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Enhancing Desktop Computing with the Cloud

There is a lot of (rightfully so) hype around cloud computing and web based tools. One area, that I find very interesting which gets very little coverage is desktop computing with support in the...

Developer Choice

This post initially started as a set of notes related to my own research around NHibernate and Linq to SQL. However, it quickly turned into a very obvious "ah ha" moment. As I have...

MvcContrib NVelocity Extension

One of the major selling points of ASP.Net MVC is its extensibility options. Almost every piece of it can updated or swapped out. I have been hacking on the bits quite a bit over the last couple of...

Simplifying ASP.Net - NVelocity

NVelocity[1] is a .NET port of the Velocity open source template engine. I have used NVelocity quite a few times over the last couple of years. CSBTL - this project never went public, but basically...

Telligent Hack-A-Thon II

We had our second Telligent Hack-A-Thon last week when the product team was in town to celebrate the release of Community Server 2008. The objective was pretty simple: Create something useful...

Castle Project

For the last couple of weeks I have been digging through a bunch of new projects/concepts with the hope of using some new (to me) things in a couple application samples/prototypes I am itching to...

Telligent Product Team Openings

There are two new openings on the Telligent product team. If you are in the Dallas area and have a passion for building great software, see the listings below. SharePoint...

Alex's Lemonade

A couple of weeks ago, I got an invitation to my college roommate's son's first birthday. Normally, that would not be worthy of a blog post, but there was something in the card I was not...

Fun with ISAPI Filters

I am a big fan of ISAPI filters and ISAPI_Rewrite in particular. If you are not familiar with ISAPI filters and ISAPI_Rewrite, in a nutshell: ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine...

Demo Code Tools

Did you ever just want to test a quick piece of code? Prove an idea? Or even just wanted to see the name of a property to answer an email/forum/support request? Here are a couple of free tools which...