Just a friendly reminder that next week I'll be in North Carolina with some awesome content for MSDN Events. We'll be covering Web Services from the basics of an ASMX page all the way up through WSE 2.0, as well as how to access SQL Server 2005 data with...

Today was a good day. Although I woke up early to catch a flight from Atlanta to Raleigh, NC, I took a new way to the airport that, although it’s a few miles longer, actually let me get to the airport traffic free. In Raleigh, I found my way easily...

I'm doing a cool intro webcast on mobile development today. Bill Steele will be my sidekick, answering questions and giving his opinions as well. In this webcast, you will learn how to develop Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC applications using Visual Studio...

I've just added the demo code from my webcast Object Oriented Fundamentals in VB.NET to my Presentations page, plus a link to watch the webcast if you missed it or need a refresher. Enjoy!

Hey out there. Just wanted to alert you to my 2 webcasts this week. They are reprises of topics we covered last quarter at our live MSDN Events . Just click below to register: Object Oriented Principles in VB.NET Optimizing ASP.NET Applications

One of the nice things about sharing the stage with local .NET personality Michael Earls during my last 2 MSDN Events is that if there’s any questions from the audience during his demos I can give him first shot at answering them. Michael presented...

*sigh* Why can’t web developers agree on a standard naming convention for accessing mobile-device friendly pages?!?! Tonight I was trying to search on Amazon for a book from my iPAQ h6315. The full interface was frustrating and slow, so I wanted...

In our current series of MSDN Events , we are spending a good bit of time on ASP.NET tracing and showing the usefulness of the trace.axd file. After doing some research around the web (using MSN Search of course!) I came across some information on how...

This Thursday, join me for an interesting webcast where I’ll be covering creating mobile applications using the upcoming SQL Mobile and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0. You can sign up for the webcast here .

Thanks to the great number of you that stuck around after the MSDN Event in Atlanta on 2/17. I hope you had fun. Brendon Schwartz (one of the Atlanta .NET Regular Guys ) shot and assembled this photostory of the event and pub club. Thanks, Brendon!

North Carolina TRINUG - Triangle .NET User Group (Raleigh) The Triangle .NET User Group in Raleigh-Durham, NC meets the second Wednesday of each month. Triad Developers Guild The Triad Developers Guild, serving Greensboro, High Point and Winston...

I had a strange experience the other night. My wife and I were at a theater getting ready to watch Sideways (a great little film, by the way). During the pre-movie slide show of ads, we kept hearing a voice behind us whispering the text on each slide...

For my upcoming MSDN Event in Greenville, SC I’m branching out a bit and having Michael Earls with Magenic join me on stage and present a bit of the event. We’ll cover some cool Winforms techniques, then Michael will show you all best practices...

First, come to the Atlanta MSDN Event at Phipps Plaza AMC theater. Local expert Michael Earls with Magenic will be helping me out by presenting for part of the event - don't miss it! Then, we’ll he holding another meeting of the .NET Pub Club so stick...

Sorry about the groaner of a title, but I just wanted to let folks in the Southeast know about these great Code Camps, put on by the developer community itself. You’ll see great local and industry speakers, as well as a few Microsoft folks. There will...

OK, I just got into a little debate with my cohort Bill Steele over a few lines of code. Why don't you, dear readers, take a look for yourselves: Private Function DoSomething() As Boolean Try Return True Catch ex As Exception Finally MessageBox.Show(...

If you were at my last MSDN Event in Columbia, SC, I distributed the URL for the Columbia DotNet User Group. Here it is again: http://groups.msn.com/DotNetColumbiaSC . The group's leaders are asking even current members to join the online group since...

OK, pack your bags for sunny LA! PDC 2005 will be held there in September 2005. (OK, maybe you don't have to pack your bags just yet...)

Well, if you get them from GIANTmicrobes they are! :-)

Hey out there. Tomorrow I'm doing a webcast introducing the Visual Basic Power Pack. This free control library gives you some really appealing user interface elements for your apps. Join me on this live webcast to see more (or, if it's over, click the...

Well we have just announced our new topics for MSDN Events for January through March 2005. Here the are (in no particular order) Windows Forms Bonanza (or, "How to WinForms and Influence Users") Troubleshooting ASP.NET Web Applications (or, "How to catch...

I just tried the new MSN Search beta , and it's definitely working because if you search for " Glen Gordon " my blog site is the first listing! Oh yeah, I'm the first entry under google as well.

I have added links to slides and demos (and to recordings of the webcasts) for 2 recent webcasts I did to my presentations page (see link on the right as well). Enjoy!

Here is a list of links for topics I've presented outside of MSDN Events . Fundamentals of ASP.NET Mobile Controls Webcast Recording Demo Code and Slides Writing Secure Code - Best Practices Part 2 Webcast Recording Demo Code and Slides Fundamentals of...

OK, here's the deal. We have a little competition going on to drive attendance to our ASP.NET Webcast Series over at Microsoft Webcasts. The presenters with the highest attendances win some gift cards to a very popular electronics chain. So, come on!...