I'm a Christian Dad and software guru. I do public speaking and development team coaching on request...send me an email if you're interested.

Here's a particularly useful (IMHO) answer I gave to a very common problem:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired.

Here are a few things I've written:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa496042(v=sql.80).aspx (you should use CTE's to do this now)

http://chrisbehrens.sys-con.com/node/35858

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Web-Components-Object-Technology/dp/0079123163 (co-author)

And here are some conferences I've spoken at all over the world:

• http://www.dallastechfest.com

  http://www.internetworld.co.uk/ (Chicago x 2, D.C., Munich, Sydney, Seoul)