I'm in Redmond for a few days teaching two days of advanced ASP.NET, followed by a day of ASP.NET AJAX and a day of Silverlight (the first Silverlight course offered here at Microsoft internally). The weather is cold and rainy and I'm fighting off an Read More...

I put together a short video with highlights of a recent trip to Chattanooga for some jet flying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fvjva6EPE The runway's a little bumpy (you can see the nose wheel hop a time or two just before take-off), but its 600-foot Read More...

Last night I put the finishing touches on my March 2008 Wicked Code column for MSDN Magazine. Titled "Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Developing Silverlight 1.0 Applications," it offers up an assortment of—surprise!—tips, tricks, and best practices Read More...

It's been a long but wonderful day. I've been heads down all week building Silverlight content and writing a Silverlight best practices piece for MSDN Magazine. This afternoon my wife went to the mailbox and handed me an envelope from the AMA. In it was Read More...

I shot about an hour of video at the jet rally this weekend and condensed it into 5 minutes of pure turbine fun. I encoded the video with Expression Encoder and uploaded it to the Silverlight Streaming Web site so everyone can enjoy it. I squeezed the Read More...

Last Thursday morning, I got up bright and early and headed south for the Florida International Jet Rally in Lake Wales, FL. The goal was to get more stick time on my jet and to earn my turbine waiver—that magic piece of paper that allows you to fly model Read More...