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As a speaker at this year’s Conference on World Affairs, I was asked to submit several ideas for potential panels. The conference organizers use the suggestions from speakers to come up with the conference program. I’ll find out which panels I’m on only a week or two before the conference. The […]

I gave a talk to STC Carolina back in August titled Writing and Editing Technical Books. I intended to cover what it is like to write and edit technical books based on my experience, but I only got to the writing part because there were so many good questions from the audience. They […]

I found out from a fellow MVP that CodeSmith was giving out free licenses to MVPs. I just installed CodeSmith a couple of weeks ago. I’ve used it to auto-generate .NET and SQL code for a DotNetNuke project I’ve been working on. It is a good tool. Thanks CodeSmith!

I just got an email that I’ve been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP for 2006. The perks are nice which include a free MSDN Universal subscription, a gift certificate at the MS Company store, and a “gift award”. Last year’s gift award was a small USB MP3 player. This year it is […]