We have a new intern starting with us at Lake Quincy Media today, and in the course of getting him set up, I thought I would mention of a few products we're using that work quite well for us here.  The first one relates to training new interns with limited real world programming experience (Kent State University doesn't do us any favors here ...

Some of you may know that I'm pretty interested in caching as a means to improving performance.  I also try to tell everybody that will listen that the default method of accessing the ASP.NET cache, as taught in most online tutorials and courses, is wrong.  I blogged about the proper caching pattern a while ago, and it's helped others ...

I was lucky enough to attend a few Birds of a Feather sessions at PDC05, including one hosted by Julia Lerman on Going Solo.  At many of these, the time goes by very quickly and many of the attendees have additional questions for the host or for one another that must go unanswered.  Further communication is usually limited to a few ...