So it has been 30 days since I turned off the cable to the house and started watching nothing but technical content that I could pull from the Internet. A lot of my friends kept waiting for me to move back into my parent's basement since they felt watching so much Tech would turn me into the ultimate nerd. Luckily that did not happen, but I didn't completely watch just technical stuff the whole thirty days. I would say that my daughter put up with it for about two weeks and then she demanded that...

I've decided that there is so many new technologies coming out that I am going to spend the next 30 days watching and listening to nothing but technical podcasts and webcasts. I'm turning off the cable signal and hooking the PC to the 42 inch plasma screen in the living room and start making more productive use of my time. Instead of watching mindless reality TV shows filled with commercials every five minutes I'll get up to speed on the latest coming out of Microsoft, Oracle and Sun. And instead...

Here's a handy tip when you are trying to learn how the components of the Service Factory works. I've found it very useful over the last couple of weeks. Since the Service Factory now gets registered under the Visual Studio Experimental Hive you can configure the solution so you can debug it. If you are familiar with debugging DSLs, this should be nothing new. Just follow the steps below: Set the Service Factory Guidance Package as the Start-Up Project by right-clicking on the project and selecting...