If you’re interested in coming to MIX ‘09 (and who isn’t) make sure that you register by February 13 to receive $400 off the conference price – that’s a full conference pass for only $995.   To take advantage of this offer , go to registration...

I wrote about this guy a while back and the amazing stuff he was doing with the WII remotes .  Now you can hear him talk IN PERSON at the upcoming MIX 09 conference.  Here’s the info on his session: Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote...

Just in from the Azure Services team: We are excited to announce that we have released an update to the Windows® Azure™ SDK and Visual Studio Tools. These latest releases are available here: Windows Azure SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=130232...

Heere ye, heere ye!  Houston TechFest is right around the corner!  You’ll remember that the original date was sometime back in August of last year, but had to be rescheduled because of Ike.  Now, Houston TechFest is back in full force and...

Interested in getting your own Visual Studio Team Suite MSDN Subscription?  Don’t have the dough to shell out for it?  Then you need to check out Caleb Jenkins' latest blog post .  He’s been on a weight-loss tear recently and decided to...

is now available for public download: Enjoy!

Jay Smith, one of the awesome community leaders in Northwest Arkansas, has created a new podcast series called User Group Radio .  The idea behind this podcast series is best summed up by jay Smith in the first UGR blog post: Over the last several...

Just announced at Steve Ballmer’s keynote at CES in Las Vegas , Windows 7 Beta will be available to the public starting on Friday as a limited rollout: On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows...

When I first started as a Developer Evangelist almost 2 years ago (WOW – time flies), the very first thing I was asked to do was connect with the folks in SCD that were running the local DevCares events and make sure that they had the support they needed...

Mike Holdorf and Vince Blasberg have collaborated on putting together the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Cloud Computing User Group on January 21 from 6-8pm in the Dallas MTC.  It’s great to see the community so excited about embracing the...

Some of our friends in Atlanta put this awesome video together of the latest MDC event from Atlanta.  Remember that the Dallas MDC is coming up soon – January 26th, 2009.  For more information, and to get registered today, go out to http://msdndevcon...

Sorry things have been so quiet on this blog, but I just got back from my first 2-week vacation since I’ve been at Microsoft and it’s been GREAT!  I (almost) totally unplugged from everything related to my job, and tried to enjoy just *being*. ...