A few weeks ago I offered to help by doing a presentation at Dev Days in DC, and I was told “No, Geoff, we want the good speakers for this one.“ I've been reading the speaker list that Justin came up with, and there are some absolutely...

Yukon is the next generation of SQL Server. We unveiled it at the PDC last year, and if you want to know more about it, all the PDC sessions are available online . Some of the coolest developer features include .NET integration , so you can write stored...

Thanks to Chris Williams for letting me know that Roanoke Valley .NET UG has a meeting on Object-Oriented Architecture and UML next week on Thursday, March 4th. Brian Lanham from Virtual IT is the presenter. They meet in the Advance Auto Parts training...

Frank Grimberg of Prosoft Systems International will be at CapArea.NET tonight doing a session on Forms Validation using a Web Service. This is the same session that he did at CMAP a couple of months ago. He'll cover how you can connect from the browser...

Special Offer of the Day: I am bringing a huge box of T shirts to Richmond .NET tonight , so see me there if you need free clothing! This meeting starts at 6:30 PM, and it's held at Fahrenheit Technologies .

I'm doing my ASP.NET seminar for the last time next week in Richmond and Pittsburgh . Bernard Wong , who is another developer community champion based in LA, just blogged about hashing algorithms , one of the the topics we cover in the security session...

Venturi Partners have partnered with Microsoft to provide a pair of free seminars in Southern Virginia on business intelligence and SQL Server Reporting Services. A lot of customers I work with have implemented business intelligence for a limited number...

Thanks to Dave Patrick for letting me know that Maryland and Pennsylvania Microsoft Developer's User Group has a meeting on web services scheduled for this coming Monday, February 23rd. Frank Grimes, who has presented at many local user groups, will be...

Speaking of SQL Server user groups, thanks to Chuck Boyce for telling me about the new SQL Server users group in Philadelphia . They meet at Learnquest in Center City (8 Penn Center Plaza), once every three months. Their next meeting is Thursday, March...

I want to congratulate Brian Moran on re-starting the Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group . The first meeting was originally scheduled for January, but was cancelled because of the snow . So the first meeting is this coming Monday at AT&T in...

For anyone in the Delaware Valley who hasn't seen it, may I recommend Philadelphia Developer Network . It's maintained by Brendan O'Hara and Steve Rittler , two local Cold Fusion gurus, and it has links to everything developer-related going on in the...

I've now heard about three local MCSD study groups: Columbia , Rockville , and DC . The Columbia group is part of the wonderful Central Maryland ASP Professionals . The Rockville group started a few weeks ago. They are studying Kalani's book for...

Hold the date! CapArea.NET has a special meeting coming up on Thursday, April 29th at the Microsoft Office in Reston . Some awesome, big name speakers from Wintellect will join us, including Jeff Prosise and John Robbins . This is in conjunction with...

InfoPath is a forms designer product that allows you to create user interfaces for manipulating XML and connecting to enterprise back end systems. The Developer Resource Kit is now available. It's free, and orderable here .

Richmond .NET has put together a great meeting on Thursday, Feb 19th at 6:30 PM at Fahrenheit Technologies . Brian Noyes is going to cover the User Interface Process Application Block . This is one of the application blocks from Microsoft's Patterns...

Central Pennsylvania .NET in Harrisburg has a meeting on Feb 17th at 5:30 PM. From 5:30 - 6:00 they have a beginner's session on the .NET IDE. After pizza, from 6:30 - 7:30 they have a drill down into ADO.NET by Hilary Cotter . Hilary is a SQL Server...

Next Thursday (Feb 12th) I'll be in Virginia's Tidewater for a couple of events. At 1:00, I'll be doing my ASP.NET Tips and Tricks seminar . This is the one where I drill into the Time Tracker sample application and then focus on ASP.NET security. I also...

Yukon is the next generation of our SQL Server database product. We expect it to ship sometime late in 2004. We first unveiled it at the PDC last October , and we're still keeping it more or less under wraps until beta one comes out. (For more information...

In addition to the big security summits , we also have some half day MSDN security briefings coming up. These aren't part of the standard MSDN seminars that I deliver, but are focused purely on security and are delivered by specialist presenters. In...

Hold the date! We have a series of 19 security summits coming up in April/May. These are big events - we're targeting audiences in the thousands at each event. Each event will be a full day of security information targeting developers, IT pros, and other...

Thanks to Ken Mills of Compuware for letting me know about a .NET debugging seminar in McLean, VA on Feb 19 th and 20 th . (The original date was the 19 th , but they added the 20 th when they ran out of space!) David Falkenstein from the NuMega Lab...

I'll be in Scranton, PA, next Tuesday (Feb 10th) doing my ASP.NET Tips and Tricks/Security seminar . This is the show where we dissect the Time Tracker starter kit application and then drill into the security internals of ASP.NET. We've been getting...

We have a local launch event for SQL Server Reporting Services on Wednesday, March 3rd, from 9:00 to Noon in the DC Office . It should be a good show. The legendary Cesar Larrea will present the keynote, Long and Foster will talk about their experiences...

I'm going to be in Roanoke on Thursday (Feb 5th) talking to the Roanoke Valley .NET Users Group about .NET 2.0 . It should be a great session. I'm going to talk about some of the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 , and also some of the language innovations...