Have you been looking for the best place to learn all about how to develop for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 platform? Have you been champing at the bit to write an application yourself, get it into the Marketplace and start the money rolling...

Last Thursday night, I had a great time presenting to the Atlanta JavaScript meetup . We had to improvise a bit for group viewing, because no one knew where Ignition Alley’s projector was. I spotted their DLP TV and noticed that it had a VGA input, so...

I have just been given an allocation of Windows Phone 7 devices to share with the local developer community (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina). If you are in one of those states, and are building a Windows Phone 7 application...

Some of you may have already noticed, but this morning, many of the prominent tech media sites have published reviews of their experiences with the Windows Phone 7 developer preview build. Here’s the background story on those devices. As more and...

Many thanks to the folks who came out for my talk last week at Atlanta PHP on Windows Azure. I loved the questions and our dialog! Here are some useful resources to get you started. Slide deck - Scaling big while sleeping well Good articles by Josh Holmes...

If you’re in the Atlanta area and interested in meeting other folks who share a passion around Business Intelligence, there’s a new mini-group forming under the existing Atlanta MDF group. I invite you to join in the conversation currently happening to...

If you attended John’s half-day debugging seminar in Alpharetta a while back, check out his upcoming online 2 day course. John will dig in deeper and enlighten you with with useful tips and techniques for .NET Debugging. Mastering .NET Debugging...

Chris (Woody) Woodruff from Deep Fried Bytes will be bringing a free 1/2 day OData workshop through the Southeast the first week of June. Register now! Raleigh - June 2 Charlote - June 3 Atlanta - June 4 The Open Data Protocol (OData) http://www.odata...

This past weekend was the ReMIX Atlanta event. Lots of planning led up to this great event, and I want to congratulate the organizers on pulling it off! A fantastic .NET Rocks road trip show with Carl and Richard the night before added to the fun. The...

There’s finally a set of Windows Phone 7 developer tools that work with Visual Studio 2010 RTM. All the details are posted in my colleague Rob Cameron’s blog post . I know what I’m downloading tonight!

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer has been a fantastic way to get all the frameworks (like ASP.NET or PHP), libraries, IIS settings and developer tools installed on your machine in one step. Well. the web platform team has just released the latest...

Here’s a great opportunity to learn about Windows Azure. Not only do you get 2 hours of free training from my esteemed peers Brian , Jim and John , but you get to try what you learn with a free temporary Azure account. Read the complete details on Brian...

Here are the follow up resources from John Robbins's debugging talk from April 13 in Atlanta Watch or download a replay of the webcast . View the slides Get the sample code

Two fantastic back-to-back events are coming in May! Are you a fan of .NET Rocks ? Well, they’re setting out on a roadtrip to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2010 as well as tape one of their awesome shows in front of a live audience. Yes, we said...

Do you guys know what’s just around the corner? No, not Spring Break! It’s the launch events for Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010! Come out and see us at these 2 different flavors of events. Full Day Launches Atlanta – May 20 Find out...

John Robbins is a debugging legend, and his debugging class is equally as legendary. We scored and are getting John to come to Atlanta on April 13. If you’re a .NET developer and care anything about being more productive, you NEED to be at this class...

Are you in the Huntsville, AL area? Interested in learning about Silverlight? I’ll be there on March 9th with 2 talks for 2 different user groups. First, for lunch, I’ll be at the North Alabama Web Developers meetup. I’m doing an introductory talk on...

Don’t forget to reserve your space now in the next edition of the MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow! We’ll be giving you the whole picture of Microsoft’s cloud computing stack from “A” to “Zure”. The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is a free developer event with...

Cloud computing really solidifies (is that an oxymoron?) the idea that ISVs can offer software-as-a-service (SAAS) in a reliable and scalable way. If this is your company's offering, one of the things you must consider is how to handle multiple customers...

Check out this great landing page all about the SEO toolkit for IIS. http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo/?appid=10990002 This is an amazingly useful tool for analyzing your website and recommending changes. It was developed as a tool that integrates...

I have 4 passes to this weekend’s sold out Atlanta WordCamp. (Microsoft is a platinum sponsor and we get passes in return for sponsorship). Would you like one? I’ll tell you how to score one. Simply go check out Microsoft’s Web App Gallery and the Web...

Here’s a cool developer contest: Submit a great article explaining how you built an app for Windows 7 – complete with code - and if yours is selected as the best, you could win a fully loaded HP Touchsmart tx2z Notebook! For full rules and to enter, visit...

The next Alabama Code Camp is coming up soon, on January 23rd. This time around it will be held in the lovely city of Mobile! For those of you who don’t know, there’s a cool battleship to visit in Mobile! Register today at http://alabamacodecamp.com Code...

MSDN geekSpeaks return in January with two fantastic guests. Wednesday, January 6 – SQL Azure Under the Hood with Chris Rolon In this episode of geekSpeak, Chris Rolon gives us a look under the hood of Microsoft SQL Azure to see how was constructed. Chris...

In November and December 2009 I presented on Parallel Computing in the .NET Framework. Here are the resources for that event. Downloads Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework Beta 2 downloads - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx...