Coming this weekend to 1776 in DC, NodeCember! [free registration] Here’s the awesome trailer I came up with for the event!

Two years after I first published the Screen Scraper’s Manifesto, a more refined version (with more refined tooling) gets published into MSDN Magazine. Mike Desmond explained it best his Editor’s Note: Frank La Vigne addresses the budgetary challenges facing many government entities, as he …

In this video, learn how Node Tools for Visual Studio makes a Node.js developer’s life easier.  

Watch this episode of Frank’s World TV to learn more about the MBIA and its impact on the state’s economy.

My first thought was “or does he?” It would help bankroll his North Pole Operations. Oh, what a world we live in.

You may have noticed that blog post frequency has dropped dramatically over the last few months. Part of that is my new role at Microsoft and part of it is my recent foray into vlogging (video blogging) aka Frank’s World TV. The astute among you may have noticed my shift in focus from public sector …

It’s true! Get free software from Microsoft for your startup? Check it out at http://frnk.us/TryBizSpark I’m not so sure about the aliens though.  

Now that Thanksgiving is over and everything is cleaned up, it’s time to decorate the house for Christmas. Yes, we need a little Christmas, right this very moment.  

Only dogs look forward to the “Great Thanksgiving Post-Meal Clean Up.”  

From all of us in the extended LaVigne family to all of you: Happy Thanksgiving. As an aside, I’m very proud of the special effects in this one. It’s been about one year since I started contemplating a Vlog.  I’m doing stuff that seemed like sorcery just 6 months ago. 

Eighteen years ago today, I uploaded the first few files to my ISP provided disk space and launched Frank’s World. History of Frank’s World Last year, I wrote two in depth articles on the history of this site. Part 1: from the beginning to August 2001 Part 2: Sept. 11 to 2012 Look for more …

This morning, most of the DC area is following the unfortunate events at the Navy Yard. Like many people these days, I checked social media sites to get up to the minute information. I was treated to this poorly placed ad by Dove. #Fail.   This is probably more a function of Twitter’s ad …

This week on Frank’s World TV, I sit down with Evan Burfield, co-founder of 1776, to talk about the start up scene in DC.

NetTuts has a great (and free) tutorial on Node.JS. I know what you’re thinking: “JavaScript on the Server! You’re insane you are!” There was a time that I pronounced all JavaScript evil, but learned to stop worrying and love the language. After playing around with JavaScript creating Windows 8 …

Kicking off Startup September with an overview of 1776: a business incubator in downtown DC. Learn more about 1776 at http://1776dc.com 

I came across this free online course from EDUonix for HTML5. It’s worth watching to get started with HTML5. .

Starting on September 5th, the new season of FWTV Launches with “Startup September!” Here’s another video teaser of Season 2. For what it’s worth, the video was posted in time for the holiday. Just not this blog post.

I got a new work laptop. It’s a tablet PC convertible. Like a Transformer, there’s more than meets the eye in this episode of Frank’s World TV.