I'm excited to be taking part in my first Give Camp this weekend. Over 80 developers are getting together to donate a weekend of coding to 19 charities and non-profits who need our help. But we could still use a few more folks to help out, so if you're free this weekend please consider joining... [More]

Many thanks again to Telerik for inviting me to take part in the kick-off webinar for their Q1 2010 release. I had a lot of fun and was pleased to get to show off some of my favorite features in the new release. If you missed the webinar, it’s already up on Telerik TV so be sure to check it out. For... [More]

That’s right, Telerik was kind enough to extend an invite to me (and other fellow Telerik MVPs) to help co-host a webinar this week. I have the good fortune of sharing the virtual stage with Todd Anglin, Telerik’s Chief Evangelist (and my old boss!), to kick off another exciting release week with... [More]

I do a lot of database development, so I have several SQL Server and Oracle instances running on my system at any given time. Tonight I wanted to remove an instance of SQL Server that I installed a few weeks ago, but didn’t want to remove SQL Server in its entirety because I have other instances run... [More]

I’m often confronted with the need to take a collection of values and transform them into a different set of values. For example, I want to use Twitter’s search API to get a list of tweets on a certain topic. However, I am only interested in retrieving the URLs to the home pages of each ... [More]