As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal.  Google has long been known for their creative variations of their logo in response to various holidays throughout the year.  This year, at least one ...

We've done some design work on the Regular Expression Library, and cleaned up the code base significantly to get rid of some cruft and fix a few bugs.  The site gets a surprisingly large amount of traffic, considering how esoteric a topic regular expressions are, and hopefully the new design will make it that much easier for people to search ...

I attended the Cleveland .NET SIG last night, where Jeff Blankenburg (my new Developer Evangelist) gave a demo-rich presentation on some cool new(ish) applications Microsoft has been working on this year.  Most of them I'd already seen, but it was a good presentation and parts of it were new to me (like the Seadragon Video), and the audience ...

A couple of days later than expected, but the bits are available now as Brad Abrams announced a little while ago.  Read his post for all the goodies, or just Download, Get Started, and Discuss

Microsoft PDC 2008 will be held October 27-30 in Los Angeles.  Mark your calendar and check out the site.

Yesterday, Microsoft released a CTP for Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008.  I don't use these in my own projects, having built a robust system that revolves around CruiseControl.NET and PyroBatchFTP, but it sounds like they have fixed some of the pain points with the new release, which has these new features: Full migration ...

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 is now available to MSDN Subscribers (a fact which is apparently well known, since the server seems to be suffering from the load).  Anyway, when the load on the servers reaches an equilibrium, you should be able to pick up the new VS2008 - amazing that you can do so while it's still 2007, since it seems like ...

Here's some official information on the MIX 2008 conference hosted by Microsoft in Las Vegas next March: Registration for Microsoft’s MIX08 opened on Thursday, November 8th.  Slated for March 5- 7 at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, MIX08 is the event for professionals in the consumer Web space – Web developers, designers, ...

It's official now - Microsoft has announced that it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 later his month, November 2007.  The announcement came earlier today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain.  I expect a similar announcement will be made this week during the keynotes for DevConnections.  You can read the ...

The Fall 2007 DevConnections conference is next week in Las Vegas.  This is definitely going to be the biggest conference in the United States for developers for the second half of 2007 (TechEd being the only larger one this year, I think), and I'm sure the show will be bolstered significantly due to a lack of a PDC event this year.  ...