This month marks the launch of a new site we’ve been working on to help recognize and support a number of influential bloggers in the .NET developer community.  Please help me welcome the initial members of the DevMavens!  These bloggers have been invited to be a part of this small but hopefully growing group based on their influence in ...

Lake Quincy Media, the advertising network made up exclusively of .NET developer community web sites, has been undergoing a substantial redesign throughout the month of July.  Well, after a lot of work, the new design was launched yesterday.  The new design is, I think, much more professional and attractive than the one I managed to put ...

I only mentioned the Made In Express Contest a few minutes ago and now I see there is a contest for Microsoft Atlas, their new AJAX / Web 2.0 framework. You have a chance to win an XBOX 360 premium and Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones! What is it? This contest is all about creating awesome Mash-up applications using “Atlas” technology. Nothing ...

Want $10,000?  Microsoft is hosting a contest to promote its Express product set.  Sign up at http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/ You can also download flair to put on your blog if you're interested:

Axosoft is doing a social marketing experiment (blogs, Digg, etc.) where they're selling a $500 copy of their OnTime Small Team (5 users) bug tracker and project management tool for just $5 and donating the proceeds to the American Red Cross. The experiment expires Friday Feb. ...

I've recently received a few emails from a component vendor announcing their new product, which includes this quote: And finally, the component developers have been eagerly awaiting for months…[productname will remain anonymous-ish] is the first-ever collection of a full suite of validation controls with built-in security, for the ASP.NET ...