Two new events to announce, both of which have opened their call for speakers: SQL Saturday DC will be held on December 4th, 2010 at the Microsoft office in Reston, VA. You can find the call for speakers here . SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach will...

Ever wonder what a developer evangelist does? Ever have a question that you just wanted to noodle over with someone? Ever wonder how you could get access to a Windows Phone 7 device to test out your app on? I think I may have an answer for you. I’m instituting...

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: Webinar: Implementing Custom OData Providers Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:00 AM, Online In this session we will analyze...

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: Webinar: Powering the ASP.NET MVC User Experience with jQuery Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:00 AM, Online Most developers...

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: Webinar: Intro to Machine Learning for .NET Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:00 AM, Online The purpose of this session...

The latest episode of the Community Megaphone Podcast is up! In this episode, Dane and I talk to David Hoerster from Pittsburgh, PA. David Hoerster, who has been working with the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early 1.0 betas, is the owner of AgileWays...

Just a quick reminder that I’ll be at the Richmond Code Camp tomorrow, doing dual-duty of recording interviews for the Community Megaphone Podcast , as well as helping folks test their Windows Phone 7 apps on an actual device, which I’ll have with me...

Tonight I’m presenting at the DC .NET User Group , covering WebMatrix, Razor, and IIS Express. The meeting starts at 6:30pm. Since I’ll be in the area, I’m setting up Office Hours at Starbucks Coffee at 2400 M. Street NW , starting at 4pm, until approximately...

My thanks to all of the folks who came out to my talk on WebMatrix, IIS Express, and Razor last night at the DC .NET User Group . As promised, here are the links to information relating to the topic: ASP.NET WebMatrix Site: http://www.asp.net/webmatrix...

For those who don’t subscribe, here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg257998.aspx In this issue, I talk about lighting up your site on IE9 and Windows 7 using the new pinned sites feature...

For those who don’t subscribe, here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg265731.aspx In this issue, I talk about managing dependencies with NuPack , and the upcoming Web Platform Firestarter...

Sorry for the short notice, but if you’re in the Wheeling, WV area, you can catch up with me this afternoon at Tim Horton’s on National Road. I’ll have my laptop with the current Windows Phone 7 bits, along with my prototype device, so if you have an...