Hello! It's pretty exciting that AppDev has created the Edge to give instructors, courseware authors, and students a chance to exchange ideas and get feedback and learning all the technologies coming out these days. The pace of technological change seems to be getting faster all the time, so it's hard to figure out what is worth exploring and what is maybe interesting but not worth using in a production application. And what should just be immediately discarded. I used to be a decent generalist, but there is just too much to learn to be good at everything anymore, even "just" with Microsoft technologies!
Of late, I've worked with Ken Getz on ASP.NET courseware, and Frank Tillinghast on SQL Server 2008 courseware. I've been teaching AppDev material for more than a decade, and writing courseware and doing videos for several years. Here is my semi-official biography, mostly covering my professional life:
Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing secure desktop and Web applications that integrate databases and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and XML. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, many of which you’re likely to see in the bargain bin at your local mega-bookstore. He writes regularly for many industry journals, including Visual Studio Magazine, MSDN Magazine, CoDe Magazine, and asp.netPRO. Don trains developers and speaks regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, SQL PASS, VSLive!, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others, and is a member of the INETA and MSDN Canada speaker bureaus. He writes courseware for AppDev and records instructional videos for them. Don is a full member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Colorado, but fortunately learned the error of his ways. In his spare time he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, and kayak. He is President of Second Chance League, a 501(c)3 non-profit sleddog rescue organization in Interior Alaska. Contact him at donkiely@computer.org.
I often have examples in the courseware I write of dogs and dog-powered sports. That's because my partner Carol and I have 31 dogs, most of whom are working sleddogs. We also have several retired sleddogs who are living out their days roaming free in our fenced yard, as well as a few who choose not to be sleddogs. We also have the occasional non-sleddog, such as Mardy, our Irish Shedder, who has never quite forgiven me for bringing her to live with sleddogs! Harrumph! 
Thanks for visiting my new AppDev Edge blog! I hope that over the coming months that I'll provide some useful information about the technologies I cover in courseware and related topics.