Don't miss your chance to see Rocky Lhotka at tonight's meeting of the .NET user group. Rocky is a fantastic speaker, and he'll be giving an overview of his CSLA framework and how it's been updated to take advantage of key .NET 3.5 features. The meeting...

The next Charlotte Code Camp is coming up on Saturday, May 17, 2008. They are looking for local folks to come in and present interesting sessions on developer tools, technology, business, life, whatever! Also they need lots of volunteers to help in other...

As an alumni of the North Avenue Trade School myself, this video had me in stitches! (For those not in the know, the "M" train in Tech vernacular means getting a degree in Management.)

Sometimes the people on my team try to just sneak stuff by the rest of us. I was just forwarded a link that's a perfect example of that. It's a whitepaper written by my co-worker right her in Atlanta, fellow DE Doug Turnure . He wrote it in December 2006...

I just updated the user group page that I maintain on this blog for groups in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Please check it out to see what's in your area, and send me any corrections. Next step I want to take is to add Alabama and Mississippi...

If you live in Gwinnett county and have been seeking developer fellowship closer to that area, there is a new user group forming. Doug has some links on his blog about the group, but their first meeting is May 8th, so come out and support the new group...

This coming Thursday, AT&T will unveil Microsoft Surface devices in some of their major stores, including in Atlanta.  If you happen to be in the metro area, stop by the AT&T store at Lenox Square. I'm going to try to swing by there! Here...

My colleague Brian just posted about an error page he encountered on a public ecommerce site, and the clues it gave him about how the coding of that site was wrong in a lot of ways.  He gave some good tips on fighting SQL Injection attacks, but I...

Thanks to all those who turned out for the meeting, despite it being basically on the heels of the Atlanta Code Camp on the 29th. I hope you got a lot out of the talk. Here are some resources that will help out as you explore the topic: The demo...

The inaugural meeting of the Augusta Developers Guild 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). Come out and show some support for this new group forming in Georgia...

It must be something to do with the beginning of the quarter. Within just minutes after I read about Matt's MVP appointment, I got an email from Karl Shifflet (up in Charlotte). Karl's just been awarded with MVP status for Client Application Development...

No foolin' here, Matt is now a SharePoint MVP. Way to go, DevCowboy! I'm now a SharePoint MVP - Atlanta .NET Regular Guys Seriously though, there are too many SharePoint MVPs in Atlanta now. Last night after my talk at the Atlanta .NET User Group I stopped...