Chris Koenig

My buddy and fellow DE J Sawyer is organizing a GiveCamp event over in Houston and needs your help .   Putting on a GiveCamp event takes a lot of work – coordinating charities, participants, volunteers, venue, food, prizes can easily become...

I don’t usually go in for these things, but since it was Dave O’Hara that tagged me, I have to respond: What I was doing ten years ago I was working as a Senior Microsoft Development Consultant at Step Consulting in Greensboro, NC.  I had been working...

For those of you in the Northwest Arkansas area, I'l be visiting there on Monday-Wednesday of this week visiting various user groups and customers. I've put up a calendar of my travels so that everyone can see where I'll be and if I'll be speaking. If...

According to last count , we’ve got about a bazillion user groups in South Central (that’s Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana).  Here’s some info on some upcoming user group meetings that you might be interested in: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6...

Just a reminder to everyone that the first ever Dallas XNA User Group meeting will be held on July 15th, 2008 at the SMU Guildhall .  The first meeting is all about getting to know the people who are interested in developing an XNA community in Dallas...

  It looks like the GiveCamp phenomenon is really starting to catch on! This weekend is the first ever Ann Arbor GiveCamp event.  Jennifer Marsman , a friend and fellow Developer Evangelist from the Michigan area, planned a GiveCamp event for...

Tonight marked the first ever Dallas XNA User Group meeting at the SMU Guildhall.   Most of the core group of us, as well as some new friends, were able to get together tonight to check out the venue, discuss what the group was going to cover...

Congratulations to Jennifer Marsman and the team running the Ann Arbor GiveCamp event last weekend.  What an amazing experience!  Read all about it on Jennifer’s blog .  I know from my personal experiences helping to organize and run a...

If you’re not already on the Mesh – now is a great time to join.  Here’s a recent post from the Live Mesh Blog: Interested in trying out the Live Mesh Technology Preview? The process for joining just became a lot easier. From the Live Mesh forum...

Registration is now open for Houston TechFest 2008 !  Scheduled for September 13, 2008 at the University of Houston, there are 40 sessions currently listed with more being added all the time.  According to the agenda , the list of speakers is...

My teammate Jared Bienz informed me the other day about a CodePlex project he just helped finish called VIEWS , which is a really cool Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight. It's released as a a managed layer for integrating mapping in your Silverlight...

While I was over in Poland a few weeks (or is it months now?) ago I met Gael Fraiteur, creator of the awesome Open Source .NET AOP container called PostSharp .  We had a great talk about development, trends, history and music, as I recall, but one...