All else being equal, you should use GitHub (http://www.github.com/) for Git hosting. GitHub is indeed a cloud-hosted git repository, but it’s so much more than that....

It was my pleasure to talk about version control systems: svn (subversion), hg (mercurial), and git at the NWVDNUG....

I get asked from time to time what tools I would install to use Git on Windows....

It was my pleasure to speak at the Phoenix Java User Group this evening, discussing HTML5....

IIS Express is awesome, a great upgrade from Cassini. It supports https, Windows Authentication, persistent sites even if Visual Studio is closed, command-line launching, it’s great....

I’ve been asked a few times to help people move from their current use of the Web Development Server to https....

The question was asked: Given an asp.net application that in itself uses Forms Authentication, what is the best practice for securing a public-facing demo site such that nobody who is not in the “in crowd” can see the site at all?...

ELMAH is an awesome error logging framework for ASP.NET. It provides both an elegant way of capturing errors, and an elegant way of displaying them later....

I had the great pleasure of presenting at SEVDNUG with my son this evening. He was a wonderful asset, and a great star....

I use Sql Source Control in an unconventional way: I want to commit both sql scripts and code at once....

Design Patterns Design Patterns are names we give code constructs. We’re not usually inventing anything new, we’re just giving a name for things we’ve always done....

I’ve had this conversation a few times, so it seems natural that it’d evolve onto my blog in time....

Configuring the first IIS 7.x box is far easier than IIS 6 was, but configuring multiple web servers to behave identically can be a pain....

The “real-time” web is one of the holy grails of software development. It’s the notion that we can provide a native experience through a browser....