CALL FOR SPEAKERS // REGISTRATION OPEN What - Orlando CodeCamp 2011 When - Saturday, March 26, 2011 Where - Seminole Community College( map ) URL and Twitter contact points - http://www.orlandocodecamp.com , #orlandocc Why - sessions by pros and amateurs...

One of the esteemed Florida dotneterati was building a download link for his app, and sent me a query the other today asking "Is there designed for window phone 7 logo or a marketplace logo I can use like the {insertfruitphonemanufacturerhere} one? "...

Light up your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Some folks were noticably irked that the only Florida cities being hit with the MSDN Silverlight Firestarters were Miami and Tampa. So I decided to take some of the content out on the road for a user group...

Know some students in high school or college who love to code? Why not talk to them about the Imagine Cup ? The imagine cup is a contest where students compete in categoreis like gaming, IT and software design. They can be from high school or college...

photos from 2010 South Florida CodeCamp CALL FOR SPEAKERS // REGISTRATION OPEN What - South Florida .NET CodeCamp VII When - Saturday, February 12, 2011 Where - NOVA Southeastern University, Davie, FL ( map ) URL and Twitter contact points...

I started working on some samples for showing Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL) on Windows 7 and needed some sensors to play with to showcase the NESL sensor support. Unfortunately the HP EliteBook 8540w has bubkes for sensors pre-installed on...

REGISTRATION OPEN What: SQL Saturday Tampa When: Saturday, January 15, 2011 Where: KForce, Ybor - Tampa, FL - map URL - http://www.sqlsaturday.com/62/eventhome.aspx , Why: Over 40 sessions, with over 300 registered with a full day of smoking SQL related...

Upcoming Microsoft oriented events in Florida for 2011-Jan-03 and beyond. A full list as live as I can keep it can be found at http://www.devfish.net/DevCommunities.aspx . Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida ::...

Light up your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Windows 7 and Silverlight make for a fantastic platform to build and deploy applications. Together, you have the power to build smart, visually stunning applications that truly light up. Want to learn how to...

TechNet Events Presents: Transforming IT with Cloud Computing Firestarter East Coast Tour - Winter 2011 Cloudy on the East Coast for IT Pros What does Cloud mean for the ITPros? Here's your opportunity to dive in with some experts. Four sessions make...

Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida Lakeland .NET ( http://www.lakelandug.net ) Dec-14 Silverlight and RIA Services with David Silverlight Orlando SQL Server Group ( http://orlando.sqlpass.org/ ...

One core tenent for me in my job at the Florida Developer Evangelist for Microsoft has always been "help make Florida a great place to do software development". In Microsoft terms that's called supported the Local Software Economy. Ya'll may snuff at...

Florida alumni John Papa has released a new Sivlerlight Training Series of labs as announced at the Silverlight FireStarter. There are elevent labs and video walkthroughs. Source is in both VB and C#. The kit can be downloaded from http://www.silverlight...

There's a sweet new toolkit out called Native Extensions for Silverlight ( NESL ) . Silverlight friendly hooks to a number of native Windows 7 features you can use in your Silverlight applicatons. The libraries make it significantly easier to leverage...

The holidays are much more fun since I've got 8 and 6 year old kids. I get to buy me, er I mean them, lots of cool stuff. So I've bought me a cool new HD7 Windows Phone. What kind of holiday things have I found to light up my phone? Here's two. First...

I'm specifically looking for apps from Florida developers.... Sooo, got an App on Windows Phone 7? Want a free tshirt and maybe some cash? Click here for details - http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9754016 . Contest expires December 31, 2010.

Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida Microsoft ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/events ) Dec-02 ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter - Orlando Orlando DotNetNuke ( http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net ) Dec-07...

I'm a huge fan of the Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit. Free controls, with source code, and sample projects showing you how to use them. On November 2, 2010 the WP7 SLTK team released some new controls into the toolkit. I thought I'd point them out...

Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida Deerfield Beach Coders Cafe ( http://www.fladotnet.com ) Dec-07 Windows Phone 7 with Joe Healy Lakeland .NET ( http://www.lakelandug.net ) Nov-16 Silverlight Line...

CNET Download.com and Windows 7 are partnering to provide developers an opportunity to have their application showcased by Microsoft and CNET Download.com , simply by making your application light up on Windows 7 with one of 13 qualifying features. Qualifying...

FLADEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY Jay Kimble (Tampa) on Panorama and Tombstoning John McFetridge (Gainesville) with his Building a WP7 Stock Quoting App series on the Silverlight show Christopher Bennage (Tallahassee) on Visual Studio Tools for Iron...

Upcoming Microsoft Developer focused events in Florida that I know about from 11/1/2010 and forward. Know of any groups with upcoming meetings in this list email me! Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central...

Ryan Dorrell and the AgileThought guys are putting on a FREE PDC viewing social at the Microsoft offices in Tampa. Good chance to mingle and watch the fun happening this Friday with the sessions and announcements coming from Microsoft! I regret I wont...

Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update is out. Rough overview of features and download link are below. Recommend everyone pull this. Sizewise its only about 2 meg, an easy download. What’s in the October 2010 Update Windows Phone...

As of this writing, the Tallahassee .NET CodeCamp V , being held this Saturday, October 23, is at 213 registrants. TLHCCV should be fantastic event with over 42 submitted sessions, and 32 speakers on the agenda. If you're interested in a fun time with...