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Will The Real GoDaddy SOPA Numbers Please Stand Up?
Moving to Azure: Worker Roles for Nothing and Tasks for Free
Moving to Azure: Static Assets
Moving to Azure: The Database
Moving to Azure: The Plan and Start
Debugging Azure WebRoles with Multiple Sites
Measuring Windows 7 Patch Bloat
XNA 3D Primer Examples Updated, XNA 2D Example Added, Talks on Both at DevLINK
Microsoft Silent as Xbox Indies Marketplace Exploited
Anime (and Indie Game) Fans Give Back to Japan
Is XNA good for Indie Games?
Are gamers still rating Indie Games after the Xbox Dashboard update?
Fun with XNA and 2.5D
Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background
Xbox Indies: Come Play With Us
Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games
Not An MVP
Tell The Truth
The Blank Canvas
ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
GameMarx Launching Soon
QR Codes
Web Deployment Projects for 2010: Microsoft Listens
Why Apple Fears Mono, Java, and Flash
ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory
CodeStock 2010 Keynote: Rachel Appel
XNA 3D Primer Published – Get a free copy!
FuncWorks studio gets video
ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content
R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009
IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban!
Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement
Being a Duct Tape Programmer
Book Review: Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod
DevLink 2009 – Good News Everyone!
FuncWorks First XNA Game – ROCS
The Naked Truth of Knoxville GiveCamp 2009
FuncWorks Studio
CodeStock 2009 on Twitter
The Desk that Mike’s Dad Built
SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button
Code Camp Room Planner
Announcing FuncWorks and the Feel The Func Podcast
CodeStock: An interesting chart
Some site enhancements for SEO, Gravatars, Xbox, and Zune
12 Reasons Startups Hate Microsoft
Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net
Book Review: The Big Idea by Donny Deutsch
An SEO and Usability look at ViNull.com
CodeStock 2009: We Want You!
You should be using Balsamiq Mockups
A Letter to the Community on CodeStock 2009
Game Development going Agile
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
TeamCity.CodeBetter.com, A continuous integration server farm for open source projects
The No-business Meeting
CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open
Avoiding the Anti-Interview
RROD: To those with working Xbox 360’s
Speaking at the Knoxville Agile Practitioner's Group
Papa’s got a brand new blog
ASP.NET SEO Interview on Polymorphic Podcast
Google Can You Hear Me?
Finding the difference between two Arrays, or un-LINQ-ing your code
Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
The Slants, a Zune, and a Podcast (Chainsaw Buffet)
The taste of Mana (Chainsaw Buffet)
Get your fresh, hot Chainsaw Buffet here!
Launching the Chainsaw Buffet Broadcast
ASP.Net Podcast of CodeStock Interviews
ORM talk at CodeStock Open Spaces
PostStock
Using LINQ to generate HTML
Back into gaming, thanks to Jeff
The ASP.NET MVC Definition
The MVC Minefield
Review: The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Knoxville takes part in the Ann Arbor Give Camp
How did I get started in Software Development?
Where's Mike?
CodeStock After Party!
You'll have my SQL when you pry my keyboard from my cold dead hands
Join me at CodeStock 2008!
Developer's Non-Development Book List
Birmingham Slides and Code
Birmingham Software Developers Association, May 14th
Announcing CodeStock 2008
SilverLight Interop with Flash/Flex (flashlight?)
Session, ForEach, and a ShallowCopy walk into a bar...
It's Tasty, It's Healthy, It's DevLicio.us!
Speaking in Maryland this weekend
Designed for transport
Can you handle power?
I think I'm MAIN.NET...
Back home after my tour of the South
Presentation: From Zero to XAML
Presentation: Welcome to the Church of Agile
More Speaking Dates
WPF: Using Viewbox and Canvas to create a virtual resolution workspace
ASP.NET: Things I've Learned
Upcoming Speaking Dates
Presentation: SOA, Building the Arch
Presentation: What's New in ASP.NET 3.5
Presentation: DataSets - Code Less, Do More
I luvs me sum stage
A blog in the life of Mike and Cicelie
Getting Flocked all over again
Upcoming speaking dates
.Net routine file IO best practice
East Tennessee .Net User's Group Site Launch
Bad DownloadSquad, Bad...
SilverLight Raps, Yo!
Girls on Guitar
Thoughts on Kindle, the Amazon eBook Reader
I'm a Twit
Speaking in Memphis November 10, 2007
SilverLight: Using Web Services with SilverLight 1.0
SilverLight: A simple flickr photo viewer
Radiohead: Somewhere in the Rainbow
ASP.NET: Working with the Event Log
Book Burning
Presentation: Zen and the Art of Website Maintenance
My Desktop
Presentation: WTF is WPF?
Speaking Dates
.Net Links, I have seen the SilverLight
WPF: Threading basics in WPF
Little Deaths of Freedom
Linking, linking, linking... VS Addin Linking... Rawhide!
WPF: Dive into WPF
International WPF 3D Month
Switching to Google Reader
.Net Links, all Shiny and New
iStillDontCare
.Net WPF Links, Sugar no Cream
Ask.com me no questions
.Net Link Roundup
Windows Vista - No Soup for You!
