Dallas-area BizTalk MVP Tim Rayburn gives us the scoop on the newly announced Microsoft Oslo project, which will bring further technological advancements to Microsoft's Software+Services, SOA, MDD and Composite Application platforms. Check out Tim's reaction...

For those of you that have been following the tidal wave of interest in XNA Game development , there's a conference coming up soon that you might find interesting.  This year's Indie MMO Game Developers Conference is happening at the Minneapolis...

CoDe Magazine recently published an article by Microsoft Solution Architect MVP Jeffrey Palermo about the new Microsoft MVC Framework for ASP.NET: On October 6, 2007, Scott Guthrie officially unveiled the ASP.NET MVC Framework at the AltNetConf in Austin...

I spoke last week at the Dallas ASP.NET User Group meeting about IIS 7.0 . The talk ended a little earlier than I expected, so we opened things up to general questions, and just started discussing whatever came up. One question I asked the group was ...

I totally forgot! Code to Live posted the interview I did with Rob Howard about Microsoft releasing the Source Code for much of the .NET framework - here's the snippet from the Code to Live web site: In this show, Rob Howard and Richard Hale Shaw...

If you're interested at all in Microsoft Silverlight , then you MUST start following and contributing to SilverlightAddict.com .  This Community Server based site, run by Roger Guess, is a new Silverlight developer portal containing a blog and forums...

You guys care about community, right?  So does Jake McKee, a.k.a. "The Community Guy".  Located here in Dallas, Jake is all about Community - and not just the developer community...  If you're interested in learning more about...

This past weekend saw the Tulsa TechFest come back to the OSU Campus in Tulsa.  Tulsa TechFest 2007 was held over a 2 day period this year (Oct 19-20) instead of one, and contained 16 session tracks that included topics ranging from development on...

Microsoft announced today at the Web 2.0 Summit that Microsoft Popfly , our Silverlight -based Mashup Editor, will enter a Public Beta, and no longer be invitation-only. This is great news for fans of the popular Popfly as they will no longer have to...

If you've ever seen Tim present on this topic, you know how cool his presentations are.  Here's a screencast of Tim doing is much requested "New Features in C# 3.0".  http://flash.timrayburn.net/introtocsharp3/ Technorati Tags: .net...

Have you seen the new Live Search Maps ?  Launched today, the new interface is a LOT simpler to use, and a lot faster (it seems) to load and find results.  The Windows Live Search team has really been busy getting and incorporating all the feedback...

This post just saved my life.  I've been working on getting a VPC image set up for use in our upcoming Silverlight DevCamp , but wasn't able to get the networking working.  I'd used VPCs before, and they'd worked great - but I hadn't tried Windows...

Registrations are on the rise!  Make sure you get your name out there for the upcoming Silverlight DevCamp here in Dallas!   Technorati Tags: Silverlight , .NET , Events

Check out the latest Code to Live show on Channel 9 - this episide contains an interview I did last week with Rob Howard , CEO of Telligent Systems , and Microsoft Regional Director . Our topic was the recent announcement by Scott Guthrie of the release...

Microsoft and Zend announced this morning at the Zend/PHP Conference in San Francisco a couple of new initiatives that PHP and Windows developers will find interesting: First, Zend and Microsoft announced they will continue work on FastCGI and scalable...

Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the first ever ALT.NET conference , held in beautiful Austin, TX. Not only was it a great excuse to visit one of my favorite cities in the US, and see my Mom (who never thinks we bring the kids over...

I just got back today from the ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference in Austin, and haven't had a chance to catch up on too much as I'm flying out tomorrow to the Zend PHP Conference in San Francisco.  At the risk of embarrassing myself (which, for me,...

I didn't know about this today, but there is (and has been for some time apparantly) an Agile Development Center on MSDN.  Please check it out!

Perhaps this could be my new cell phone.  Yes I know that I just got one recently, but it's never wrong to buy a new phone-toy to play with. AT&T today unveiled its first Windows Mobile 6-enabled smartphone, the Tilt. Named for its 2.8"...

I just posted all my pictures from WMJ07 on my Flickr site . 

BarCamp Dallas was a BLAST!  I didn't get to stay there nearly as long as I'd have liked, but I did manage to have fun talking with several people about Silverlight .  Most of the questions were around "what's the reality behind the hype"...

Security researchers look beyond Vista | InfoWorld | News | 2007-10-02 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service Here's a couple of fun quotes from the article: The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers...

Today, at 9am PST, Microsoft announced here and here that we will be releasing the source code to some parts of the .NET Framework Libraries under the Microsoft Reference License .  I'm no licensing expert, so I've grabbed a snippet from the license...

A few weekends ago Phil and I attended the 2007 Webmaster Jam Session here in Dallas. The conference was targeted at web developers, designers and webmasters from various technological backgrounds to get everyone together to talk about web design and...