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

Physiologically, I think I know what a donut top is, but what's a muffin top? I should probably not lead with this Everyman bit, but this series is all about the joy of shared discovery, after all.  Fun washingtonpost.com article on Facebook using profile information for advertising wit... [More]

US Chief Technology Officer? I consider myself pretty plugged-in to current political chatter, but this Scoble post was the first I learned about a US CTO office being considered in an Obama Administration. Scoble went with Larry Lessig and threw out several other names.  Lessig is a great cho... [More]

Get your Thomas Friedman feed here.  Thomas Friedman is the impressive New York Times columnist and author of "The World Is Flat," a book worth every rupee of its hype. I wanted to see if I could obtain a feed of Friedman's NY Times work that didn't include all columnists as well.  Done!&... [More]

Living and dying by the billable hour. I tweeted this morning that I "was feeling very 'work, death and taxes,'" and that I needed "to get away from earning a living by the hour." That's pretty heavy for 140 characters, I guess. Still getting the hang of the whole Twitter vibe... I'm a blessed free... [More]

Who would have guessed Mads is into performance optimization? Mads Kristensen is speaking at the Copenhagen .NET User Group on advanced ASP.NET performance optimizations.  (Inside BlogEngine.NET user joke.  HEE! HEE!) New England Code Camp 10 has a name! I was SO worried tha... [More]

Jeff was not a happy twitterer. Jeff Jarvis, famed blogger who kicked the crap out of Dell, is one of the 40 people I follow on Twitter.  Jeff wasn't a happy Twitterer yesterday, tweeting, "Fucking Starbucks. What's so hard about keeping a pot of coffee full in a COFFEE STORE? I had 2 min. to ... [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]

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]

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]