Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

The last Twitter holdout folds. I ended the good fight and starting tweeting a couple of days ago. It's a vehicle to express my schizophrenic coding life, doing Community Server all-day every-day, but moving in a different direction after hours.  I mostly tweet about Community Server, in other... [More]

It's easy to say a book is a classic, but Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is one of them.  Chasm was originally published in 1991 and is as insightful today as it was 17 years ago.  5 out of 5 stars.  Excerpts from the first 100 pages below.  Many more in the remaining 100 p... [More]

And be a hot woman. My August issue of Wired arrived yesterday. Influenced by the advice of Copyblogger's "How to be Interesting" post I perused the cover story on Julia Allison.  Copyblogger's tip #8 on being interesting was "Show a (half) naked woman."  Other good tips in the post, but ... [More]

Keyvan Nayyeri's Task Scheduler Application is taking shape with working Beta 1 source on CodePlex.  The K-Man discusses the release here. The solution contains a Website Project and Abidar class library as shown here. Keyvan includes a Clear Cache task in the web project to give you a sampli... [More]

Microsoft Empower for ISVs and Silverlight.  I'm into my second year as a member of Microsoft's Empower for ISVs program.  There are a few requirements, but it is really an excellent service, essentially providing your home-based developer business with an MSDN Premium Subscription for $3... [More]

I was wondering why it was so quiet this week and no one was speaking to me, but now I know the answer. I discovered tonight when I updated my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 on returning from the beach Sunday I forgot to restore an essential Community Server legacy page, my /blog/rss.aspx redirect to ... [More]

Distinctive use of monochrome with complimenting main animated graphic area listing various company products and services. Link to Bittdesign | View all Stylin Sites

Segmented content by area and type.  Subtly sophisticated. Link to Gallery Mar | View all Stylin Sites

Good looking logo and icons. Distinctive site title font.  Like the lighter-colored header and footer with slightly darker content area.  Someone with a great eye and a lot of graphic design skill does this company's design. Link to Panic CandyBar | View all Stylin Sites

Another attractive site in the lighter color range.  Distinctive background patterns. Link to Mikan Design | View all Stylin Sites