This post is to track the progress of the vbCity migration to the new platform. Our test upgrades and database conversion of the ~700,000 posts has taken close to 24 hours so the actual move will take a little over 24 hours. The site will be down and redirect to the Offline page for the ... [More]

Who is the "typical VB.NET developer"? Is there one? There are millions of VB.NET developers in the world, and they each have their own unique story. Microsoft VB Team decided to talk to some of them to find out what kinds of applications they are building, what technologies they are usin... [More]

Oliver Sturm and Gary Short have recently started their new podcast, called Sod This, and it's here: http://www.sodthis.com. Sod This is a mixture of two rather technical people having a chat, discussions about relevant or not so relevant technology, programming questions and sock monsters, and i... [More]

There is a controversy in the software development industry about quality. To many people, quality is expensive, and lower quality means cheaper development which means financial savings. This very simplistic thinking leads to spending less on qualified developers, less solid testing and fixes ... [More]

vbCity turned 10 years last week - pretty darn long time! I still pretty much refuse to admit I've been running it for THAT long :) I posted this a week ago in the vbCity forums and also wanted to share via the blog. Today,June 25th, 2008vbCity turns 10 years old! It is hard to believe that... [More]

I have been working for over two months setting up new community site http://dev.net.ua - Ukrainian Developer Community. It went live on November 1st. You may not believe it but dev.net.ua is first Ukrainian developer community site, for Microsoft technologies anyway. My apologies if I was n... [More]

Those of you who are subscribed to our VBFeeds have only seen one side of the coin ;-) Today the other side has become available - Steve Smith launched similar C# Feeds service: Today CSharpFeeds officially goes live.  This is a pet project of mine and Gregg Stark’s based on ... [More]

Haven't updated you on VBFeeds.com status in a while - my apologies. The feeds were added recently into the aggregation list - Microsoft XML Team's Blog (they have regular posts about VB and LINQ) and Brian Beckman - great posts on VB9 and LINQ. And just last night I added Geo... [More]

Recent article by Mike Gunderloy on SearchVB.com - VB developers: Second class no more Image credit - jillypax at Zazzle.com

How many times did I mention lately I love ASP.NET 2.0 and VB2005? Not enough. Yet one more time – I absolutely love Whidbey! So, I decided to make vbfeeds.com mobile-enabled so visitors could browse it on their mobile device. In the past I would have a choice of setting up a virtual directory ... [More]