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American political journalism, not only by association, is not held in the highest regard these days.  NBC's Tim Russert, in contrast, and his enthusiasm for the "truth" is a throw-back and considered among the best of modern American journalists. ...

So anyone who's worked on projects with me knows I'm an advocate of using the Enterprise Library for addressing typical cross-cutting application concerns.  Enterprise Library 4.0 was released yesterday which now works with Visual Studio 2008 and...

I broke my arm a couple weeks ago.  No, that's not the reason I've not blogged in a while: I've just been ridiculous busy - no excuse, I need to get on it.  So I came down off the boat in the garage and my feet got caught up in the trailer. ...

So I've had a number of folks ask about Visual Studio 2008 editions recently but quick searches for updated product comparisons, till now, have been fruitless.  Yesterday, though, a colleague of mine at Statêra asked and I finally reached out...

So I always import my standard fonts and colors options for Visual Studio each time I build out a new environment.  I find the defaults a bit straining for all day work.  Today, though, I was installing some developer tools and noticed while...

So I was doing a little research for our Thursday presentation: I wanted to included some information on CRM and it's multi-tenant capabilities.  I found my way to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Blog and in the left navbar I read a headline "CRM...

Next week (Thursday, December 20th) we'll be presenting the ArcReady: Software Plus Services (S+S) Distilled session at the MSDN Power Series Event in Phoenix.  Bennie and I will cover, in some detail, a multi-tenant software + services reference...

This is a list of my must haves: Foxit Reader (I hate Adobe Reader) Beyond Compare ...   Cross posted from my CS Blog at www.footheory.com...

Matt's Tools Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (side-by-side) + - Notepad - CruiseControl.NET - Notepad2 - Rhino Mocks - ReSharper (R#) - Test Driven.NET - SQL Diff - FxCop - SQL Compare - Fiddler -...

It's nagged on me a bit how my last post mentioned only MS products and not those that I deal with after my base install: you know, those developer tools you just can't get along without (R#).  It certainly isn't all that important to that post but...

So I went home Tuesday night with the downloaded RTM bits in hand prepped for a late night install.  The download experience was excellent: it took all of about 10-15 minutes to pull it all down while in the office - couldn't wait.  And I had...

So Rob Bagby sent over an email that stopped me in my tracks titled "VS2008 RTM today".  Well, I intended to spend time with my mother-in-law while she's out this week but sorry Grammy (as the kids call her) - I'm going to be locked in...

We're happy to announce the newest member of the Foo Theory team, Chad Mattox.  He's a friend and former Statera employee who now works for Microsoft Services (MCS) as a SQL Server Premier Fiend Engineer.  Here's a link to his weblog. ...

So, though I had to miss it, reports from Redmond are hitting the wire about the SOA and Business Process Conference.  First, SOA technology roadmaps and press releases for project code-named "Oslo" were announced.  The Oslo technology/product...

So a lot of folks were confused the day news broke on Torre rejecting the Yankees hella-offer.  The father-in-law and I, while on vacation in Sequim Bay, WA, had good times discussing past reports of him being tough and unfair on players (by most...

Holy !@#$! I got a prescription to deal with a sinus infection on Sunday.  So after taking the first dose I had a little bit of what felt like a rush that morning: didn't think much of it as I was a bit under the weather.  That night, though,...

So the new Zune device line-up has been announced and is set to releases for the holiday season.  An 80GB hard-drive based and 8GB and 4GB ultra-portable flash memory models are said to include the same basic feature line-up.  Zune v.Next...

Tim posted something on Facebook recently (I think in the last couple of nights) hinting that some big news was possibly coming: I assumed it would be Microsoft related.  So this morning I looked through my feeds and both Scott Guthrie and Heuer...

Take a look at this file Cross posted from my CS Blog at www.footheory.com...

Should have gotten the word out sooner, of course, but better late than never - right.  Bennie and I've been cramming a bit: it's been an exercise in designing an enterprise .NET 3.x reference architecture in about a week and a half while juggling...

So I went to generate a service proxy using Orcas Beta 2's svcutil.exe and received the following error.  After a quick web search it turns out that the this is a known Beta 2 svcutil.exe bug.  The MSDN forum moderator (LorenzP) describes that...

The WCF Configuration Editor in the right-click menu on WCF Service Host app.config files.  You can, however, wire it up given a quick trick.  From the Tools menu choose WCF SvcConfigEditor and immediately close the editor.  Until...

As a heads-up this post is non-technical and a bit raw but I just had to let it out. Turn away now if you’re turned off by that . The Story With the exception of when in a dessert I absolutely can't stand vanilla smelling stuff: soaps, candles, fill-in-the-blank....

So I've been using Twitter lately not only as a public instant messaging tool but because it also updates my Facebook feeds: do I still need Twitter?  I could simply use Facebook Notes and not be limited to hyper-micro content.  And...

I intended to post about this a couple of months ago and am finally getting around to it.  Good news though - my un-posted solution was already in the pipeline, it seems, and multi-targeting is now "feature complete" .   ...