This must-see screencast shows you how to find, install, and use Web Deployment projects to make changes to web.config for production builds. The focus here is on modifying database connection strings and dynamic web services URLs in web.config to point to production servers when building a…

Join Laura and I as we take you on a tour of the massive Microsoft booth at E3. We check out a ton of games including Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Justice League, Too Human, Gears of War, and even Viva Piñata! And if that wasn't enough, if you act now you'll get to see Laura doing some weird…

Shari Wilson writes an interesting column on the challenges of being a post-secondary professor -- and compares it with her experiences in industry.This reminds me very much of Horace's Compromise, the classic book by Ted Sizer about a high school teacher's struggle to deal with all the demands of…

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.…