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Renewed

Published 1 January 8 7:3 PM | William

Woke up this morning and found the good news. For 5 years running, I am a MVP award recipient. And yes, I *will* be at the Summit this year come h3ll or high water.

Filed under: MVP Stuff

MVP Chat Tonight at Strong Coders

Published 12 January 7 6:31 AM | William

My homie Ryan Olshan and the team at Strong Coders is hosting a public MVP Chat 01.12.07 8:00PM EDT . Although I'll be be a small fish in a big pond over there, Ryan was kind enough to invite me to join in Would love to see you over there.

Filed under: News, MVP Stuff, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Another one down

Published 2 January 7 4:10 AM | William

I was quite fortunate and won the MVP award for this year. It appears my Uber Homie Chris Williams won too. I expect to see a lot more great folks getting renewed or inducted into the program.

Filed under: Life in General, MVP Stuff, Me

A great guy makes MVP

Published 3 July 6 11:56 PM | William

Well, I've seen quite a few of my friends make MVP ( Scott , Chris , Sahil , Tobin , Brian to name just a few) but now I can add one more. . Not only did Marshall get the Microsoft MVP Award , it appears they added a group for Speech Server which is awesome...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff

Another homie of mine just made MVP

Published 14 April 6 5:41 AM | William

Well, looks like another one of my homies just made MVP . Well done Brian!

Filed under: MVP Stuff

Unofficial MVP Handbook now posted

Published 15 January 6 2:27 PM | William

Susan Bradley , who is the MSMVPS.com 'Mom' and kindly hosts this site out of the kindness of her heart has posted the Unofficial MVP Handbook . It's password protected but if you're interested you can get the password in the Coffeehouse or shoot me an...

Filed under: MVP Stuff

Chris Tacke is the Man

Published 19 May 5 1:0 PM | William

Skicow just sent me this SPOT Link from Chris Tacke . I remember the first time I met Chris back at the MVP summit and he was discussing throwing the CLR on a PIC and possibly creating OpenNet.PIC which would be cool indeed. If there's a more impressive...

Filed under: Compact Framework, MVP Stuff

Speech Server, Book Writing, Code Camps and Pimped out rides

Published 24 April 5 1:42 AM | William

For the last week, things have gotten kind of weird in my life. And by most standards, I'm pretty friggin weird to begin with. I stared working with Wally McClure on writing a book and so far, things have been going really well. But so far I've only encountered...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Throwing a bone to the VB6ers

Published 9 April 5 12:1 PM | William

Who said Microsoft doesn't listen to it's customers.

Filed under: MVP Stuff

This years summit is going to rock!

Published 2 April 5 12:27 PM | William

The MVP Summit last year was a total blast and this year it looks like it will again. I haven't been through the entire blog roll so I'm no doubt missing more than a few friends in this list, but first Sahil made it, Frans got renewed and although he...

Filed under: MVP Stuff

Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

Published 2 April 5 10:15 AM | William

Sahil got the MVP Award - Congratulations my Friend!

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Telling the Internet Bad Guys to F-Off

Published 19 March 5 6:33 PM | William

This is hardly hot off of the press news, but I figured it's useful and I'd post it. One way to keep yourself 'safe' while on the net is via your Hosts file. This won't guarantee your safety, but at a minimum it will make your browsing a little less annoying...

Filed under: News, MVP Stuff

Violating NDA and Misc other subjects

Published 14 March 5 3:29 PM | William

This monday marks the third or fourth week I quit drinking (I just remember it was a Monday) and I was hoping that drama in my life would decrease. For the most part, it has (my a-hole moments increase exponentially when i drink). But not really. I posted...

Filed under: MVP Stuff, Me

http://www.everythingado.net

Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Requests for Content

Published 23 January 5 10:40 PM | William

I've finally started to get a little free time these days and I'm going to be doing some quality Travelling in the next few weeks - if you're interested in something in particular, I'm taking requests. Anything ADO.NET, Anything Compact Framework, (Not...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Remoting, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services Best Practices - Atlanta GA

Published 21 January 5 8:24 AM | William

I just got to meet Mark Dunn the other night and really enjoyed talking to him. Looks like he'll be on DNR later this month and he's hosting a Work Shop on SOA in early February

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Eric Rudder - if you're reading this

Published 6 December 4 8:45 PM | William

You are without a Doubt 'The Man'. Yes, Mr. Gates has an infinitely cooler first name - but you rock. Thanks!

Filed under: MVP Stuff