Wouldn’t it be cool if you built a middleware piece that could aggregate and expose business data to web portals, office applications like Word and Excel and even to custom business apps? Imagine power users able to search business data like they search documents in SharePoint. These are the…

  As we close out our Scripting month we thought it only appropriate to bring back everyone’s favorites, the Scripting Guys.  Hear what they are up to these days.  Kevin Remde speaks with them about such topics as PowerShell, VBScript, Compute Cluster Server, Windows Remote…

Okay, it's time to get down to business people. I am going to be bringing you a first person perpective of free demos for PC games. In an attempt to make this gaming segment work for you, feel free to offer any suggestions on upcoming free demos you would like me to cover. And when I say…

There's been an awful lot of talk lately around Rory leaving Microsoft. Charles happened to run into him today and interviewed him for Channel 9. So, want to know what's really happening? Tune in.

Installing drivers is sometimes difficult to understand process for users, but getting drivers on to a machine is not as easy as you think, from a developer point of view. In fact, installation is often quite a hard problem for driver developers to get right...Well, Erik Gubitz, SDE, and…

You can also find me at my personal site sampy.com. I have a blog there for more personal matters. I also have a Windows Live Space that should have all of these feeds in one spot for you to check out.

Texas decided the require four years of both math and science. This seems like a good thing and in general I think it is. At the same time it makes it harder for students to find time in their schedules for anything that is does not satisfy requirements for graduation. This leaves computer science…

The Washington Post has a great article about turnitin.com, a company that helpd teachers check student papers to see whether they are plagiarizing.Some students, teachers and administrators have a problem with this, in that they believe it's the equivalent of mandatory drug testing for all…

The joke, really not very funny and generally not true either, is that "Those who can't do - teach. Those who can't teach - teach teachers." But a new report (news article here) claims that American school of education are a mess. Over 60% of teachers claim that their education in…

Thomas Quinn is the Architect for the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office System (code name "Cypress").  TQ discusses the engineering decisions behind the design of the tools.  He explains the decision to create a new base project type that allowed the team to create…