Brief Bio

Steve Smith is co-founder of Lake Quincy Media, the Microsoft Developer Ad Network, and ASPAlliance.com, a popular software professional web site (both owned by The Code Project).  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 conventions such as DevConnections and Tech Ed.  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.

About This Site

 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.

Update (April 2010): I'm considering consolidating all of my blogs into one, either at this domain or another one.  Thinking WordPress this time since it has such a large following.