Believe it or not, you can actually attend a technical conference, never go to any of the scheduled sessions, and still get an incredible amount of information, resources and contacts. Now I'm not advocating that for the upcoming Tech-Ed you ditch all...

Congratulations to my coworker Chris for a feat that I can only dream about from a distance - getting a book published! Note that his WCF book actually covers up through .NET 3.5 so there's a chapter on "The Programmable Web" and probably information...

The next Atlanta Code Camp has just been announced, it will be Saturday, March 29. There are full details on the website: www.atlantacodecamp.com What they really need are speakers, speakers, speakers! No, not those cool, tiny, cube-like Bose speakers...

Join us on Wednesdays in March and geekSpeak on cool dev topics like Silverlight animations, advanced ASP.NET and an interesting testing concept called "software dependencies". Our guests will be James Kovacs , Cal Schrotenboer and Daniel Eagan...

OK, hopefully you're already a reader of Scott Guthrie's blog, but if not, he just released some great information on Silverlight 2. I can't wait to see this and more at MIX in a few weeks! First Look at Silverlight 2 - ScottGu's Blog

A few weeks from now I'll be flying west to participate in my first MIX conference (which I've just learned is sold out)! Are you going? Let me know and we can connect! I'll try to Twitter which sessions and events I'll be attending. Can't make MIX? No...

This is an interesting video about people who can't break themselves free of their online connections, be it email, blogs, surfing, twitter, what have you. I suppose it's a tough problem for one to recognize in oneself, but isn't that true of any addiction...

I just heard from my co-worker Brian that one of our local community members Jim Duffy has been awarded the position of Microsoft Regional Director . Brian put up a helpful post explaining the RD program , and I agree that Jim is a great choice. Jim's...

Hopefully many of you have enjoyed the recordings of the geekSpeak webcasts, either in place of the live version or as a way to catch that cool segment that you missed. Given that many geekSpeaks are mostly conversations and Q&A, many of the episodes...

Lynn Langit (my colleague on the geekSpeak webcast series) posted a great set of resources for this quarter's MSDN Events sessions. Contagious Curiosity : ASP.NET Developer Security MSDN events - slides & links Also I'll throw in a few of my own:...

Another session of Raleigh Code Camp is just around the corner. This free day of developer training put on by the community is always a blast, and chock full of good information. Better register soon to guarantee a slot. There are some great speakers...