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Chris Beasley has launched a new Website Publisher Blog that I wanted to let you know about. Many of my friends and readers of this blog hope to someday achieve what Chris has achieved; independent success by running websites. Chris is a highly-regarded member of SitePoint and until recently maintined a blog over there. His blog is now located on his Website Publisher site. I’ve read some of his postings over at SitePoint and its definitely helped focus me. The success of people like Chris has pushed me to want to move in a similar direction. Why keep developing websites for clients if I can do it for myself and make money at it?

Stop by and say hi!

TO my UK friends… sorry looks like this is US only

1. Go to http://www.thetruth.com
2. On the bottom left of the screen, there is a dot. Drag it from City to Country.
3. Once there, wait a few secs for the cow to appear and click on it.

Wa la! Free hat.

If you are a Microsoft programmer, you most likely know who these guys are, but if not, let me introduce you to them.

As I was learning .NET a few years back, these gentleman’s books and articles were lifesavers. Here are their bios.

“Dino Esposito is a trainer and consultant based in Rome, Italy. Member of the Wintellect team, Dino specializes in ASP.NET and ADO.NET and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe and the United States. In particular, Dino manages the ADO.NET courseware for Wintellect and writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine.”

“As editor and main contributor to 4GuysFromRolla.com, a popular ASP/ASP.NET resource Web site, Scott Mitchell has authored literally hundreds of articles on Microsoft Web Technologies since 1998. In addition to his vast collection of online articles, Scott has currently authored five books on ASP/ASP.NET: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O’Reilly); and ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams), ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams), and Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott has also written a number of print magazine articles, including articles for Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine and asp.netPRO, as well as online content for Microsoft’s MSDN Web site. Scott’s non-writing accomplishments include speaking, training, and software development. Scott has spoken at numerous ASP/ASP.NET user groups and ASP.NET conferences across the country. Scott teaches classes on XML, Web Services, and ASP.NET at the University of California – San Diego University Extension, and is an independent trainer for local individuals and small businesses. Scott also works as an independent software developer, working on consulting projects and software solutions, such as creating WebForums.NET, the online messageboard forum system that was acquired by Microsoft and became the ASP.NET Forums. Scott recently completed his Masters degree in Computer Science from University of California – San Diego, and is engaged to his beautiful fiancée Jisun.”

Somehow, both of these men agreed to give me an interview which I am extremely grateful for. I’m compiling a list of interview questions for the two now. I’m sure some of the questions will be the same, but I anticipate plenty will be unique to each person as they have different areas of expertise.

If you can think of anything you’d like to ask, feel free to post it here .