Blog Archive 2013 Books Every Software Developer Should Read May 18 2013 PowerShell for Developers - DRY May 12 2013 Agile.NET Houston 2013 May 10 2013 PowerShell for Developers - Functions May 10 2013 PowerShell for Developers - Cmdlets May 08 2013 PowerShell for Developers - Intro May 07 2013 2012 Working with Dynamic Schema in Azure Mobile Services Dec 12 2012 Windows Phone 8 Development on a Mac Dec 11 2012 Azure Bootcamp in Houston Oct 05 2012 Six Time Microsoft MVP Jul 01 2012 Introducing the Highway Framework Jun 29 2012 Write Less Code - Theme Detection on Windows Phone 7 Jun 16 2012 Pylon Solver for Windows Phone 7 Jun 14 2012 Join ScottGu for Meet Windows Azure Jun 06 2012 Windows Phone Bootcamp and Hackathon at Big (D) 2012 May 28 2012 Presentation - WCF Topics Apr 17 2012 Introducing SWTOR.Parser Mar 19 2012 PowerTrip FTW Mar 13 2012 Apprentices Update Feb 26 2012 Where at MVP Summit is Tim Rayburn Feb 24 2012 How to be an Improver Feb 21 2012 Finishing Up The Cookbook Feb 19 2012 Converted to Octopress Feb 19 2012 Command Line FTW! Feb 13 2012 Edition Wars Feb 12 2012 AgileDotNet Dallas 2012 Jan 12 2012 2011 Speaking at Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group Dec 13 2011 Dallas TechFest 2011 Registration Jun 24 2011 Call for Speakers May 17 2011 Speaking at Dallas ASP.NET User Group Apr 25 2011 What is Round Table? Apr 16 2011 Gravatar HtmlHelper added to Round Table : Armory Feb 03 2011 Introducing : Round Table Squire Jan 19 2011 Apprenticeship : A Journey Begins Jan 09 2011 2010 Speaking Tonight at the Spokane .NET Users Group Sep 15 2010 DictionaryAdapter is Love (Part 2) Sep 07 2010 DictionaryAdapter is Love (Part 1) Sep 03 2010 Work for the Best … Pity the Rest Aug 25 2010 Why should I go to Dallas TechFest? Jul 26 2010 Another Database Option - MongoDB Jun 12 2010 iPad becomes toughPad Jun 07 2010 Dallas TechFest 2010 Registration Is Open May 25 2010 Why go to the MVP Summit? Feb 20 2010 Dallas TechFest 2010 – Call For Speakers Feb 17 2010 2009 Gravatars in ASP.NET MVC using HtmlHelper Dec 23 2009 I’m an MVP for 2009! Jul 03 2009 New Project, New Technologies Jun 27 2009 Dallas DevCares – Parallelism in .NET 4.0 Jun 25 2009 Register For Dallas TechFest, Win a Mac Mini Jun 04 2009 Speaking at Northwest Arkansas Code Camp 2009, and you can join remotely Apr 25 2009 Solution Clone v1.1 Apr 09 2009 Unit Testing in BizTalk – TestFile v2.0 Apr 08 2009 BizTalk Server 2009 on MSDN Apr 08 2009 Intro to WCF for the AZ.NET User Group Mar 11 2009 Improving Myself Feb 27 2009 Dallas TechFest 2009 - Call For Speakers Feb 23 2009 MVP Summit 2009 - The Official Plan Feb 20 2009 Solution Clone v1.0 Feb 15 2009 IDisposable, WCF, and Hole In The Middle Feb 09 2009 Dallas TechFest 2009 - Postponed Jan 11 2009 INETA Speaker’s Bureau Jan 05 2009 2008 PDC 2008 - The Future of C# Oct 27 2008 GiveCamp Kiva Lending Team Oct 26 2008 Tulsa TechFest 2008 Oct 13 2008 Simple Reflection Based Assignment Using Extension Methods Oct 08 2008 BizTalk 2006 R2 Pre-requisites CAB Files Sep 25 2008 How To Create a Portable Office (Computing) Sep 24 2008 How To Create a Portable Office (Content) Sep 22 2008 Give back with Kiva and GiveCamp Sep 22 2008 How To Create a Portable Office (Overview) Sep 19 2008 How To