Jon Box wrote an interesting little piece on open source and the Windows OS. Also see Scoble's rant on How to Hate Microsoft and the f...

Heard about an interesting new mobile-style device from Tiqit . This device runs Windows XP instead of CE and includes wireless connectivity...

Also had an interesting email discussion recently about the distance that Mickey Mantle's famous "565" foot homerun in April o...

I'm teaching a Compact Framework course this week and was reminded that in order for developers to get all the tools Microsoft has relea...

I think this nicely sums up Dusty's failures.

Here is the best piece I've seen on the collapse of the 2003 Cubs. Very well said.

Well, the collapse is complete. I guess it was inevitable but I had a bit of hope until the last out was made. Coming into the series I said...

Here it is, the interference in all its glory: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cubfan1.html

A post on my recent article on the updater application block from Microsoft: "The .NET Application Updater block does provide a fram...

Hard to believe the spectacle I just witnessed. In all my years of watching baseball, that was the worst game I've ever seen. The team l...

Jon Box sent me a link to a nice document comparing ColdFusion to ASP.NET. Very helpful for getting the big picture. Migrating from ColdFu...

Check out the site for our new book due out this month. You can download the code and get the TOC.

Let's hope that the 4-0 win by the Marlins tonight is not the start of a repeat of 1984. I heard on NPR this week that Dennis Eckersely,...

Great Cubs win last night 5-4 to go up 2-1 against the Marlins. I thought Dusty made the right move in leaving Remlinger in there. He looked...

George Will had an excellent column this morning regarding California's recall election. I especially like: "Now this exercise ...

Cardinal fan Jon Box brought this article to my attention. "Without putting too fine a point on it, the Redbirds are taking their...

I just picked up Edmund Morris' The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. I had previously read Theodore Rex about Roosevelt's presidency and ...

I'll have to admit that I was suprised that Arnold actually won, but then again in California anything is possible. Unfortunately, I don...

Both games of the NLCS have been great games to watch for Cubs fans. Even though they took the loss in game 1, they battled back twice to ti...

Some very nice information on performance tuning of a large .NET app that Microsoft runs internally can be found here . Also ran across a ni...