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The double dog dare gets me every time!

The double dog dare gets me every time!

I wondered when some of these pictures from DevLink would surface. Between the dares and doubts of those who said I couldn’t fit into a medium t-shirt - I had to do it. A big “thanks” to Dave Giard for capturing the moment. Check out the guns! I…

One Thought Why Regional Conferences + Open Spaces Rock

I’m still trying to gather my thoughts after attending DevLink this past weekend. One thing that I want to highlight is how great these regional conferences are and how much they are a perfect fit for Open Spaces . [ Much props to Alan Stevens…

Community Server does Am I ___ or Not?

Community Server does Am I ___ or Not?

We’re always working on something cool at Telligent , whether it be an entirely new product or some type of addition or extension to Community Server . Some good examples are some of the things we came up with in Hackathon II, including the…

Lan and Deon 3

Lan and Deon 3

Lan and Deon go to their local .NET User Group meeting…

I like VisualSVN

I like VisualSVN

I’m not a big fan of Source Code Management integration with Visual Studio. I don’t know, maybe VSS soured me years ago. When using Vault in the past I installed the Visual Studio integration tools once and uninstalled them a few days later. While…

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

I recently added membership, accounts, login, etc. to the AspDotNetMVC site. While doing so I decided I wanted to support OpenID, too. However, I didn’t want to go with only OpenID because I needed ASP.NET Membership in place to work in conjunction…

How to use Kigg as a service from other sites

How to use Kigg as a service from other sites

In yesterday’s post I started providing some detail about my use of Kigg to add rating functionality to the AspDotNetMVC site . Because I wanted to integrate the ASP.NET Membership store between the two sites into an external database I started…

How I got started in Software Development

I’ve finally gotten around to answering Michael Eaton’s question: How did you get started in software development? How old were you when you started programming? How did you get started in programming? I think that the first time that I got the…

How to decouple the ASP.NET Membership database from Kigg

How to decouple the ASP.NET Membership database from Kigg

This evening I posted an update to the AspDotNetMVC site that includes allowing voting on the ASP.NET MVC blog posts, buzz, articles and news that the site collects. You can see a page that uses it here: http://aspdotnetmvc.com/blogs . Rather than…

Now with a picture

I finally got around to adding a picture of me to this blog, thanks to some prodding (you know who you are!). After doing so I realized that this theme is getting a little bit crowded and dated. I hate to add to my to-do list but I’m now in search of…