Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Let's face it, Internet Explorer and Firefox see pages differently.  I normally develop exclusively in Firefox, but the job is never done until the pages look exactly in IE as they appear in Firefox.  And you always get frustrated with the brows... [More]

I've been collecting links to sites with style or have certain aesthetic qualities that set them apart.  Since I do a lot of theming it's also good to have a ready reference to sites that I like.  Bookmarking the sites isn't efficient enough bec... [More]

I was creating a SQL Server 2005 table today in SQL Server Management Studio and went to the bottom pane to create my Identity field like I always do.  I scrolled down, scrolled some more, and selected "yes" from the dropdown to confirm it was indeed... [More]

One of the greatest benefits of using a code generation tool like CodeSmith comes not from generating methods and objects the first time, but when you need to change that code.  Using CodeSmith to regenerate template-based blocks of code is potential... [More]

A CS Forums post from RDCrumbaker who asked how to display all bloggers on a blog home page (my answer is here, btw) got me thinking about the Most Active Users display on the Community Server Forums home page and how to re-purpose that as a "Most Active ... [More]

I've been using a lot of background tasks on one of my Community Server projects and I realized I needed better monitoring data.  I've blogged before about using the Events Log and Exceptions Report to monitor background tasks, but as the tasks begin... [More]

This is one of the VS2005 features that's been around for awhile and doesn't get the love it should, the Active Windows and File Selector Popup.  CTRL-Tab to display a popup like the one shown below to quickly jump to another file or window with a mo... [More]

Clive Thompson wrote a thought-provoking article for the September issue of Wired titled "Your Outboard Brain Knows All."  The focus was on our increasing reliance on the silicon-based devices that expand our intelligence and whether or not that was ... [More]

When you're a freelance developer like myself and not on a salary, you gain a different perspective on career-enhancing expenses like ReMix07 Boston.  On my drive back to Vermont I thought about what I spent out of pocket for the two days of ReMix an... [More]

More good scribblings for ReMix07 Boston Day Two.  Day One notes are here.   Building Silverlight enabled ASP.NET AJAX Controls Using ASP.NET Futures.  asp:XAML and asp:Media controls Embeds ActiveX OBJECT tag, object requires click to inte... [More]