After receiving my bonus in December, I made a very conscious choice to buy my first Mac. Granted, I’ve been an early adopter of some Apple products before (the first-gen iPod, the iPad). But to embrace the possibility of switching to Mac OS X for personal use was a step I had always refused to [...]

My work sent me to Microsoft MIX 2011 in Las Vegas this week. For those who don’t know, MIX is a conference for web developers who code on the .NET stack (ASP, WCF, OData). There were a number of interesting subjects covered over the course of 72 hours but on the whole, the conference was [...]

I’m going to take a little break from the travel posts to plug a library I had been working on for a couple weeks and is now released on CodePlex. What is the GString Formatter? The Global String Formatter library allows developers to deal with conditional string formatting in an elegant fashion. Developers specify a [...]