All posts by : Blogus Maximus

1 of 7 | eXtreeeeeeeme Project Management - In addition to learning WWF (that's Windows Workflow Foundation, Paul) I'm also reading a book given to me at the client, titled: eXtreme Project Management. I haven't read any PM books before, and I've only just started this one. The intent is for me to read, discuss and learn, so I figure why not open it up to a broader audience and see what you think too... 1) Have any of you read this book?  It's by Doug DeCarlo, published in 2004. 2) If you have, what did you think? 3) Whether you have or not, if you know a thing or two about eXtreme Project Management vs Traditional Project Management... feel free to speak up as well. Thanks! edit: AaronE has a relevant blogpost here......

2 of 7 | new gig - I've been pretty quiet the last week and a half (at least in my blog... I'm still twittering plenty.) The reason for this is that I've started a new gig with Magenic and I've been really, really busy. This new gig has me traveling from Minneapolis to a smallish town named Mitchell, SD and back each week. Between work and travel (and spending most of my nights getting up to speed on new stuff and new concepts) I haven't had much time to blog regularly. So, I'm going to try to make a conscious effort to reverse that trend. I still have a few more of my NINE Questions interviews in the can, so I'll be putting those out there, and I'll try to provide some updates on the fun experiences I'......

3 of 7 | SoCal CodeCamp – Day 2.1 - It’s been an interesting morning so far… between computer problems and ridiculously early wakeups (thanks to noisy neighbors.) Grabbed some breakfast downstairs at the hotel and it was time to head to the second day of code camp. After getting somewhat lost, I eventually got here and found the right building for my talk. Made it just in time to catch the first session (he was starting late due to technical difficulties with the room.) Dan Rigsby – Duplexing WCF in the Enterprise. This was a good talk and Dan’s a good presenter. I was a total WCF newb, so this was quite informative. The only down side was this one dude who kept cracking stupid jokes and interrupting with semi-relevant comm......

4 of 7 | HDC starts tonight!! - The Heartland Developers Conference has come to Minneapolis and things start kicking off tonight with the pre-conference party, down at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis. I attended the HDC last year in Omaha as a representative of Magenic and enjoyed it so much I decided to speak at the event this year (both in Minneapolis and Omaha.) I'm speaking on Monday and my time slot has some pretty tough competition with Andrew Troelson discussing LINQ Query Internals and Amanda Laucher discussing Real World F#. If I wasn't speaking at the same time, I would definitely be sitting in Amanda's session. She's a good friend of mine and an excellent presenter (and F# is pretty neat stuff ......

5 of 7 | NINE Questions with Mark Dunn - Mark and have been friends for a few years. He (and his company, Dunn Training) is an active supporter of community events, a good guy and a true Southerner. Mark gets around a lot and I'm constantly running into him at conferences and code camps. He was kind enough to stop for a moment, catch a breath and answer these NINE Questions: 1. Where are you from? I'm originally from a very small town north of Birmingham, Alabama called Blountsville.  It's about halfway between Birmingham and Huntsville.  I grew up on a farm doing farm like things..taking care of cows and hauling hay in every year. 2. What do you do? Give me the 10 second pitch. I own a training and consulting busin......

6 of 7 | Caligari trueSpace 7.6 for FREE?!? - If you're a 3D kinda guy, which I'm not (well, I'm getting there, but it's a slow journey) then you might be interested in this. Apparently, Caligari is giving away their trueSpace 7.6 product for free for a limited time. Here's the marketing fluff: What you may not expect is that we are making trueSpace7.6 available to everyone at no charge, in a giant step forward to bring high-end 3D authoring tools to all who want them! trueSpace7.6 is far more than a SketchUp-style 3D architectural modeling tool. Instead, it provides a complete 3D authoring environment for any type of 3D content creation, whether that's images, animations, ......

7 of 7 | my new router (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MSN.COM) - Recently I bought a new router. My existing Linksys Wireless B router (a nearly vintage BEFW11S4 v.4) was up to 4 reboots a day. Those of you who have experienced this fun little ritual know what I'm referring to: One minute you're working just fine and then all of a sudden, no internet connection. Doesn't matter if you're wired or wireless. So, being the thrifty (cheap bastard) type, I put off replacing it as long as possible. I also hate hate hate dealing with networking stuff, so that was another incentive to wait. Eventually, I (and my family) couldn't stand it any longer, so I went to Best Buy and picked up a new WRT54G2. I'm always a sucker for pretty packaging with wo......