I’ve been rereading Joel Spolsky’s “Smart and Gets Things Done”. His writing style is entertaining. I’m not always in 100% agreement with the guy, but who ever agrees 100% with anyone right? However, Joel has a ton of things that are smart, well thought out, and when one pays heed can really help out during... Continue reading →

Here’s a shocking statement for a lot of people in technology and especially outside of technology. “Your money is at greater risk because it isn’t in a cloud.” Here’s another shocker “Your medical information is at greater risk at your on-premises Doctor than if it were stored and protected by access control in the cloud.”... Continue reading →

If you’re into cloud technologies and such, you should swing by the Seattle AWS Group tomorrow after work. Go sign up on the eventbrite site. If you do go, leave a comment and I’ll be sure to introduce myself. Here’s a blurb from the eventbrite site… “Our next meeting is on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010.... Continue reading →

There are multiple phases to a software project. In this blog entry I would like to talk about and discuss (please leave a comment or two) what the basic things are that a software project needs to get started and prospectively move through development and on to a successful deployment. The following is a short... Continue reading →

This is a quick entry just to show how to migrate an existing ASP.NET (or ASP.NET MVC) Web Application to Windows Azure. Make sure you have the Azure Tools SDK installed before stepping through this, otherwise you’ll get an empty project folder and end up with web page in Visual Studio. With your existing solution/project... Continue reading →