Create a Portable Office (Organization) Sep 19 2008 How To Create a Portable Office (Network Connectivity) Sep 19 2008 What is needed for Dallas TechFest 2009? Sep 18 2008 Microsoft MVP again in 2008 Jul 01 2008 Let the upgrade begin Jul 01 2008 Connecting Logitech Freepulse Bluetooth Headphones to a Computer or Cellphone Apr 13 2008 Dallas TechFest 2008 Mar 12 2008 Rest In Peace Gary Gygax Mar 04 2008 Joining a Domain from Windows Server 2008 Feb 20 2008 Real Time SOA - Planning Your SOA Feb 07 2008 Incredible Football Feb 03 2008 Webcast - Building HIPAA Solutions with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Jan 30 2008 Model View Presenter Screencast Jan 27 2008 We Are Microsoft - We Are Sogeti Jan 18 2008 2007 Who are you? What do you do? - Dustin Hicks Dec 19 2007 Nerd does Rockband Dec 15 2007 Bringing Our "Ahhhh" Game Dec 07 2007 Webcast - Toi Wright on We Are Microsoft Dec 06 2007 Here comes another bubble Dec 04 2007 Episode 1 - Delbert Murphy on the Microsoft Certified Architect Program Nov 30 2007 Project Fjord : BizTalk Mapper to require Surface in Oslo Nov 29 2007 We Are Microsoft - Team Sogeti Nov 28 2007 Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest Nov 28 2007 Windows Home Server Nov 25 2007 How the Amazon Kindle Will Change Music Nov 20 2007 Hiring Talented .NET Developers at Sogeti Nov 16 2007 1000 Lines Of Code Nov 15 2007 VSLive! Austin Information Nov 14 2007 My Recent "Tour" of the Microsoft Central Region Nov 14 2007 Memphis Day of .NET Nov 11 2007 Little Rock .NET User Group Nov 08 2007 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference Nov 06 2007 Something wrong with Weblogs.ASP.NET? Nov 03 2007 Panel Discussion Notes Oct 30 2007 Oslo thoughts after the Keynote Oct 30 2007 Oslo Announcement Oct 30 2007 Twittering the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference Oct 28 2007 Dallas and Houston BizTalk 2006 R2 Launch Events Oct 26 2007 TypeMock just totally rocks! Oct 19 2007 Minneapolis BizTalk 2006 R2 Launch and Heartland Developer Conference Oct 18 2007 The shot heard ‘round the world Oct 11 2007 Calling Heartland District Folks Oct 10 2007 Sushi and RFID Oct 08 2007 North Dallas .NET User Group Oct 04 2007 Cannot call the EDISend Pipeline from an Orchestration Oct 04 2007 XmlSerializerFormat plus Huge Schema equals Trouble Oct 02 2007 Webcast - Introduction to C# 3.0 Sep 27 2007 Creative ZEN V Plus Sep 27 2007 About Tim Rayburn Sep 27 2007 BizTalk 2006 R2 Developer Edition on MSDN Sep 26 2007 It’s like CommunityCast.TV but… Sep 25 2007 Microsoft Dallas HALO3 Launch Party - Live Blogging Sep 24 2007 How to Promote Properties from an Orchestration Sep 21 2007 Win an Invite to the Microsoft HALO 3 Pre-Launch Party on September 24th! Sep 11 2007 Speaking at the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference Sep 11 2007 Speaking Tonight at the Dallas C# SIG Sep 06 2007 Great Time at Houston TechFest Aug 27 2007 Introduction to Visual Basic 9.0 Features Aug 08 2007 Ruby vs. C# Smackdown Aug 06 2007 Looking for my next project… Aug 06 2007 Great time at OK Code Camp Aug 02 2007 Hanselman joins Microsoft Jul 22 2007 Upcoming Speaking Events Jul 20 2007 ASP Alliance : Why you need to use System.Diagnostics.Debug more than you do… Jul 