I've heavily used different Internet messaging in both the nonprofit and the for profit realms. Being able to quickly chat with developers during a project is a powerful tool. Skype is great because it not only allows you to IM but to talk and to tr...

Here's a great offer from Microsoft.  Although there certainly are moments when I wish MS would behave a little more openly, they've always, always taken great care of their developers.  Their learning programs show signs of rene...

In developing WPF applications developers now have the opportunity to have real control over the color schemes we use. As great as this is we also now have to be able to find that perfect color scheme for our applications. to help us with those uncountabl...

For Christmas I received the book Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg.  I’m about halfway through, and Rosenberg interesting point about specifications.  They are, by definition, specific (or at least they should be).  Developers will write to th...