July 2008 Entries
OK I am trying to get back into ready heavy and bought some new books yesterday. I bought the following books: I thought that maybe a great way to get new book ideas is to leverage the Twitter tribe and get their book reviews they post as Twitter posts. So next Wednesday, I hope people will post to Twitter reviews of the books they are reading or read recently.
Apollo 13 was the third manned lunar-landing mission, part of Project Apollo under NASA in the United States. The crew members were Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module pilot John L. "Jack" Swigert, and Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise. It launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST. Two days after the launch, the Apollo spacecraft was crippled by an explosion, caused by a fault in an oxygen tank. The explosion damaged the Service Module, resulting in a loss of oxygen and electrical power. The crew used the Lunar Module as a “lifeboat” in space. The...
After a 2 week hiatus, Keith and I have a new episode up covering developing .NET software on the Mac. James Avery and Leon Gersing were great guests to discuss all the details and there experiences. I have very little experience using Macs and OSX so I really enjoyed listening to James and Leon talk about their use of virtualization on the Mac. Overall a great listen even if I was not a host. Go here for the show.
Jeff Blankenburg asked people in the community to honor Contribupendence Day and I have answered the call and have the following LinkedIn recommendations Joel Ross I have impressed with Joel's work since the day I started working at NuSoft Solutions (now RCM Technologies). After spending 2 years working with him I find that he is very insightful in developing software as designing the solutions that make the clients happy and productive. If I was to start a new development group, I would begin by adding Joel to lead it. In addition to his work he is...
I never started helping the community years ago to get this award. I am very proud and humble to have been nominated by friends and peers in the .NET community for the MVP award in SQL development and thankful that Microsoft thought I was worthy enough to sit at the same table as all of the other MVP’s. I am a little taken aback to be in the same company as the people I have been reading and following since moving over to .NET development back in 2003. This honor will only intensify my work...