They're back! Yes. Ken and Brian reminded me that TechEd is rapidly approaching. Email from Brian reminded me that I will miss seeing them this year in action. Together they have one PreCon session on Sunday: Visual Basic .NET Programming for Visual Basic 6.0 Developers and then Ken is speaking on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Office System: Building Office Solutions Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office on Wednesday and Brian is talking on Developing on Virtual Server 2005 on Thursday....

Last Friday I joined 30 other community members in a volunteer project at Redmond High School. I learned recently that the state of Washington is exploring curriculum development that involves a senior culmination project that every senior would need to do to graduate. The project starts with a briefing during the junior year and wraps up at the end of the year with a formal presentation to be judged by teachers and community members. It’s a brilliant idea teaching high school students how...