issues with transportation, so for instance yesterday morning about 100 of us ended up missing the first executive session altogether ...

I'm in Seattle this week for the MVP Summit followed by the ASPInsiders summit.  It's actually the longest I've been away from home since I got back from Iraq, but I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of folks I haven't seen in a couple of years.  I met up with James Shaw at the airport and we had dinner with Jason Gaylord last night at a ...

Sorry, I got busy and didn't post any more daily missives during Tech Ed.  Here's my 'summary' blog post on it. Wednesday I ended up sleeping through my alarm, so I missed ScottGu's first session on what's new with 2.0, but I made it to his second session which was very popular and probably the better of the two, since he said it was much ...

Got up early, which was an accomplishment considering how late I was out with Doug, Stephen, Scott, and Amy Sunday night, and made it to the keynote at 0900.  Steve Ballmer was presenting, assisted by Samantha Bee (from the Daily Show, I think) and a few MS employees.  The keynote was definitely entertaining with some pretty cool ...

Today started off well.  Got up on time, got some breakfast, things were looking good.  Then things started to go wrong.  The garage door opener had shorted out and wouldn't open/close.  I noticed that my flight actually arrived at the connection at 10 something, rather than departing at 10 something as I had thought.  So, ...