InformIT has just published an interview with me where they asked me a bunch of questions related to C# 4.0 How-To. We got into the multicore future, Internet versus books, why C# programmers need to know about UAC, and a lot more. Check it out!
Working on Bing.com for the last 9 months or so has been exhilarating. Finally, we can show the world the great stuff we’ve been doing. Here is (I think) the first TV commercial about Bing.com, running as of today. I kissed Google goodbye more than a year ago and haven’t looked back. I think once [...]
I’ve been meaning to highlight a few of the cool things we’re doing in Live Search. I don’t have any direct involvement in the development of any of these—I just think they’re cool. Answer Suggestions for IE8 IE8 is awesome, so go get it. Live Search has these things called Instant Answers where it can [...]
NDepend is a tool I’d heard about for years, but had yet to really dive into recently. Thanks to the good folks developing it, I was able to try out a copy and have been analyzing my own projects with it. Here’s a brief run-down of my initial experience with it. Installation There is no [...]
I just read all about Google Chrome, their new open-source browser, in the comic they put out. No download link at this time, but I’m sure it’s coming. My initial thoughts: The Good The JavaScript changes seems to make sense. The better garbage collector and speed improvements can’t hurt. The free API to download lists [...]
My soon-to-be-old-company just announced a deal to give exclusive imagery to my-soon-to-be-rival. Sweet! I am a little disappointed Microsoft didn’t get it, but I don’t know any details of how the deal happened. The GeoEye-1 satellite will be the highest quality commercial satellite out there when it launches next week. I am a little sad [...]
If you are in the DC area, you must attend the BrickFair LEGO convention on its public days this weekend. The models here will be amazing. There will be over 12,000 sq ft of convention space. Bring the kids. If you don’t have kids, bring yourself–it will be worth it. I was going to enter [...]
I’m currently building a large-scale LEGO model of the Space Shuttle, and in order to get some detailed shots of a shuttle that are hard to find on the Internet, I visited the nearby Air & Space museum in Chantilly, VA. You can find the photos on flickr.
http://xkcd.com/442/ AND I love the Discovery Channel commercial.
Leticia has been interested in getting us involved more in the community so she’s been hunting around for local service opportunities. She finally found a great program in our area that I thought I’d share for anybody looking for volunteer experiences in the DC metro region. Fairfax City runs a division called Volunteer Fairfax that [...]
