For those who know me well, this will be old news.

As of last Monday, I have been a consultant with Wintellect. This new position gives me the opportunity to "get in early" and help shape a consulting organization from the ground up. I will also get to continue building my technical and management skills and perhaps have a chance to get in on some more exciting projects that leverage the newest technologies.

My two years at Intellinet were a great employment experience, and I would definately recommend them to prospective employees and clients without hesitation. I still have many good friends there. Frank Bell and the Intellinet EMT have managed to build a great working environment, and they have some of the best technical specialists in the region. I wish them the very best, as it was a very difficult decision when I decided to move on to this next phase of my career.

I used to love Berry 411 for my old Intellinet-supplied BlackBerry. But now I have a T-Mobile Dash (Windows Mobile 5) and need a good local business search / mapping tool.

Lucky for me, Windows Live Search for Mobile went final this week... and it is awsomely better than Berry 411. And by Awsome, I of course mean Totally Sweet.

If you have a Windows Mobile 5 phone, you can install it directly from http://wls.live.com/.

At this month's Atlanta Cutting Edge, I presented a short talk on basic project management and estimation using PERT techniques. This is a topic that I find most developers (and managers too!) tend to ignore because they assume it woul dbe uninteresting or perhaps "fake science". Quite the opposite is actually true, and it can be astounding how much positive impact some of these techniques can bring to a software development project.

So if you were there and requested the slides, or if you were simply not able to make it, here they are.