About Me

Some of you may already know me, or know of me from my long history with Infragistics.  If you've never heard of Infragistics, they're a UI Tools company that deals mainly in the Microsoft spaces including ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, and now Silverlight. 

I've been working with ASP.NET since its initial alphas.  It was always fun to talk about how long I've been working with ASP.NET and have others try and call me out.  What they didn't know was that while they were still in DLL Hell developing in COM, I was rising out of the water into a new world of web development.  If you've ever worked with a brand new technology as I'm sure many of you have (and still are), it's difficult to say the least, as no formal documentation is available yet.  As you're learning it, so are those who will be publishing books over the next year or two.

As many of you have come to realize, working with ASP.NET means you must master multiple technologies, especially if you're on the UI side of things.  So over the years I've come to know Javascript and CSS quite intimately.  We started out as enemies, but I'm happy to say we're really good friends now.  I've also been working my way down the ASP.NET stack, beyond the UI.  Working with HTTP Handlers and Modules, custom config sections and expression builders - all of the pieces that aren't part  of your every day needs, but provide very powerful options when you do need to call on them - and they also make great material for my blog.