dougturn's WebLog

My territory as a Developer Evangelist is within the Southeastern US, specifically Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. A recent conversation got me thinking about our most influential bloggers down here. While this is not a scientific survey, I asked several...

Are you interested in learning more about the next generation of web-oriented technologies? If so, please join us for a half-day seminar on the new and improved suite of tools and technologies from Microsoft that will better empower you to design and...

Join the Visual Studio .NET User Group on Tuesday, August 14th,2007, beginning at 6:00 PM at the Intergraph Corporation Building 15b Auditorium. Wally McClure will present 'Visual Studio .NET 2008 (Orcas)'. As usual, there will be free pizza, soft drinks...

10 differences: http://shoutat.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-silverlight-vs.html

While we're on the *Silverlight* and *10 things* topic, Shawn has a very informative article per the link below: http://adoguy.com/2007/08/07/New_Article_10_Things_You_Should_Know_About_Microsoft_s_Silverlight.aspx

http://www.alabamacodecamp.com/ Stay tuned for more details - lots of things in the works...

A group of DEs showed up at the Greenville, SC .NET User Group last night. We had a great time answering questions, and the legendary Keith Brown did a security talk. To top (or maybe bottom) it all off, we did an improv show for them that we called ...

Kudos to Tim Pickens , rocket scientist extraordinaire, and my brother in law, for yet another article, this time in Air and Space Smithsonian . http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/In_Thrust_We_Trust.php?page=1 Aside from being in the Guiness...

Thanks to everyone who made it out for our Visual Studio 2008 seminar in Jackson Mississippi last week. Chad , Keith , and myself greatly appreciate the chance to talk with you about our developer tools. We wanted to make our material available to you...

Having attended Shawn's events before, this is well worth your time if you are in the area. http://adoguy.com/2008/02/06/Free_Silverlight_Seminar_in_Dallas_TX.aspx

Linq guru and VB MVP Jim Wooley published his first book this week, along with Fabrice Marquerie and Steve Eichert . There's a ton of good info in this book, and also at his newly launched website, ThinqLinq . Congrats, Jim on a well-written book. BTW...

This is a pretty cool gadget that gives a VS 2008 tip each day. It's powered by Microsoft's own Sara Ford, PM for CodePlex. You can (and should) get it here: http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=9ececfa9-f0cc-4274-b321-2ec49ce2e8ff

At a dinner the other night, I spoke with a few people who are active in the Steel City SQL User Group , which is a great place for IT professionals that use SQL Server to meet and exchange ideas. These kind of meetings are really where you find the heartbeat...

The four-part learning series entitled BizTalk Basics, authored by Karl Rissland, has been recorded, and is available for download from .NET University . Many thanks to Mark Berry and Karl for recording the content. PowerPoint slides with full speaker...

Microsoft MVP Keith Elder is putting together a Geek Dinner for any and all technology-oriented folks, on February 4th, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Microsoft's own Sara Ford will be there (wow, she's already blogged it ) as will Chad Brooks and myself...

We're currently accepting speaker applications for this upcoming code camp. If you would like to speak at the event, feel free to download and submit the speaker form here : http://www.alabamacodecamp.com/ The event will be at Virginia College in Huntsville...

http://adoguy.com/2008/01/01/Win_a_Seat_to_the_Silverlight_Tour.aspx This looks fairly entertaining. Give it your best shot, and you may win a seat in Shawn's Silverlight Tour in Atlanta. BTW, I've taken Shawn's class, and it's a terrific way to learn...

Glen Gordon did a nice job pulling this MSDN event list together . January 8 - Portland, ME January 8 - Greenville, SC January 10 - Columbus, GA January 10 - Boston, MA January 15 - Norwalk, CT January 17 - Burlington, MA January 22 - Worcester, MA January...

Join HUNTUG on Monday, March 17th, 2008, beginning at 6:00 PM at the Intergraph Corporation Building 15b Auditorium, for a 'Heroes Community Launch Event' presented by Ginger Cochran and Arthur Henley and Charllie Trinca (assisting). The event will focus...

If you live in or around Mobile, Alabama, LANUG is meeting on March 25th. The meeting starts at 6:00PM... here are the full details: LANUG Meeting – Bill Wood - 3/25/2008 6:00 PM Speaker : Bill Wood, IT Consultant, City of Mobile Topic : Using Asp.Net...

The FIRST Augusta Developers Guild meeting will be held on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 6 PM at Augusta State University . Chris Eargle will be presenting on C# 3.0 (.NET 3.5). Please RSVP so we know how much food to order! About the Augusta Developers...

Robert be speaking at the Steel City SQL Group on Tuesday, February 19 th . The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at New Horizons Learning Center in Homewood, Alabama. The subject will be “Introduction to SQL Server Full Text Searching”. Come learn how to setup...

Last night I finally got to meet the folks that started the Pee Dee .NET UG . Nice group, with some good momentum in the area. Glad to meet you folks. If you want the slides, I posted them here . If you live in the Pee Dee area, you ought to go...

The Charlotte portals Code Camp just got even more horsepower! We have enlisted Ted Pattison and David Leininger as speakers. Ted Pattison is a published author and an industry-leading trainer and consultant who specializes in building portal applications...

David Chappell will be in town to deliver a talk about Indigo to our humble VB.NET Study group on May18th. The meeting will take place at the Microsoft campus in Alpharetta: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/info/usaoffices/southeast/alpharetta.mspx...