Looking to get a jump-start on some building some great Windows Phone 7 applications? And even better - without leaving your desk? Windows Phone 7 promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the recent Visual Studio 2010 Launch event in Tampa and caught my presentation on Visual Studio 2010 for Web and Cloud development.   There are a ton of new features and capabilities in .NET 4.0 and the tooling...

     The Home Shopping Network ( HSN ) has recently expanded to a brand new channel – the Nokia S60 generation mobile phones – powered by Silverlight . HSN, Inc.is an interactive multi-channel retailer that offers innovative, differentiated...

      Curse.com is largest MMO (Massive Multi-player Online) gaming web portal in the United States and serves-up millions of games add-on’s for popular games like World of Warcraft, WarHammer, and Runes of Magic. Their users represent...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the South Florida Architecture Group meeting on May 18,2010 to see my presentation on Parallel Processing with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.    With the constant hardware advances happening today, you...

Thanks to all the students, teachers, and faculty that turned out for my break-out session at the 4th Annual Academy of Information Technology (AOIT), Student Industry Conference.  The annual event draws more than 500 high school students from Miami...

Then check-out this recent ARCast.TV episode for a potential solution: ARCast.TV - Tool Assisted VB6 to .NET Migration There are millions (if not billions) of lines of VB6 code out there. For many businesses, they need this code moved to .NET but they...

Why is Azure important? Have you wondered how cloud computing can bring your ideas to the web faster? Reduce your IT costs? Or be able to respond quickly to changes in your business and customer’s needs? If so, then you need to find out what Azure is...

Thanks to everyone who came out to see my session at the Cloud Computing Expo event last week in New York! There are a few really great scenarios for cloud computing and I believe that viral social networking campaigns are one of those great use cases...

    What is the Azure™ Services Platform? It is an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. It reduces...

March 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Extending Your Sites Reach with IE8 Add On Features Abstract Today's users are getting more sophisticated and they expect more features from the sites and services they use. In this session learn about how...

Thanks! to everyone who came out recently to my session on Internet Explorer 8 for Developers.  In this session we explored some of the new features in Internet Explorer 8 and how you can take advantage of them from a developer’s perspective.  ...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the local Architect’s meeting in South Florida and Tampa!  Silverlight 4 certainly contains a veritable laundry list of exciting new features and capabilities that will enable some some truly next generation, cutting...

One of the coolest Windows Azure stories that was told at the recent PDC09 conference was the story of how Jim Zimmerman , CTO of Thuzi built their viral Facebook application for Outback Steakhouse and how it was hosted in Windows Azure.  Outback...

February 26, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: How to Architect a Killer App for Windows 7 Abstract: Ever since its recent launch, Windows 7 has been enjoying rapid consumer adoption and glowing press reviews. This makes it a great platform to launch...

Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 60-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. February 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Visual Studio Tools...

Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight: In this session, we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at...

Project Natal is a revolutionary new way to play the XBOX: no controller required.  See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it.  If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -...

Ever wanted to see how truly simple it is to configure an accelerator for Internet Explorer 8?  Ever wonder how much more traffic you could drive to your web site with something as easy as an IE8  search accelerator (since almost every web site...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Partner Azure briefing in Tampa!  We had an awesome line-up of speakers with real-world Azure experience - and it was great hearing about their perspectives with regard to leveraging the Windows Azure offerings...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the MSDN TIKI Hut Road show event in Ft. Lauderdale on 12/02/2009 where the topic was Silverlight, Silverlight, and more Silverlight.  Joe Healy did a great job with the Silverlight 3 content and I was fortunate...

‘Twas the week before the holiday season…last week, I caught-up with Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, to discuss the launch of MyChristmasCatalog.com and their innovative use of Silverlight3 and...

NBC and Microsoft are getting the band back together for a full Silverlight experience around the 2010 Winter Olympics. You'll have DVR control of the video, including rewind, sharing, and saving clips. There will be a Facebook Connect feature to allow...

Title:  An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Presenter: Tim Heuer Abstract:   Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and...

A huge Thanks! to everybody who attended the Innovation Showcase event for Windows 7…   There’s certainly a ton of exciting new features and capabilities in Windows 7 and it seemed like we hardly scratched the surface by covering this laundry...