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Hello all! Its been a good year overall, despite the fact that I was laid off from Land America due to the economic conditions in the real estate market and the ripple effect it has had on companies like Land America. I was laid off two weeks ago, along with 119 other unfortunate souls, most of them IT professionals. Truthfully it was time to ...

One week and counting to Richmond Code Camp. Im excited.This really going to be a good one. Great great speakers, brand new venue, great presentations, giveaways and lots of cool people to hang around with. In case you haven't registered, here is the link -> The Link When I started out in my programming career (back in the days of COM, ...

When? October 4th, 2008 Where? J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College - Parham Road Campus Please take time to register: ClickToAttend Please take time to take a quick survey: Survey link here  More Info: http://www.richmondcodecamp.org See ya there!  

Hello all! I want to take a few moments to tell you about some really great things happening at INETA. I was talking to David Silverlight the other day about some of the cool programs that INETA is making available to the developer community, namely the Community Champions Award and the Community Excellence Award. The INETA Community ...

Hello everyone! Man I am in love with this cooler weather. I've got a faculty conference coming up this week for ECPI so I wanted to get this last piece out there. This is part 3 in a 3 part series and should give you a decent overview of customized builds through custom tasks using MSBuild with Visual Studio (2005 I hope) or using TeamBuild ...

This is part 2 of a 3 part series aimed at understanding how to create and implement custom tasks using either MSBuild or TeamBuild. Click here for part 1. The overall presentation was given at the last Richmond .Net Code Camp.  In part 1 we covered how to add MSBuild to the Visual Studio IDE since the default build engine is not ...

Last week I was out getting some R & R and took some time off blogging & technology in general (the only thing I used was my cell phone ). This week has been catch up . I will have part 2 of Task Master ready soon!

 To understand the build process, we must cover a few general points: The default Visual Studio build engine is not MSBuild. For the purposes of this blog, when writing custom tasks we employee either MSBuild or Team Build (build engine that Visual Studio Team Foundation Server  uses). The build uses project files for build ...

Well all I can say is that I am a very lucky guy. Lucky to be passionate about technology. Lucky to be working in the wonderful storm that is .Net and the architecture that surrounds it. Lucky to be in technology at a time when it seems like, in someways, many of the rules we have lived by in past regarding ...