19 2007 What does the Virtualization craze say about Software? Jul 08 2007 Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group Jul 08 2007 MVP BizTalk Server Jul 01 2007 WCF Line of Business Adapter SDK in ‘RC’ on Microsoft Connect Jun 30 2007 WCF Deep Dive (Little Rock) - Wrap Up Jun 30 2007 WCF Deep Dive Jun 30 2007 Address Information Jun 30 2007 Learning Adapters : SAP Jun 24 2007 Debugging into the .NET XmlSerializer Jun 20 2007 BizTalk Best Practices Jun 16 2007 The best darn flight delay ever… Jun 09 2007 Certification Mania or What to do with free time at TechEd Jun 08 2007 Stop by Sogeti in the Partner Expo area today Jun 06 2007 WCF & WF Training at TechEd Jun 03 2007 Unofficial TechEd Itinerary Jun 01 2007 MapCop 0.2 and the move to CodePlex May 26 2007 Free Exam for First Timers May 15 2007 BizTalk Command Line Scripts May 15 2007 Interfaces + Extension Methods = POWER Apr 29 2007 New Evangelist Team Apr 28 2007 BizTalk Hotrod Apr 28 2007 Birds of a Feather - BizTalk, WCF and WF Apr 28 2007 Support Team Hanselman Apr 12 2007 Extension Methods - TimRayburn.Extensions Beta v0.1 Mar 20 2007 Patterns & Practices on Team System Mar 17 2007 LINQ Bug or Feature? Mar 17 2007 Dallas BizTalk User Group Mar 14 2007 .NET 3.0 Community Launch Mar 09 2007 Team Foundation Server Administrator’s Guide Mar 07 2007 FizzBuzz for BizTalk Mar 06 2007 Great New Resources Mar 05 2007 Gravatar is back! Feb 23 2007 Break the Habit : Nested If Statements Feb 23 2007 Reflector 5.0 changes .NET Blogging Feb 20 2007 Temporary Post Used For Style Detection (fe6c10b8-f62b-4d82-b9d5-d30e3a1bba35) Feb 18 2007 Sogeti and Software Architects Feb 14 2007 ‘System.String’ must be Xml serializable Jan 25 2007 2006 Upcoming Presentations Dec 26 2006 My wife is the best… Dec 26 2006 Dallas .NET User Group Presentation - Black Belt XML Dec 15 2006 What a crazy month! Dec 01 2006 Windows Vista on MSDN Subscriber Downloads Nov 16 2006 Reminder - Dallas BizTalk User Group Meeting Oct 30 2006 BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2 Oct 26 2006 MapCop v0.1 Oct 25 2006 File Adapter Macros Oct 22 2006 Scott Colestock’s Deployment Framework for BizTalk Oct 19 2006 Dynamically Adding User Controls in ASP.NET Oct 18 2006 Upgrading to dasBlog 1.9.6288 Oct 17 2006 First Meeting Announced Oct 16 2006 HiddenNetwork.com Oct 15 2006 EdSquared interviewed for .NET Rocks! Oct 14 2006 Leaving for Tulsa TechFest Oct 13 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - Logical String Functoids Oct 12 2006 Model View Presenter Oct 11 2006 Speaking at the Little Rock .NET User Group Oct 09 2006 CodeSmith 4.0 Beta Oct 08 2006 BizTalk Learning Resources Oct 07 2006 Drop All Tables on SQL Server Oct 06 2006 Dallas BizTalk User Group Oct 06 2006 BizTalk XmlDisassembler Problem with <?xml?