Just a heads up because many of you attend user group meetings at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta . When you are coming off of 400, you won’t be able to go west on Mansell to get there, because Old Roswell Road is closing beginning October 22. You...

If you missed the MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow as it came through Alabama and Mississippi last month, don’t fret. You can now catch encore presentations as webcasts in a few weeks. The schedule is below, click to register. MSDN Webcast: Southern Fried...

Great pointer from my coworker Brian Johnson on how to test your sites on IE8 without actually installing IE 8 – VPC images. Check ‘em out! BufferOverrun: Brian Johnson: Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images

During the Atlanta TechDays events a few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to get local developer community member Doug Ware on camera to talk about user groups, community, his business, SharePoint and a lot of other things. One of my old pals from MSAM...

To our MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow fans: We are planning for our next week of roadshows through NC and SC, and we need your help! We are looking for college auditoriums, businesses with big conference rooms, and the like, for the December 2, 3, 4 or...

Today, several folks in the Southeast received notification that they have been renewed as Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). I just wanted to take a moment to recognize many of them that I know personally, and thank them for all their help...

Don’t miss tonight’s meeting of the Atlanta .NET User Group (ADNUG) where my co-worker Karl Rissland will be bringing us up to date on the world of BizTalk Server. See you then!

The venues and dates are locked, the invitations have been sent, the van is loaded up with goodies, and we're on the road. Keep up with our roadshow adventures on Flickr

We've had great news on the MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow front. Brian , whom we thought couldn't join us, will now be tagging along. So we'll have someone to drive the van while Chad and I play Xbox games in the back. By the way, does anyone know how...

Join Peter Laudati and me tomorrow for a great exploration of dynamic languages on geekSpeak. geekSpeak : Next geekSpeak - Dynamic Languages and the DLR with Mike Vincent - Wednesday, September 10

Registration is finally open for the big three-day TechDays event in Atlanta! Check out all the cool sessions, each offered from 1-5 PM on each day. Click the day name to register. Tuesday - The Southeast developer community presents "WebDev Fundamentals...

Get ready for a developer roadshow full of greasy goodness. It's the MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow! Chad Brooks , Brian Hitney and I are hitting the road to bring you some great talks on Microsoft developer and architecture topics, and we're going to have...

Don't forget tomorrow's geekSpeak with David Mann on SharePoint workflow! I'm looking forward to hosting with Dani , it's his first one! geekSpeak : Next geekSpeak - SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow with David Mann

I couldn't attend last night's Atlanta .NET User Group meeting, but my colleague Murray Gordon hosted in my stead. I don't think I'll let him do that anymore, because he put together this awesome write-up of the event (including pictures) and showed me...

Following her appearance at devLINK , don't forget that Sara Ford , the Program Manager for Codeplex, is coming through the Southeast to hit a few user groups next week. Apparently, she'll be talking about Visual Studio tips and tricks. You don't want...

Been on the fence about registering for PDC? Well, here are some quick updates that might help change your mind. First, due to popular demand, the PDC2008 Early Bird Discount has been extended three weeks.  Register by 11:59 PM Pacific Time, Monday...

Great geekSpeak coming up this week, I love talking about all that fancy "designer" stuff, and Frank is a real expert in the space, so this should be fun! geekSpeak : Next geekSpeak - Going from Developer to Dev-igner with Frank La Vigne - Wednesday...

Seems like this quarter's MSDN events have snuck up on everyone! In case you haven't seen them, here are some upcoming MSDN Events with great topics like What's New in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework SP1, Demystifying WPF, and a security session...

Join us for our next geekSpeak on Wednesday. Should be some lively conversation, it's a great topic! I will be hosting, along with Lynn Langit . geekSpeak : Next geekSpeak: August 13 - Juval Lowy on how WCF is the "new .NET"

Local MVP, past geekSpeak guest , and friend Jim Wooley got cornered at Tech-Ed by another of my friends Chris Williams . Chris asked Jim nine questions, and the answers give us all some insight on Jim as a person. NINE Questions with Jim Wooley

Don't forget that the nascent Hub City .NET User Group in Hattiesburg, MS is coming up in August. It's a lot of work to get a user group launched, so please come out to the first meeting to show your support and, if you are so inclined, look for ways...

Here's a screen shot of my vanity search (Glen Gordon) on the new Cuil search engine. ??? Judging by the fact that both my regular photo and my Simpsonized photo showed up inline with two excerpts from some other site, apparently I've played Dr. Fu Manchu...

The Atlanta .NET Users Group meets next Monday at the Microsoft office, and it seems to be that the theme for the meeting is "the future of data". First up will be Shawn Wildermuth delivering what promises to be an enlightening Q&A session...

If you haven't been entering your developer events like user group meetings and code camps into the extremely useful site called Community Megaphone (put together by my coworker Andrew ), you really should start. Not only can people find your upcoming...

I bet you've never seen a "how to" video like this - with people as the objects (including the cursor) Videos - Microsoft Popfly (thanks to Lynn for the link)