Thanks to the diligence of the new president of the Birmingham Software Developers Association   Robert Cain , there's now a blog http://altechevents.com that is intended to be a central location for the IT community in Alabama to post and find technology...

Brian Hitney and I are bringing a Mobility Developer Roadshow to Atlanta and Charlotte. We'll be teaching about the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and using VS2008 to develop Windows Mobile SmartClient Applications. So join us for a full day of programming...

Last week was the inaugural meeting of GGMUG , the Gwinnett, Georgia Microsoft User Group, and Doug and I stopped by to get things rolling. This group is geared towards folks that live on the northeast side of Atlanta, but certainly anyone who can make...

In the Heroes Happen {Here} launch events I've been doing I've been mentioning there is a new Visual C++ feature pack that will let you easily incorporate new UI elements into your MFC apps. The feature pack makes it easy to add Ribbons, docking toolbars...

If you want to get a nice comprehensive overview of Silverlight 2.0 Architecture Development and Deployment then check out this 4 part series from my colleague Bob Familiar. There's some great information here that covers a broad spectrum of integration...

The next meeting of the Augusta Developers Guild will be on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 6PM at Augusta State University. Karl Shifflett will be presenting Mole Visualizer For Visual Studio. It's a pretty exciting developer tool, and I guarantee you have...

My coworker Brian has written a really slick app called WorldMaps that that plots where visitors to a website hail from. After much procrastination, I'm proud to say I've implemented it on not only my site but also our geekSpeak blog as well. If you visit...

Join us every Wednesday at 3 PM Eastern (Noon Pacific) in May for some great developer conversation with industry experts. Get your questions on these technologies answered live. Here are the links to register: May 7 - WCF Strategies for Windows Mobile...

During the past few weeks I've been delivering the Smart Client session at the Heroes Happen Here launch events around the southeast. Here are several good articles and videos related to that session. Also if you find any that I missed, please feel free...