Very cool - this looks like it's going to come in very handy for me. Maybe you too? It seems the Google folks have just launched a new Code Search service at www.google.com/codesearch . They have indexed publicly accessible source code from all across...

Continuing our look behind the scenes of the SoCal .NET Technical Summit II developer conference, I discuss how some of the session topics to be presented by Rocky Lhotka, Scott Stanfield and Russ Nemhauser came about....

Ever what goes into the process of selecting speakers for a developer conference? Who are these speakers, what are their qualifications and how do they get chosen?...

Announcing the SoCal .NET Technical Summit II at the Hilton Irvine on Saturday, September 23rd, featuring Rocky Lhotka, Bill Vaughn, Markus Egger, and more. Early bird registration only until Monday, September 4th for just $79....

OK, i know my posts have been very intermittent and matter of fact to the point of desiccation recently (ever since i was asked by Windows Vista to expunge one of my posts - it was their IP, intellectual property, watchdogs too). So you know what this...

The still newish .NET user group in Santa Barbara is going strong. Their third meeting is coming up on Tuesday, December 13th, with Microsoft's other SoCal developer evangelist, Gerald Walsh, coming up to present on some of the new features in the .NET...

Developers know that user groups are a great way to learn more about .NET, network with your local peers and even reach out to the broader community of developer notables from afar. Now it's time for Santa Barbara to join in the action along with all...

As you have likely heard already, the grand launch for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 will be on November 7th and I can't think of a better opportunity to immerse yourself in education on these two massive product sets than the Developer Connections...

For those of you who attended my Webcast this morning on developing for the Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition from Visual Studio 2005, you can now download the sample code and compiled solution . There were no slides, just a brief introduction...

OK, I've been soliciting for interested parties in the SoCal edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter since almost forever, it's finally time to get things started for Santa Barbara's very own .NET user group now that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005...

OK, let's see if this blog posting can successfully avoid inciting the guardian watch-dogs of Windows Vista intellectual property... I really still don't know what was so objectionable in my last posting , especially in this new era of supposed transparency...

So much for transparency... I guess it only applies to whatever is OK for you to know.

The PDC 2005 conference is returning to the Los Angeles Convention Center between September 11th and 16th. While I've only lived in Los Angeles (county) a short while, I have either stayed at or temporarily visited most of the downtown Los Angeles...

For those of you who attended my Webcast yesterday and wanted to download the sample application from it, you can now find this via http://www.msdn.tv/BernardWong . Many thanks to MaximumASP.NET for hosting this site (it's only been a few hours now but...

I received my custom advance order of six hundred of these - one for each attendee of the SoCal .NET Technical Summit coming up this Saturday in Long Beach, CA. If you're like me and lack the patience (and phat pipes) to download several Gigabytes of...

Yup, here's another exclusive developer conference discount offer for readers of this blog. If you've been sitting on the fence about going to VS Live! Las Vegas , let me sweeten the pot for you... How about a $500 discount off the standard rate of...

If software security is your thing, Software Development Times (SDTimes) is putting together an entire conference just for you! It runs from April 12th to 14th in La Jolla, California (a rather fashionable suburb just north of San Diego which translates...

Registration is now open for the inaugural edition of the SoCal .NET Technical Summit to be held Saturday, May 7th. For the past few months, I've been working with the various .NET user groups in SoCal to organize this one day developer conference...

Later this week, Ken Henderson, author of the Guru's Guide to SQL Server series of books is coming to Los Angeles. As I blogged previously last week, Ken will be presenting at the L.A. SQL Server Professionals Group meeting on Thursday night and then...

We know there is a lot of pent-up demand for a .NET developer group in Tucson. We even tried to get one off the ground last fall - apologies to those of you who tried to get to it but ended up in the wrong place... This time around, we have a Tucson local...

On Saturday, February 19th, the Los Angeles SQL Server Professionals Group will host a special full-day workshop at UCLA featuring Ken Henderson, Microsoft Senior Escalation Engineer and author of the Guru's Guide to SQL Server series of books , and Paul...

This will be of interest for all you developers in Southern California (or thinking about visiting here). There is a new Developer Community Web site for Southern California available now on microsoft.com Here, you will be able to find an events calendar...

Wow! This is so cool, I can hardly believe we're just giving this stuff away. There is a very special offer going on now through November 30, 2004 to coincide with a series of free ASP.NET technical training Webcasts from Ken Getz, Rob Howard, Fritz Onion...

Woo-hoo! Thanks to Pima Community College, we have a location for the inaugural meeting. This will be held at Pima Community College, 4905 E. Broadway Blvd., Building C, Room 105 from 6:30-9:00pm on Tuesday, October 26th. For this first meeting, I'm going...

Yesterday, an inquiry came up internally over e-mail about whether a .NET implementation of the PL/I language existed. This caught my eye because PL/I was the first language that I encountered on a mainframe (at the University of Toronto, from whom I...