Today was the first day of school for my kids. When I saw this commercial all I could think of was how my wife is so happy. This guy in the video may be the only person happier than she is. You gotta love YouTube :) [http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=/all/happy-days/]

I’ll be heading off to Dallas for the first time in several years this December to speak at VSLive Dallas [http://vslive.com/2008/dallas/]. I’ve been to San Fran, Toronto, NY, Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Las Vegas and a few other places but I have not been back to Texas in a while. The conferenc

Fay is on the move and its heading right towards my area. We’ve locked up tight and prepared even though it will probably all be just fine. Its probably going to be a Cat 1 at worst, let’s hope. I’ve been through a few bigger storms than this, once in Florida and we’ve prepared pretty well. [htt

The SparklingClient.com [http://www.sparklingclient.com/] has some pretty good podcasts over on their site. Recently they had a good chat with Corrina Barber [http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/], who provided the templates and styles for my Silverlight book. Corrina has some excellent Silverlight desig

I’ve been writing away about binding modes, ObservableCollections, XAML binding goodness, WCF, SOAP, Cross domain policies, converters, and third party web services … but tonight I started writing about passing entities between physical tiers in a Silverlight application. I know this material cold,