The best free developer event in town is the Atlanta Code Camp. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s educational, and it’s this weekend (May 19). Join 300 of your fellow geeks learning about the latest developer technologies, techniques...

What's a Windows Phone Garage? A free, full day event being designed to help developers/designers build Windows Phone applications. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. Not sure...

A Web Afternoon is a mini event intended to inspire and educate people who love the web. It’s being put on by the leaders of the Atlanta Web Design Group. Think TED, but for the web. Both speakers and attendees will be people from a variety of disciplines...

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell are hitting the road in the USA with the traveling edition of their DotNetRocks show . These guys are always a blast to hear live, you never know what’s going to happen. Their DotNetRocks Visual Studio 2012 Road Trip...

PowerShell Saturday #003 will bring together developers, IT professionals, DBAs, and developers from Atlanta and the surrounding areas for a full day of intense learning and fun on October 27, 2012. With fifteen sessions covering a milieu of topics like...

The industrious developer community over in Alabama has just announced their 9th code camp, taking place this coming March 10th in Troy. If you want a fantastic day of free training, networking with some great folks, and a lot of geek fun, make plans...

There’s still time to sign up for THE designer and developer conference in the Southeast – ReMIX ! Lots of fantastic sessions, great tutorials, opportunities to network and meet experts in various areas. I’ll be at the conference on Saturday giving one...

The release of Windows 8 is on the horizon, and soon millions of people will be looking for Windows 8 apps . Now’s the time to make sure your app is ready for them. Begin your 30-day journey to create a great Windows 8 Metro style app. Get started at...

Thanks to all who came out to last week’s Atlanta .NET user group meeting. Although we were moved a week back due to Halloween, I'll pretend it was some kind of super Daylight Saving time adjustment instead. (grin>. In any case, here are resources...

If you have been wanting to learn how to write and publish Windows Phone apps, here’s a great opportunity to get started in the Atlanta area. The Windows Phone meetup here is kicking off off a 7 part series of events that will teach you how to do it....

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow - September 2009 Edition The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is a free developer event with a southern flair, where you will learn about some of the latest developments in Microsoft technologies. For September, 2009, join...

Today, the Windows family at Microsoft took a huge leap forward (pun intended). The consumer preview for Windows 8 is now available, and it’s one of the easiest installs of an update I’ve ever encountered. In fact, I was surprised to find...

Once again it’s about to be Wednesday, so that means it’s about to be Windows 8 Wednesday, another opportunity to come discuss app and game ideas, get help with your app in development, talk about monetization strategies, and more. Join me in the Alpharetta...

Hey Alabama developers! Are you itching to get started building Windows 8 apps? Now that the OS has been released along with some amazing new devices, end users are going to be hungry for apps and games. Why not get in on the action? Here’s an amazing...

This week as you try to deal with the absence of political tweets and Facebook posts, why not swing by the Microsoft Alpharetta office and chat about or test out your Windows 8 apps? The Windows 8 “Wednesday” will be Thursday this week, I’ll be there...

How does learning about cloud computing while contributing to scientific research sound to you? Join us for @home with Windows Azure to get a solid understanding of the Windows Azure platform while giving back to a very deserving cause. What is @home...

On Wednesday of next week, I’ll be giving a talk on what’s coming in Windows 8 for app developers and startups. I’ll be presenting this as a benefit to members (current and prospective) of a local coworking facility The Work Spot . So grab yourself some...

This class handles opening a file and returning the contents. using System; using System.Security.Permissions; using System.Security; using System.IO; [assembly: FileIOPermission(SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, Read = @"c:\temp.txt")] namespace FileIOClass...

Good news, everyone! My colleague Ed Donahue and I have launched a new podcast series called The Campus Coder. The weekly half-hour podcast series features interviews with student developers who have made the leap into professional development with Microsoft...