I am retiring this blog and replacing it with two new blogs:My technical blog will cover .NET, SQL Server, etc. and will be hosted on asp.net. My personal blog will cover triathlons, running, family, etc. and be hosted on blogspot.com.Thanks aspadvice.com! Paul

I attended Techdays 2009 at Helsinki on 5th of March. It was the biggest MS event in Finland so far, measured purely by the number of audience. I had the honor to participate on Thursday and sit down and chat with many well-known experts like Peli de Halleux, Scott Galloway as well as hang around at ...

My MVP award was renewed. Honest thanks to MS. "Dear Teemu Keiski, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary ...

Yesterday we updated ASPAdvice.com to Community Server 2.0.  So far it seems to be a lot nicer.  Please let me know if you have any problems with the new site.

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 ...

My DE, Drew Robbins, talked to be about the Regional Director program back in May, and asked if I would be interested.  One thing led to another, and a few weeks ago I submitted a stack of legal documents back to Microsoft which eventually led to the great and wonderful accomplishment of... my name appearing on this web ...

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, ...

I'm at ASP.NET Connections in Orlando this week, promoting DevAdvice with my wife Michelle, our daughter Ilyana, and David Gottlieb, who has been doing a lot of dev work for the site.  I've uploaded the first couple of days' pictures to a gallery here.  Update: David Gottlieb has some more pictures here.  I'll be adding more to my ...

After some testing (thanks DonXML), I feel the syndication compression for .Text is ready. However, if you have any issues, please email me at jjulian2@mac.com. I have included the source, binaries, and compiled changes from the latest release of .Text. I have been very impressed with the HttpCompressionModule integrated into .Text. My ...