My father's family migrated to America from Italy in the early 1900's. Specifically, they came from the town of Castiglione in Sicilia. I have seen some incredible photos of the volcano that happens to be the next door neighbor to Castiglione , but with today's mapping tools it is pretty

I've been downloading a new set of EAP bits for ReSharper 4 [http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+Builds] once a week since they opened access to the nightly builds and it really its coming together. The latest bits are much more stable than earlier versio

I've been using the EntityBag concept that Danny Simmons has been posting [http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/archive/2008/01/20/entitybag-part-ii-modes-and-constructor.aspx] for a while now. One of the neat aspects of the EntityBag is its automatic mode settings. As I was explaining this to someon

Indiana Jones and I have one thing in common that is undisputable: we hate snakes. This weekend I was cleaning my pool when I noticed a snake head sticking out of the small rock waterfall. It was hanging out inside of the hole where the water flows out. It was about an inch across but only about 2

DevConnections [http://www.devconnections.com/?refer=juliaL] in Orlando is just around the corner and I'll be there presenting 4 sessions on mobile development, the Entity Framework and SQL Server. So much has changed with these technologies in the past few months so I have all new code samples