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 ...

It's really hard for me to believe that 2006 has come and gone. All the things that I was able to accomplish and all the hard work. It's amazing that it was just 14 months ago that I became the President of Tulsa .NET Users Group when then President Caleb Jenkins, who had done so much for the group, relocated to Dallas to ...

As the President of the TulsaDevelopers.NET group I have made great effort to get presentations from others. I definitely don't want the group to become the David Walker show. That's why when I first started giving my Introduction to Programming Windows Communication Foundation almost a year ago, I did so as a guest at other regional User ...

Dan Wahlin, an ASP.NET and XML guru and friend of min, just released a song called No More DLL Hell which you can download as an MP3 and listen to.  If you’ve had any experience in the COM world, you’ll appreciate this song.  You’ll find the lyrics and download here.

I just got back from visiting the Vermont .NET Users Group today. The flight out this morning was early and I mean early! 6:00 AM which meant I had a wake up call at 4:15 AM, giving me about 3.5 hours of sleep. I rolled into the office about 1:30 PM-ish and then when I got home jumped back into chapter 8 of a 12-chapter SQL Server 2005 Reporting ...

Raymond Lewallen: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallenBuilding strongly-typed session objects, cache objects, and viewstate. If you aren't using a session management object you must. Do a search for session[] and make your developers give a justifiable business reason they need to use something outside of the project's session object ...

Just a few more days until my June 3rd presentation Introduction to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the WichitaDevelopers.NET Code Camp!I am ready to go, except WCF is being a pain in the butt trying to get a few things to work for my code demo pieces right now. So I am in the middle of rebuilding my Virtual PC from ...

Sunday, April 23, 12:55 PM. Nice, France. Just arrived in Nice. We flew out at 8:30 AM on Saturday from Seattle through NY and Zurich and arrived a couple of hours ago. Of course, our luggage did not arrive with us (suprise, suprise). Last minute packing and getting things together Friday night got me about 3 hours of sleep Friday and a few ...

Man, there's been so much stuff going on, since my last blog! We went on vacation to Galveston Island, TX right and returned the weekend before Hurricane Rita - whew that was close! I've been trying to play catch up on home work for the Tulsa Community College Micro-Economics internet course I'm taking. The amount of home work is crazy. We've ...

Steven Smith posted this very intelligent article: Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking.But do take heed to his warning! Just a couple years ago I was working for a ''Manager'' who called me into his office and was very upset that I had posted my resume on Monster.com.Even after I explained to him that my resume had been on there for a long time ...