In a bit of daring do, I've decided to self-host my blog instead of having it hosted at MSDN. This blog has been here for 2 years, but I'd really like to explore what it will mean to host my own blog platform, and experiement with some other technologies...

In this tough economy, are you looking to get ahead? Do you want to stand out? Microsoft Certification can help you pursue a new career in IT, move from one job role to another, or become indispensible in your existing role. Microsoft Certifications are...

The official CTP for SQL Azure (a.k.a. SQL Data Services, a.k.a. SQL Server Data Services) has now been released into the wild!  Head over to the SQL Azure Team Blog to learn more, or directly over to the SQL Azure web site to request a token and...

Not sure if everyone knows this, but SCD’s own Todd Girvin and Chris Tullier are teaming up to present a pre-conference workshop at PDC 09 titled Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010 . If you’re planning on attending PDC, I...

Come spend a day with us to explore Windows Azure™ – Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying cloud based applications – from a real world point of view! During this event, we’ll review critical lessons Microsoft IT has learned migrating internal...

As you probably heard, Windows Marketplace for Mobile has been announced as a new offering for WinMo users.  In order to get some applications up there, The WinMo team at Microsoft has created a little friendly competition called the Race to Market...

Hey everyone – got some great info about the upcoming DevCares event at TekFocus this week.  This time around the speaker is my good friend Jason Kergosien and he’s talking about DotNetNuke.  Here are all the details: DevCares July - DotNetNuke...

Yesterday, the Microsoft Tag team announced the release of their Tag API.  The Microsoft Tag API allows anyone to create Tag from the web, the desktop, mobile devices. By using the Microsoft Tag Web Services API, you can programmatically access many...

Hey everyone – the Houston TechFest site is opened up for registration!  You can visit http://houstontechfest.com and get signed up and registered for one of 12 tracks including .NET (2 tracks), Java (2 tracks), Methodology, Agile, ALT.NET, Silverlight...

Although the economic news is looking a little brighter, we know it’s still tough out there…. to help Microsoft has put together Thrive - a website that’s all about helping developers survive the recession and manage their careers in this tough economy...

Announcing the first in a series of 6 international barcamp -style events for Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 OS called WinMoDevCamp ! WinMoDevCamp is a not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for the upcoming release of the Microsoft Windows Mobile...

I’m happy to announce that Dallas GiveCamp – a.k.a. We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend – will occur on the weekend of January 15-17 at BravoTECH in Dallas.  This is the same location as the past few years – we love working with BravoTECH...

Dallas TechFest is a multi-technology, multi-disciplinary developer conference held this year it was held on June 19 th 2009 at the beautiful Westin Stonebriar Resort in Frisco, TX.  Completely organized and run by members of the local community...

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for the first ever SharePoint Saturday Dallas.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with...

One of my favorite speakers, and all around great guy Tim Rayburn will be speaking at the next installment of DevCares on one of the hottest topics around - Parallelism in .NET 4.0 .  If you haven’t seen Tim present on this topic, then I’d make every...

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘ SharePoint Saturday Ozarks’ , on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 in Harrison, AR.  SharePoint Saturday will be an educational,...

A few weeks ago I did my first ever TechNet webcast on some of the new UX enhancements in Windows 7 .  It is a free session that you can view online, you just need to register on the site to get access to the video. For those of you just now getting...

For all you Surface Fans, my colleague Jennifer Marsman has written a series of blog posts about developing on Microsoft Surface: Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? Surface Development Part 2: Surface Controls Surface Development...

I’ll be one of the panelists at the upcoming TekFocus DevCares event – join us tomorrow morning for some fun discussion around .NET! DEV CARES SERIES Dev Cares: .NET Smackdown! Click here to register. Session: With all the new acronyms and development...

Congratulations to SCD Community Champions Tim Tyrrell, Brandon King, Ben Sheirman and Becky Isserman! The Community Champion Award program is an excellent way to recognize the movers and shakers in your local community.  They give you a place to...

As computers get more powerful, disk space and memory prices continue to drop and tool require more and more power, getting a handle on how you can use virtualization to aid your development across multiple environment and multiple toolsets.  To...

For those of you that want to get a better handle on using XAML to build the next generation of Windows and Web Applications, and prefer to do it from the comfort of your own desktop, then XAMLFEST Online is for you!  Based on the wildly popular...

I haven’t link blogged in a long time, so hopefully you’ll forgive me. Saw on Anand’s blog today that the Azure team is “launching ‘ new CloudApp() ’ a US-based developer challenge to promote applications running on the Azure Services Platform .” If you...

My friend Kirk Evans has been doing an incredible video series called “ SharePoint for Developers ” out on Channel 9.  There are 5 episodes so far, and they’re all very well done.  The segments are short enough to get everything on the first...

Viacom/ MTV announced a web based Digital Asset Management Workflow application completely built in Silverlight 3 (of course using the beta bits for now) and .Net 3.5. This is very cool, not just because it is an early adoption of Silverlight 3, but because...