September, 2006

There are just three days left until BarCampNYC2 !!! Tell your friends! Tell your co-workers! Come on out this weekend and participate at BarCamp! BarCamp is set to be a great event this weekend at the Microsoft office in New York City . Sign up now as...

Back in June, the Microsoft patterns & practices team began soliciting feedback for what features should be in the next version of the Enterprise Library. The results are in , and now the team has just posted their initial plans for v3 of the Enterprise...

From Alex Barnett via Scott Guthrie ... Dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python have had a lot of buzz around them lately. Now, fans of dynamic languages should be pleased to learn that v1.0 of IronPython for .NET has been released. Read Alex &...

Jason Beres sent me an update for the Central Jersey .NET user group (NJ.NET). After being off for most of the summer, they're having their monthly meeting Thursday September 21st at Infragistics. I didn't have the meeting info when I did my monthly user...

I read this one last night. It's all over Techmeme . Way too funny to pass up.

A couple of weeks ago when I posted the listing of area user groups, I listed the NYC .NET Developers group joint meeting with the NYC Connected Systems & NJ Enterprise VB user groups at VS Live in Brooklyn on September 12th. That meeting was a lot...

I've never been a big video game player. Well, 'never' is probably not the right word. You see, Doom & X-Wing caused an addiction that briefly "interrupted" my college education at one point, forcing me to quit cold turkey. I've never looked back...

Well, I got the news the same way everyone else did yesterday... via the press release . Microsoft released some details about the new Zune player it is planning to produce. Read Cesar Menendez's Zune Insider for the scoop. They confirmed a bunch of things...

Three weeks ago, I posted about how the game was on to figure out what the "real" name of the Atlas framework would be. Yesterday, Scott Guthrie ended the suspense with his post revealing the formal name(s) for what has been known as "Atlas" , Microsoft...

Three of the new Windows Live services officially shed their "beta" tag today. Live.com is a personalized portal/RSS aggregator that allows you to customize your feeds and news as you like. Plus, you can add various Gadgets to the page, or build your...

Via Thom . Windows Vista RC1 arrived recently. This is a big milestone towards the final release of the next version of Windows. Now that RC1 of Vista is out, the corresponding release candidate for the .NET Framework 3.0 is here too for Windows XP and...

Wow! I can't believe it's been this long already. It still feels like just yesterday that I was there on the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ watching the tragedy unfold across the Hudson all day. While no one I know personally perished that day, almost everyone...

Thanks to all of those who attended my webcast today on the ABCs of Windows Communication Foundation! Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly code-named "Indigo," is about to radically change the face of distributed programming for developers...

Please, say it isn't so! It looks like this Friday yet another modern rock station bites the dust. FM 106.3 - GONE! Now corporatized as "G Rock Radio" 92.7 WLIR/WDRE - GONE! Now NY's La Calle! 99.1 HFS - GONE! Now DC's El Zol! Y-100 - GONE...

BarCamp is coming back to New York City for a second round! I'm happy to announce that BarCamp NYC will be hosted at the Microsoft office in midtown Manhattan . (The first round of BarCamp in NYC took place last January.) What is BarCamp? BarCamp is an...

The Central Penn .NET user group has scheduled a Code Camp for December 3rd, 2006. The Code Camp will be at the Harrisburg Area Community College. See the Central Penn .NET website for more information here .

Ahhhh, September... one of my favorite months of the year. The humidity heads south for the winter, and here in the northeast, we get two months of what is usually the best outdoors weather of the year! (Allergy free for spring-time pollen sufferers like...