Visual Studio can be a tremendous resource hog, especially if you have a large solution and you're using a productivity add-in or two. On my current project we're running VS 2008, we've got just under 20 projects in the solution, and several of us are using the ReSharper 4.0 EAP nightly builds to enhance our dev-fu. And you know what... we're restarting VS at least a half dozen times a day to work around a nasty exception we regularly encounter while trying to compile: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. ...

This week I was having a conversation with some fellow developers at the ALT.NET Open Spaces conference and an interesting topic came up. We were talking about vast amounts of time, mostly personal time, we spend trying to improve our skills and our craft. We spend time reading and writing blogs, books, mailing list messages, attending and giving talks, contributing to Open Source, and reading and writing code. We spend a huge number of hours in the quest for continuous improvement. Self-teaching is good We all agreed that self-teaching is important and we do it because we...

Today I received an email informing me that I've received a Microsoft MVP Award in the ASP/ASP.NET category. Woot! Yeah, I realize its a whole day after all of the other MVPs received their renewal notices and all new MVPs got their emails, but hey... better late than never! Actually, it seems the joker that originally nominated me messed up my email address and as a result my notification email got lost in the ether. But they eventually fixed the glitch, I received the notification email, and Rob is still my homey. So what exactly does...