In this episode Michael Murphy speaks with MVP and Expert Zone Columnist, Charlie Russel, about what Charlie thinks of Windows Vista.  They talk about Charlie’s involvement in the Vista beta process, 64-bit, and new security enhancements in Windows Vista. Participants:   Aurora…

Brian Rush has a program over at The Code Project that exposes the iTunes Library via XML (and XLST), ASP.NET, and AJAX.  It is written in VB.net and uses the Atlas framework ( which is now called the Microsoft AJAX Library ).  It can't stream music yet but one can yearn for that day to…

Cliffy B., is the lead designer of the upcoming triple A title for the XBox 360 "Gears of War". He sits down and chats with me about the Unreal series, Epic Games and of course Gears of War. I hope you enjoy.

Today is the one-year anniversary of Visual Studio Express and we're celebrating by giving registered users new benefits and discounts to partner products including Make Magazine, the Make Controller Kit, CareerBuilder, Intermatic Home Automation Gear, KAM Industries toy software and DevComponents…

In this video we talk with Matthew Scott, a developer on the Word team who takes us through the design and development of the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit, an application that natively reads and writes Word documents saved in the Open XML file format.  This application has been…

I'm back from the FREDDIE Awards in New York City.  I had a wonderful time at the event which was held at the Cipriani on E42nd Street.  It was a star-studded evening and a chance to catch up with a few of my colleagues from the world of television, including CNN anchor Paula Zahn who…

If you're like us, one of the most obnoxious things about living the geek lifestyle is switching between television inputs. Video-1 for the Tivo, Video-2 for the HD content, Video-3 for the Xbox, etc. For the all the happy proliferation of digital toys in our lives, we always end up craving…

It appears that Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is stepping down. The Gates Foundation has billions of dollars to give away and can make quite an impact. The results of their giving has been mixed so far. Of course the results of pretty…

For people that really don't have that much database experience, people may not know what this is or why it is deadly. I was reading Larry O'Brien's website and came across this link about injection attacks and figured it is something that should be shared.  Joel Spolsky wrote a  very…

Introduction Visual Studio 2005 Express is the most comprehensive and full- featured interactive development environment (IDE) released to date. As part of the product mix, Microsoft has announced a series of Express editions, which make this power available to anyone for almost no investment. In…