Found 2 new articles from CoDe Magazine : Microsoft XNA - Ready for Prime Time? and Introducing XNA Game Studio Express . The author of the second article, George W. Clingerman, runs a great web site called XNADevelopment.com . If you're interested in...

I don't normally get a lot of time to read books just for fun - usually I'm doing my best just to keep up with email, blog postings, and the occasional technical book. Recently my good friend Phil Wheat , our AE down here in South Central, suggested a...

OK - it's official! Dallas BarCamp 4 will be held somewhere in Dallas on September 29th, 2007. I say somewhere, because we're not sure yet where we're going to be able to to hold it. If you've got a location that might hold about 200 people during the...

Event Details: Guest Speaker: Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager, .NET Framework When : Thursday, August 30th, 3 – 4 PM PST Where : Visual Studio Island Auditorium in Second Life How to join the event: If you’re already a member of Second Life, you can...

Congratulations to Jeffrey and Liana Palermo on the birth of their daughter Gwyneth Rose! http://www.flickr.com/photos/palermo/sets/72157601707151891 Jeffrey said to check back on the Flickr site in a few days as more pictures will be posted. Congrats...

Chris Menegay, Microsoft Regional Director and Principal at Notion Solutions has written Part 2 in a two-part series on ALM and the Microsoft Stack. Go check it out! Application Lifecycle Management – Part 2 – Understanding the Microsoft Stack by Chris...

Most every developer I know is a gamer - at least on some level. Some are totally into shooters like Halo or BioShock , or realtime strategy and MMORPGs like Halo Wars , WoW or Age of Empires , or those of you like me are interested in Role Playing games...

Here's a note from the DFW SharePoint User Group - you know that I'll be there... Save the date! The November meeting will be on November 6 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Bill English, Microsoft MVP and author of SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit...

I had a great time at the First Annual Houston TechFest on Saturday. Official attendance count was 476 (WOW!), not counting all of us that presented or had booths in the hallway. A humongous THANK YOU goes out to Michael, Michelle, John and everyone at...

Rob, ScottD, Jason, ScottWater and all of our good friends over at Telligent Systems are running a 2-day development camp for their flagship product, Community Server. Here's the full information straight from the source! ========== Announcing the First...

OK - So maybe you already know this, but I'm a total Keyboard Junkie. The mouse is really cool for a lot of things, but with Office, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and get "distracted" by the mouse as little as possible. With many of the new...

I'm happy to announce that Microsoft will be sponsoring, participating and speaking at the upcoming Webmaster Jam Session 2007 in Dallas, TX on Sept 21 and 22 at the Adam's Mark Hotel downtown. This is a great event for bringing designer and developers...

I know I'm not always the first to blog about stuff (I'm working on that) but I wanted to make sure that I sent out an announcement about Microsoft Tafiti - http://www.tafiti.com . Tafiti is a new take on the search engine metaphor that builds on the...

I don't know if any of you have run into this problem yet, but it's freaky. Basically what I've seen is WPF applications created in VS2K5 then converted to Orcas B2 give the following error: IOException: Cannot locate resource blah.xaml Not sure what...

The Business Data Catalog Definition Editor has been included in the newest release of the MOSS2007 SDK. It has been designed to assist in the lifecycle management for Application Definition files. The tool enables searching over databases and web service...

Looks like this weekend is going to be *very* busy for me :-) I'm presenting a 2-part session at Houston TechFest on Microsoft Expression Studio and Microsoft Silverlight, and then driving right over to the Houston BarCamp to present on Microsoft Silverlight...

Anyone want to go with me to see Styx, Foreigner and Def Leppard ? I realize this completely gives my age away, but if you're interested let me know. I already missed Rush last week because of a camping trip, and Weird Al a few weeks ago because I was...

Technorati Tags: IIS , Windows , Server , ASP.NET A couple of interesting quote from an article in Macworld: “If the trend from previous surveys holds, IIS 7 should be the dominant web server for Fortune 1000 sites by 2011.” "Microsoft ASP.NET and ASP...

Cory Smith , VB.NET MVP over there in Forth Worth has launched a new User Group called the ".NET User Experience User Group", or DNUX for short. Follow Cory's blog at addressof.com for more information as this group comes more into focus and starts their...

For those of you who spend a lot of time dealing with XML data, you might be interested in this add-in for Visual Studio: IronXSLT . Written by XML MVP Oleg Tkachenko , IronXSLT aims to provide complete integration of XSLT into the VS08 environment. Features...

Interesting news from the world of online music - I'll let you draw your own conclusions... BetaNews | Universal Goes DRM Free, But Not on iTunes

We met this morning to determine the date for the upcoming CommunityFest - we settled on Feb 16, 2008. So - mark your calendars now and reserve the date. We'll host the event in Dallas somewhere, but we haven't figured out where yet. I'll have a much...

I just set up my Technorati Profile and was told I needed to put this tag in a new blog post so that my account will get activated correctly, so here it is...

For those of you interested in what the future holds for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, codename "Rosario", there are a bunch of resources out there available on the net to quench your VSTS thirst. I've listed some of them here to make it easy on...

Michael Steinberg, John Ebeling and the rest of the HDNUG gang have put together a great program this year for the Houston TechFest . Brad Abrams , GM for the UI FX team at Microsoft (the folks that bring you Winforms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, and more...