Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Scott just announced that dasBlog 1.9.7 has been released.
It's been a long time comin, but this will be the last asp.net 1.1 release. Moving forward we'll release a version that runs on asp.net 2.0 only and will support medium trust. This should make dasBlog run well on a host of providers w/o mucking with security settings.
After that, Clemens has some grand plans for 3.5.
There are a ton of new folks involved on the developer list these days, and it's nice to see the community build up around the little blogging engine that could. I haven't had the time these days to spend on dasBlog like I used to, but I try and sneak in some time here and there.
I'm looking forward to stop using VS.NET 2003 though. I pretty much resort to using Virtual PC these days since it's the only reasonable way to develop for .NET 1.1.