Merry Bruns of Science Sites Communications , an online content strategist, editor, and Web writing trainer, will present to Capital PC User Group on Web Layout Techniques. “Placing user-friendly textual material on your Web site requires more...

Pittsburgh .NET has a meeting on May 11th where Patrick Santry will talk about DotNetNuke Module Creation. They are meeting in their usual spot at Pittsburgh Technology Council ( directions ), and the meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a topic for beginners...

Carl Franklin , who presents the .NET Rocks shows, will be at Microsoft's offices in Malvern, PA on May 18th for a Philly .NET meeting. May is an unusual month for Philly .NET , because there's another meeting the very next day when ASP.NET Exposed...

My day job is teaching MSDN seminars, and I'm currently learning the new material for our May and June seminars. We're experimenting with a new format that is much more demo oriented, with much less PowerPoint. Instead of our usual format with two 90...

This technical roadshow will teach you: How to design and build commercial-grade web services Who is building and selling commercial-grade web services today What web services architecture looks like Why the business world is embracing...

We have a series of security briefings coming up in May/June. This will all be taught by noted local author Andrew Duthie . The venues are: May 11 - Cumberland, MD May 12 - Martinsburg, WV May 13 - Bethesda, MD May 18 - Richmond, VA ...

I'll be doing my ASP.NET 2.0 presentation at Richmond .NET on Thursday, May 20th. (That day is also my mother's birthday.) There's more information on ASP.NET 2.0 here . As always, this meeting will be at Fahrenheit Technology in Innsbrook at 6...

I just posted two new articles: So You Want to Start a User Group and Content Level Definitions used at Microsoft .

I wrote this article in response to an e-mail asking how to start a user group! I believe that you need four things to make a user group work: location, speakers, online presence, and audience. I would start by identifying the location for...

Level 100 (Introductory): Product/technology features, functions, benefits overview What are the new features, how will they benefit the customers and convince them that they need to buy this product What are the functions of the product and...

Roanoke Valley .NET User Group has a meeting next Thursday, May 6th. Tolga Balci will describe his evaluation of Graphics Server .NET, and Brian Lanham from Virtual IT will do the main presentation on “Relational Data Modeling and XML.“ ...

The always awesome Anil John will be presenting Defenses and Countermeasures - Secure Your ASP.NET Applications from Hackers at CMAP next Tuesday, May 4th. This session presents countermeasures to defend against threats. Topics include: input validation;...

I was lucky enough to spend yesterday at the first day of the Devscovery conference Wintellect is running in Ballston for the next couple of days. They have some awesome speakers. My favorite session was Jeffrey Richter explaining the internals of the...

Speaking of NE PA, Phil Weber will be speaking at Central Pennsylvania .NET on Tuesday, May 18th, and .NET Valley on Wednesday, May 19th. His title is “Create Great .NET User Interfaces.” Create Great .NET User Interfaces: Even the most...

Sorry about the short notice (I've been way behind), but the .NET Valley user group in North East Pennsylvania will be holding a meeting tonight. Both presentations are by Jason Gaylord , and the agenda is: 6:00 Welcome and Sign In 6:15 Regular...

Frank Grimberg of Prosoft-International will be at WeProgram.NET on Tuesday, May 4 th , doing a presentation that I saw a couple of months ago at CMAP . In this presentation he describes using JavaScript and a web service to create highly responsive user...

Speaking of Richmond, the last outing for our March/April security seminars is this coming Thursday in Richmond . These seminars cover two main topics: hacker threats to your systems, and how .NET defends against them. Details are here . My colleague...

Lately, I've been asked “Why don't you categorize your blog entries by state, so I can just pick up an RSS feed for events that are local to me?” I find that an interesting question, as I've had categories since day one of the blog. To...

So what's the other .NET user group in Richmond, I hear you ask? (I've got really good hearing. I can even hear my imaginary friends, and they mumble.) Steve Metsker and Darrell Norton , who run WeProgram.NET in the Peninsula region, are starting a...

The next meeting of the Richmond .NET User Group will take place this Thursday, April 29, at 6:30PM. (I've blogged this before , so no fair complaining about short notice!) Once again, the meeting will be held at Fahrenheit Technology in Innsbrook . ...

MAVBUG 's next meeting is on Design Patterns in Programming. Woody Butler of Impact Innovations will be the featured presenter, speaking on patterns in programming. Woody will start with a general definition of patterns, followed by specific examples...

I want to mention that the Channel Nine concept is pretty cool, taking the blog to the next level. There's much more to say about this. I would like to write an article about how people outside Microsoft see Microsoft, as compared with how people inside...

Thanks to Steve Rosenbach of MAVBUG who sent me this picture from the presentation I did last night at CMAP 's Advanced SIG on “UML Modeling with Visio for Enterprise Architects.“

Maryland and Pennsylvania Microsoft Developers User Group has a meeting next Thursday, April 29th on .NET and the CLR. The speaker is Sam Gentile , noted Wrox author. They meet in Shrewsbury , at Bowers Training (just off I-83), at 6:30 PM. Plus they...

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