Last week  Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick introduced the Deleting Online Predators Act, which among other things would prevent access by anyone under 18 to social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook from public school and public library computers and networks.BusinessWeek has some…

This week on the MicroISV show features an interview with Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords.  ActiveWords is a very interesting and useful product that launches applications and documents via keyboard strings typed into any application. Buzz talks about some of the highs and lows of being a…

Busted!  I found a video on the xbox website of Laura and Tina hanging out with Major Nelson at E3.Check it out here or all the E3 videos here.

Nigel Watling, InfoCard Technical Evangelist, leads an in depth discussion of how InfoCard works, how it's designed (and why) and how it will evolve in the future(great Going Deep stuff!) with InfoCard chief Architect Arun Nanda and Software Developer Ruchi  Bhargava.

Tommy Tallarico, the legendary pioneer behind music in video games, stops by to talk about some of his Advent Rising tunes and how technology has changed in the video game industry. He'll also give us the scoop on Video Games Live, the innovative video game music concert that rocks out to Halo,…

I thought HealthBlog readers would be interested in a new article I wrote for my House Calls series on Microsoft's Healthcare and Life Sciences site.  It's about new features in the soon-to-be-released Windows Vista operating system that…

Compliance… keeping the rules, conform or be cast out. How do you architect a system to support conformance? What role does the UI play in building conformance systems? These are the questions that my guest on this show Joe Cleaver can answer for us as we discuss the architecture of compliance.…

Mobility is becoming an important part of application development. This falls into either connected or disconnected mobile applications. In this screencast, Thom takes a look at building connected mobile applications using the ASP.NET Mobile Controls with Visual Studio 2005. The Openwave…

Louis Lafreniere has been a developer on the VC++ compiler team for a long time; 15 years, to be exact. Specifically, Louis works on the backend compiler. What's a backend compiler? How's it evolved over the years? Where's it going? Watch and listen. Good stuff.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 builds upon the Web Part infrastructure that was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0. This tutorial demonstrates how to create an ASP.NET Web Part 2.0 project from scratch and to get it up and running within a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.