Don Xml's Grok This

Let’s get right to the point.  The big announcement is not that I’m joining Microsoft, but I did decide to take a full time position (gasp!).  I’ve decided to join GalaxeSolutions as a .Net Solutions Architect.  I’m not going to lie to you, this is a big change in mindset for me, and I’m not going to ...

I must admit, I bought Thinking for a Living by Thomas Davenport for 2 reasons. 1) I wanted to get some ideas on motivating and guiding other developers (aka computer programmers)2) I also want to see the techniques others would try to use on me to accomplish the same goals. Knowledge workers (of every type) are definitely a tough lot to ...

I’ve seen a couple .Net bloggers talking about migrating away from the old .Text code base to non-.Net blogging tools like WordPress, and I realized that I really needed to blog about the new CommunityServer 2.0.  I’d link back the bloggers that are considering moving, but I don’t want to place any outside pressure on their ...

I’ve been an independent consulting for over a decade, and one of the things I always hated was doing all my own back office work.  You know, all those things that you have to do to run a business (payroll, taxes, accounts payable, account receivable, etc.) but the time spent doing these things are not hours that you can bill to a ...

Since I publicly advertised that I am looking for some more consulting work I’ve been approached by a couple people about starting up (or joining) an new IT consulting firm.  For those of you that don’t know my background, I’ve been an independent consultant for almost all of my career (over 12 years as an ...