February, 2010

I’ve been collecting some links to share with my readers for a bit, so without much ado, and in no particular order is some tech potpourri…enjoy! Azure Pricing comparison: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/popup.aspx?lang=en&locale=en-US&offer...

The first webcast is already in the books, but you can still catch two more webcasts on Bing Maps Server,  a new offering allowing enterprises to take advantage of Bing Maps behind the firewall: On February 24 (that’s this Wednesday!) at 8AM Pacific...

Mark Miller of EndUserSharePoint.com will be at Richmond SharePoint User Group on March 9th for a lunch session: EndUserSharePoint.com is one of the largest SharePoint Communities on the planet! Join Mark Miller for a FREE seminar on March 9 from 12:00...

Local jQuery UI team member Richard D. Worth has kicked off a couple of local jQuery meetup groups in our area, so if you enjoy working with jQuery, and want to spend some time with your peers, either learning more, or sharing what you know (or both)...

Just saw the following over at Marc Schweigert’s blog : http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/webapptoolkits/ “These FREE Web App Toolkits help you complete common web development tasks and quickly add new features to your apps. Whether it’s Bing Maps...

Just accidentally discovered a nifty shortcut to quickly increase the text size in the Visual Studio 2010 code editor…just hold down Ctrl, and use the mouse scroll wheel to quickly increase or decrease the size of the text. I’m definitely gonna use this...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are...

I just realized that I failed last week to post a link to my materials from my Silverlight Lessons Learned session at Richmond .NET UG . You can find the code and deck (these are from a previous delivery, but they’re mostly the same) on my SkyDrive site...

Thanks to all the folks who came out last night for my Intro to jQuery presentation last night at Charlottesville .NET . Apart from the whole getting lost thanks to my GPS refusing to acknowledge the new location of the group, I had a great time. As...

Just a quick heads-up, in case you’re having issues with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate crashing when you use IntelliSense, there’s a bug in the RC that apparently is affecting primarily those with tablet PCs, external Wacom tablets, multi-touch...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are...

Given some of the recent discussions and debates over the value of ASP.NET Web Forms (with which I have deep experience) and ASP.NET MVC , I thought I would immerse myself more deeply into MVC. To that end, I’m doing some prototyping with the ASP.NET...

I’ve been giving some thought to how I can better leverage various communications and social media to help promote the great work that folks in the Microsoft Developer Community (and beyond) are doing, and one of the channels I’ve been using is Twitter...