Here’s a fun experiment.  First, take your mouse and place it out of reach.  Now, try to do your normal routine without reaching for the mouse.  Usually, there are two outcomes to this experiment: – Your hand will reach for the mouse only to discover that it is gone!  Even though you moved the mouse [...]

On New Year’s day, I was awarded me Silverlight MVP status for the second time.  I have to say, it was a nice way to start the year off!  Every quarter, Microsoft awards those individuals who have made outstanding contributions to their respective communities in the past year.  Outstanding contributions typically consist of (but are [...]

At major milestones in our projects, we find it useful to perform a retrospective analysis on various aspects of the project. This analysis gives us time to identify things that worked well along with the things that didn’t work so well (and everything in between). Once we have obtained feedback from everyone involved in the [...]

Here at ACS Technologies, we’ve assembled a small group of community evangelists.  The goal for each of these community evangelists is to share topics of interest from key areas with you.  When approached about the idea, I was happy to hear about the initiative and I knew right away that it was something I wanted to [...]