And on the 8th day God created blogs...

Welcome to Steven Nagy's .NET development blog.

Why am I starting this blog? I don't think it will fill any particular void in the dissemination of information relating to development. There's a lot of blogs out there, and I will endeavor to link in the ones I feel relevant to the topic. But this blog?

Well for one thing I don't plan on letting the topics scale in complexity. Each topic will usually be concise. This means I can post more often, rather than writing an essay which I feel I will need to proof read. It also means that as I discover things of interest, I can post a brief blurb, and then simply link to it.

So what are the topics of interest here? Here's a brief list of the kinds of things that interest me and that I will probably blog about:

• Technologies like ASP.NET, C#, dHTML, CSS and Javascript
• Software like Visual Studio, CodeSmith, and Expression Studio
• Companies like Microsoft and Google
• Theory like design and development patterns
• Fun stuff like new startups and products

There will probably be other stuff in there too. I'm pretty Microsoft focused, but I'm open minded as well. As a developer it's useful to be aware of all the different tools, APIs, design patterns, and techniques at my disposal, and it's this information that I want to share with you, whether you are a beginner, or advanced.

So stick around. I'm constantly learning and I want to share that learning with you.