Penance
Virtual Insanity PC 2007
Windows Live Writer Beta 2 Released
Scratch: Programming for Kids
New CamStudio 2.5 Coming
Behind the Keys: Dylan Wolf
Refactor! for ASP.NET
New Flickr Slideshow
Silverlight rocks, or why you don't pick fights with Microsoft
My 0.15 seconds of fame
ASP.NET: Have a meaningful relationship with your DataSet
I need your help
ASP.NET: Dan's list of tips
iBlog, therefore I am
Design for the talent impaired
ASP.NET: Sorting a GridView with custom objects
ASP.NET: GridView and ObjectDataSource with custom objects
Routers, In, Space!
public long Strange() { return trip; }
Support Skype, for the Children
Turning Pi
[root@localhost /]# kill -9 "bitch"; echo "word"
Published and on Tour
Life is a series of dogs (and cats)
I can vouchon that!
Microsoft's Blue Monster
Dylan a'la Terra Naomi
Ziki enters Social Thunderdome
Tor: I always feel like, somebody's watching me
For sale, digital camera, like new
Good Gawd, Good Fries!
eStarling Kills Christmas
The Math of Mortgages
Why Web 2.0 Design Could Cost You 75% of the Market
I've been squatted!
Moving to CodePlex
Behind the Keys: Scott Jennings
".NET Book Zero" by Charles Petzold - Free!
Del.icio.us in FireFox 2.0
Search the Long Tail of Code
ASP.NET: Supporting the Sitemap Protocol
Free AOL Video or How to look dumb in less than 24 hours
about:Mozilla
ASP.NET: Totaling a GridView part 2, the SQL
Screencasting Software Roundup
A day later...
Who the hell is Stanislaw Lem?
10 things about Brico's blog
The 100th Download
Voting is so important, do it twice or more!
20 minutes into the future...
Pushing the Big Blue Button
The Desk that Mike Built
The claws of the RIAA are long
Blogger's Oct Meetup Post Mortem
October Meetup: Ready, Set, Blog!
ViNull Mashup
ASP.NET: Understanding FormView's DefaultMode with ChangeMode
Mr Conservative: Barry Goldwater
Wii the people
Golden, Blogged, and Del.icio.us
ViNull.Com: Relaunch
Knoxville Bloggers Meetup: I, Pod
Get these M*Fng Snakes on my M*Fng framework!
DragonCon: Day 4
DragonCon: Days 2 & 3
DragonCon: Day 1
Rumsfeld is one bad mother...
U.S. Citizens Barred from returning home
Grateful Dead Truck'n Over MPAA
Knox Bloggers Meetup a Success!
Knoxville Blogger's Meetup
You're on notice Web 2.0!
ASP.NET: Snakes on a framework!
Are you ready to Sham-Rock?!
Mrs. President Clinton
Wal-Mart V. Maryland
Flock Meetup
Freedom Fest: 2006
Go ahead Jay-Z, Brush your shoulders off
Minister of Orders - Republic of Tea
Picasa and Picasa Web Review
I get my cheese from Amazon
God Save the Internet
I'm Google's Bitch
The apple lands near the tree
DaMike's Notebook
Book Review: Code
Photo frenzy!
ASP.NET: Time keeps on slipping, slipping...
ViNull.Com Launch
Obituaries: March 30th, 2006
The Advantage
Do not remove this tag under penalty of law
Hiking with Cameras
Arab: It's the new Black.
Settle up with Sony
New Blog Site Coming; ViNull.com
Scoregasm's Johari Window
Ballad of Willis Gulch
Be cool Apple, be crazy sexy cool
ASP.NET: Adding a total to gridview
Ah, the smell of irony in the morning
365 Days Later
Dick Cheney defends US from Terrorist!
My Life as a Flock Radio Producer
The pen is mightier than the sword
You're as cold as ice
.NET pays the bills
Sometimes a lawyer makes me smile
Disney Stole my Youth
The coolest fucking keyboard ever!
Cleaning out my closet
When Ducks Attack
White Light'n out a Jelly Jar
I wanna see you in FinePix pictures
Sony's New Year's Resolution... err Settlement
In the end, we are the monster
The Bitch is Back
LAME Sony, lame...
Mike Sells Out
Have a little class (action lawsuit) Sony
Sony's Apples and Oranges
All Your Base Are Belong To Sony
Sony can suck my DRM
I'm going to beat you like the red-headed clown freak you are
Sony Update
Boycott Sony-BMG
Halloween Photos
Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Great Pumpkin (Contest)
It's not paranoia if they are out to get you
For Sale: Baby shoes, never used.
What the hell is this handbasket for?
I think the past, the past is behind us... be real confusing if not
I'm still geeking out over it!
Hell in a hand basket
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22
Rachel Says Thank You!
Winning while Losing
Help Rachel get to her class party!
Dork Tuesday
Counting blue cars
Concord Park II: Once more into the beach!
I got yer blog... dangling
God Blessed Texas
Daydream On
Every Man has a Price (short story)
Where the Week Ends
The Distance Above (poem)
Inuyasha (poem)
At the Center
Cigarette, Cigarette
No Running (poem)
Diagnosis (poem)
Self Portrait (poem)
Indulgence (poem)
Rocket girl (poem)
Hollow (poem)
Dawn (poem)
Her (poem)
Oh My God, They Cloned Kenny!
Ninety-nine red balloons go by...
What the *bleep* do I know?
Rachel's Graduation from Daycare
You're Funny
A day at Concord Park
Sometimes others say it best
Sell me my childhood
Collected thoughts
The Doctor is In
Contemplate the Kool-aid
Vincent van Gogh
I want a woman who...
That song
Embrace your Heritage
Shot by six strings
Move along, nothing to see here
Open Road
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
It's probably me
Comfort Zone Violation
Such is one's lot in life
Impressions of the first kind
Kindness killed inspiration
Division by Zero
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About Michael

Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah, and loving husband to Cicelie who inflates and pops his ego as necessary.

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