Growing tired of the painful Yellow Hell theme, and being largely design challenged, I went on the hunt for a new site theme. Searching via Google, I came across Brandon Schwartz' Graffiti CMS theme page and quickly decided that I was very fond of the Embouteillage theme. I downloaded it, and made the...

For the past 1.5 years I had served as Telligent's project manager on Microsoft's ASP.NET and Silverlight.NET developer community sites. As announced here , Telligent and Microsoft mutually agreed to transition the site management to another company. This transition was complete on September 30 and I...

Inspired and impressed by my 16 year old daughter's efforts to raise over $100 in sponsorships for her 6-mile walk to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis society (sold $1 paper foot at a time), I decided to participate in the event instead of just dropping her off and picking her up when it was over. I wrote...

Last month I purchased a 4 GB microSD memory card for my Samsung SCH-i760. After struggling to get the card out of its packaging , and promptly losing the SD adapter , I inserted the card into my phone and thought I was good to go. This past weekend, my phone told me it didn't have enough space to allow...

One of my fellow Telligenti ( Michael Kelley ) had this as his Windows Live Messenger tagline for the past few days: "I'm only as smart as Google." Each time I looked at my contact list in WLM I stopped and reflected on that tagline. For me, it holds many truths. People who know me tease me...

Tonight I decided to update my site to the Graffiti CMS Beta 2 bits (from the Beta 1 bits). It took exactly one hour to update the site, from the time the thought crossed my mind to being completely done. Rather than leave unneeded files lying about, I decided to do a clean install. I also decided to...

As a Program Manager, I am a Jack of many trades, a Renaissance woman of sorts. One of the things I find myself doing is remotely connecting to servers to check error logs, look at files, review IIS settings, and various other things. With Windows Server 2003, logging off was always a bit uncomfortable...

Boy was I excited when I won an Apple iPhone at the Telligent Christmas party! On the stage to claim my prize, I proudly announced "Now I can be part of the club!". Several of my coworkers, including but not limited to Rob Howard , Scott Watermasysk , and Jose Lema have iPhones and love them...

Much to my surprise, I have received the 2008 Microsoft MVP Award for my efforts in the Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical community. This is my fourth consecutive year, with awards in 2005, 2006, 2007, and now 2008. Thank you to Microsoft and the community for the recognition!...

Since Graffiti is so new, there are not a lot of themes out there in the wild, yet. My graphic design skills are non-existent, so I decided to hunt down a Wordpress theme that I liked, then convert it to Graffiti CMS . My friend Google came to the rescue in finding different sites containing Wordpress...