Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities from David Silver had some novel concepts and Silver shared them with a lot of enthusiasm.  The book dropped off hard after around page 130, however, when the author spent 100 pages describing hypothet... [More]

The first BlogEngine.NET site I customized and put online was version 1.3.1 in May for my sister.  BlogEngine-driven DBVT.COM went online in June with 1.3.1, which I upgraded to 1.4 in July.  Mads and crew have been feverishly adding improvements to 1.4 and earlier this week released 1.4.5... [More]

This is the post I promised when I moved to BlogEngine.NET on where my head's at with Community Server, so listen up.  It's been six weeks since I began marketing myself as a freelance .NET developer focusing on Open Source alternatives to Community Server.  Faithful to that change in focu... [More]

Some light-weight Steve Jobs humor. The drama of Steve Jobs' emaciated physique seems to get weirder and weirder. Dan Lyons' "Imagine if any other CEO pulled bullshit like this" certainly got some feedback today.  A commenter responded to, "Imagine if Ballmer appeared in public having lost an ... [More]

I was excited when Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies from Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc, arrived from Amazon a few days ago.  I made sure it was placed at the top of my Nordic Track Must Read stack.  The book was written for corporate exec... [More]

Well done on The Mojave Experiment! For a company with some of the smartest developers in the world, it's good to hear about others at Microsoft doing something smart once in a while, too.  The Mojave Experiment is just that.  "Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Wi... [More]

The last Twitter holdout folds. I ended the good fight and starting tweeting a couple of days ago. It's a vehicle to express my schizophrenic coding life, doing Community Server all-day every-day, but moving in a different direction after hours.  I mostly tweet about Community Server, in other... [More]

It's easy to say a book is a classic, but Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is one of them.  Chasm was originally published in 1991 and is as insightful today as it was 17 years ago.  5 out of 5 stars.  Excerpts from the first 100 pages below.  Many more in the remaining 100 p... [More]

And be a hot woman. My August issue of Wired arrived yesterday. Influenced by the advice of Copyblogger's "How to be Interesting" post I perused the cover story on Julia Allison.  Copyblogger's tip #8 on being interesting was "Show a (half) naked woman."  Other good tips in the post, but ... [More]

Keyvan Nayyeri's Task Scheduler Application is taking shape with working Beta 1 source on CodePlex.  The K-Man discusses the release here. The solution contains a Website Project and Abidar class library as shown here. Keyvan includes a Clear Cache task in the web project to give you a sampli... [More]