Being the mischievous sort that I am, I am always interested in a creative (yet harmless) prank. A friend of mine, Brian Peek [http://www.brianpeek.com/], is a master at creating interesting hardware based solutions with .NET. Recently he has come up with some great ideas for the holidays such as an

I recently wrote an article for SimpleTalk.com [http://www.simple-talk.com/] titled Gathering RSS Feeds Using Visual Studio and RSS.NET [http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/gathering-rss-feeds-using-visual-studio-and-rss.net/] . The article is now online and available to read. Here is the

<P class=MsoNormal style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto”>Tomorrow in Orlando we are kicking off our inaugral session for the “Practically Done” event series. I will be at the University of Central Florida Campus on August 1st (Wednesday) and on Augu

<P class=MsoNormal style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><FONT face=Calibri size=3>My </FONT><FONT face=Calibri size=3>April 2007 Data Points column</FONT> [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/04/DataPoints/default.aspx]<FONT face=Calibri size=3> has been posted to

As I noted earlier [http://codebetter.com/blogs/john.papa/archive/2007/06/17/ado-net-entity-framework-overview.aspx] , my latest article in MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/07/DataPoints/] was just posted a few days ago. If you visited it early on you might have missed the