> Oct 05 2006 HiddenNetwork.com Oct 04 2006 Code Generation Oct 04 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - Logical XOR Oct 03 2006 SOA & Business Process Conference Oct 03 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - FormatDate Oct 02 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - Trimmed Value Exists Oct 01 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - If … Else Sep 30 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - Logical NOT Sep 29 2006 TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids Sep 28 2006 Mapping Fundamentals - XSLT Call Templates Sep 28 2006 Mapping Fundamentals - Organization is the Key Sep 28 2006 How to put PDBs in the GAC Sep 28 2006 Great BizTalk Resources Sep 26 2006 Upcoming Speaking Engagements Sep 25 2006 DFW BizTalk User Group - Interested? Sep 25 2006 log4net Database Sep 23 2006 Direct from Windows Live Writer Sep 23 2006 The Future of the BizTalk Mapper Aug 26 2006 Speaking @ Tulsa Tech Fest Aug 26 2006 New Position and some Vacation Aug 08 2006 BizTalk 2004 Configuration Error Number 80004005 Aug 04 2006 New Phone - Cingular 8125 aka HTC Wizard Jul 30 2006 The Church of Using Jul 29 2006 Important guidance for development Jun 13 2006 CodeRush Love… May 15 2006 Scott Hanselman does North Dallas .NET User Group May 10 2006 NUnit Developer May 10 2006 Multiple Outbound Connections Mar 01 2006 External File Dependency in NUnit Feb 19 2006 2005 VistaDB 2.1 database for .NET has been released Dec 21 2005 Geek Gathering time again …. Oct 27 2005 Software Developer Liability Oct 21 2005 Speaking at Fort Worth .NET User Group Oct 20 2005 Coming Soon : More Content Oct 20 2005 Code Generation and Visual Studio 2003 Sep 22 2005 Speaking at the Northwest Arkansas .NET Users Group Aug 30 2005 Changes have Begun Aug 30 2005 Presentations Jul 29 2005 BizTalk and the Singleton Pattern Jul 29 2005 NProf saves the day… Jun 28 2005 Another Geek Gathering Jun 27 2005 Recovered from the Crash Jun 23 2005 DFW Area Geek Gathering Mar 29 2005 The EA Group Mar 08 2005 It is here … and it is wonderful Mar 07 2005 Enterprise Architecture Online User Group Forming… Mar 07 2005 It’s been ordered… Feb 18 2005 Looking towards a new Tablet PC Feb 03 2005 Virtual PC + SUSE 9.2 FTP Install = Learning Curve Feb 02 2005 Covast EDI Accelerator - Initial Impressions Jan 27 2005 Great set of Coding Standards Links Jan 26 2005 XmlNamespaceManager - Black Belt XML Jan 15 2005 Parsing an X12 EDI ‘by hand’ Jan 15 2005 New Article Posted - Parsing EDI ‘by hand’ Jan 15 2005 New Skin while I’m here Jan 07 2005 Comment Spam … Joy Jan 07 2005 Are Master’s Degrees just a dumb idea if you want to program? Jan 07 2005 2004 New Project : Hero Tracker Nov 24 2004 Getting XML from a SQL Server via VBScript Nov 19 2004 My GamerTag is Gisben, and I stink at Halo2 Nov 12 2004 Lexar Jump Drive Security Vulnerability Nov 05 2004 Fiber to the Premises Oct 18 2004 Working on ‘Practical Test Driven Development’ Oct 11 2004 Requirements by Sales Jun 29 2004 GMail … Excellent! Jun 27 2004 External Files and NUnit Testing Jun 23 2004 The start of a new day… Jun 21 2004 To COM+ or not to COM+ … May 26 2004 Who said learning isn’t fun … I won an XBox May 21 2004 Working Again May 12 2004 Trucktop.neT Apr 17 2004 Split() Function for SQL Server 2000 Mar 24 2004 Who said games never taught you anything… I learned about .NET Attributes Mar 20 2004 A New Site Mar 17 2004 You Never Know Jan 09 2004 SQL Injection Jan 08 2004 2003 UltraMon and MaxiVista Dec 30 2003 Back on the Market Dec 30 2003 Tech Interviews Dec 23 2003 .NET Books Oct 01 2003 Yukon Doomed? Sep 26 2003 4 Teirs to build the app… Sep 26 2003 I was there when it started. Sep 25 2003