Hi, I'm Steve Smith. I go by Ardalis online because, well, you'd understand if your name was Steve Smith.
This is now the fifth place I've had a blog, if you don't count my initial home page and articles on ASPAlliance.com, which were somewhat blog-like but preceded the term. Unlike my past blog moves (from the ASP.NET/blogs site to AspAdvice.com/blogs and my ArmySteve.com / ArmyAdvice.com/blogs/ArmySteve blogs, and then from there to SteveSmithBlog.com), this time I'm pulling everything into one place. So far I only have the most recent stuff here, but soon you should see content dating back to 10 years ago, all in one easy to find location.
If you're here, you've found my blog. You may also wish to stalk me via other means:
Here's some more info on me, which is slightly outdated at the moment (Jan 2012).
Steve Smith is currently a Senior Architect with The Code Project and CTO of Lake Quincy Media, which he co-founded in 2005. He also founded and continues to run ASPAlliance.com, a popular resource for Microsoft programmers. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, an ASP.NET MVP (profile), an INETA Speaker, and an ASPInsider. He's written or contributed to several books on ASP.NET and related topics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as DevConnections and TechEd. Steve also founded and organizes the Hudson Software Craftsmanship group in Hudson, Ohio, where he and his wife Michelle also own office space and she manages their agile consulting company, NimblePros.com.
Steve is a US Army veteran who served in Iraq as a combat engineer platoon leader tasked with finding and destroying unexploded ordnance and clearing IEDs. He received his honorable discharge as an army Captain in 2005 and is now happy to be 100% a civilian.
Steve lives in Ohio with his wife and business partner Michelle, their daughter Ilyana, and son Nikita. When he's not trying to keep up with his business or technology, Steve enjoys games, bicycling, and karate.
History
In January 2012 I moved my blog from SteveSmithBlog.com to Ardalis.com, which is shorter, more memorable, and lines up with my twitter alias.
In July 2008 I moved my blog from AspAdvice.com/blogs/ssmith to my own domain, SteveSmithBlog.com. I'm keeping all the old content at the old blog, as well as my previous Army blog that I kept while I was in Iraq in 2004.
