My name is Edward Tanguay. I'm an American software and web developer living and working in Berlin, Germany.
4 hours ago: If you are a developer in Berlin and need to improve your English, I'm looking for groups to teach after work: http://tanguay.info/itenglish.
5 hours ago: As far as I'm concerned, the singularity is already here, every time I wake up twitter tells me something amazing was created while I slept.
5 hours ago: We're not suffering from information overload, we're suffering from faulty filtering.
5 hours ago: Classic literature for free as nicely formatted 1-page or 2-page PDF downloads: http://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks.asp.
5 hours ago: Yes, when you pour coffee, "a lightning storm of neuronal activity occurs almost across the entire brain": http://is.gd/eWO1T @pholdings.
22 hours ago: If you put two spaces after a period or use underlining for emphasis, you were born before 1980.
22 hours ago: Word of the day: infovore, n. an animal with a voracious appetite for information.
yesterday: It's said that on average people use less than 10% of their brain, but I think on average computers use less than 1% of their CPU.
2 days ago: Saturday fun: team drawing on two computers with six-year-old in a shared google doc diagram.
2 days ago: Someday I want to produce a developer podcast called "What's that?" but for now "the developer's life" is a nice genre: http://is.gd/eTURO.
3 days ago: Here's a use-case for datapod format, recording human-readable data that later can be used as a datasource: http://is.gd/eSsLg @pholdings.

Articles

WPF ARTICLE created on Friday, January 23, 2009 permalink
using a Label is really just an elaborate and customizable way of using a TextBlock, label is heavier
 
WCF ARTICLE created on Friday, January 23, 2009 permalink
downloaded solution, worked immediately, simple, good for WPF beginners
 
WPF ARTICLE created on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 permalink
quite long, useful
 
ASP.NET MVC ARTICLE created on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 permalink
If you want to get the telerik grid control going in ASP.NET MVC, check out this article.
 
SOFTWARE DESIGN ARTICLE created on Friday, January 09, 2009 permalink
Excellent short article to read if you still don't understand dependency injection.
 
SOFTWARE DESIGN ARTICLE created on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 permalink
A slide presentation on how FMC and UML work together: "FMC is for system-related structures and UML for software-related structures", FMC fills the gap.
 
SOFTWARE DESIGN ARTICLE created on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 permalink
a good overview of guidelines to think about when communicating with diagrams, based on FMC but widely applicable
 
CSS ARTICLE created on Friday, January 02, 2009 permalink
Looks like an article explaning how to get columns to be the same height in CSS like you can do it so easily in tables.