Sorry, already promised out all of my 8 invites, so no begging :) I agree with my buddy Rob when he says, "I hope that my dreams are not crushed when I actually start to get to use it." I can't wait to see what kinds of neat things I can do with it! More to come, as I crash into Google Wave

And I don't mean the Diet Coke of Evil (only one calorie, not evil enough). I spent most of today finding out the most stupid of things. All I wanted to do was to create a blasted <img /> tag that had its source attribute set dynamically by XSLT. Seems pretty run-of-the-mill, eh? Here's the XSLT (I've even replaced the xpath with hard-wired text to simplify the scenario): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" extension-element-prefixes=... exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl js dl" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.or...

If there is ever a time to be aware of how powerful your words are, it's now. Jonathan was sitting in his grey fabricated cube, wishing he were anywhere else. It was 9:43 PM on a Tuesday night, and his monitor was spraying that harsh, bluish off-white glow, just as it had been for the past 14 hours. Jonathan was in a foul mood, but it wasn't the long hours that bothered him, as he was accustomed to late nights at the office. He was well-paid, after all, and was grateful for his job. He enjoyed conversations...

I heard someone say, "backwards-engineer a solution" on a conference call today. I think he meant, "reverse-engineer," but it got me thinking about when we pass "backwards-engieneering" off as "forward-thinking." Just food for thought. I may write about this more as my fancy is struck

Deciding whether to implement a new, unproven widget to save in development costs is a lot like deciding whether to call a player who goes all-in on the first hand of a poker game. You may land your cards, but is it really worth it? The way to determine whether or not to take the risk with an unproven widget is a lot like how a professional would assess the scenario I just described. An accomplished poker player knows what each hand is worth, not only in terms of the potential winnings, but in terms...

Because you have to have a sense of humor to do what I do. Otherwise, you'd go putting forehead-shaped dents on all of the flat surfaces your office, and we can't have that. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly why I'm here, and that's why I started this blog - to save your employer money on broken office furniture and computer hardware. I want to personally welcome you to what will become a heaping galvanized bucket-full of knowledge and wisdom regarding SharePoint, ASP.NET, Commerce Server,...