February, 2007

The moment has arrived! Registration for Code Camp NYC II on March 3rd is now open. Register Here There's a great line up of sessions and speakers , so be sure to sign up soon before the event fills up! Remember, code camps are always free, so there...

Well, the cat is out of the bag. Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research is joining the evangelism team at Microsoft . Michael will be joining our team as an enthusiast evangelist. From Michael's announcement post yesterday: What is an enthusiast evangelist...

Looking for work in the Philly area? Mark Magliocco , a member of the Philly.NET community, has started a free local job board. You can find it here . http://www.localjobguide.com

The preliminary schedule of sessions & speakers for Code Camp NYC II has been posted. You can view it at http://nyc.codecamp.us Registration is not open yet... but will be opening very very soon! Stay tuned here and to the Code Camp NYC web site for...

The Central Jersey .NET User Group which meets at the Infragistics office in East Windsor is in the process of being "re-booted". Tony Lombardo and Ed Blankenship have stepped up take the lead of the NJDOTNET. Ed recently sent out the first edition of...

This may be my first "Andy Rooney moment" on this blog, but I feel like a crusty old man today. Growing up in the 80s, I was a huge fan of the cartoon show The Transformers, as well as the complete line of toys that the show hawked. Yes, "hawked". I never...

The Philly.NET community has been very strong, thanks in part to the dedication of Bill Wolff and others who have led that group for the past five years. While always popular, sometimes it can be hard for folks from center city or south Jersey to make...

This Friday is our monthly arcDevBrainPick at 10:00am EST. This is your opportunity to pick the brain of your local developer and architect evangelists. Bill Zentmayer and I are out in Seattle this week at an internal Microsoft conference. We'll be up...

Many of you who have attended the various community events I have participated in recently have heard me talk about code camps. Code Camps are "grass roots" mini application platform developer conferences, free of charge to attendees and open to presenters...

The patterns & practices team has been really busy lately delivering quality software. Check out the new Web Service Software Factory . What is it? The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of...

Yesterday was Jim Alchin's last day at Microsoft. Jim has been one of the executives who has led the Windows team for quite some time now. Now that Vista is out the door, he's looking forward to spending some time off. In a "good-bye" post on the Windows...

I just posted the list of area user group meetings for February. Quick reminder to stand out here... both the NJ MS Developers group and the new Long Island .NET user group are meeting tonight! In New Jersey, Jeff Lyttle from Microsoft Consulting Services...

Another month, another great line up of topics at the NJ/PA/NY area user groups... New Jersey NJ MS Developers Group – Tuesday, February 1st - Windows Presentation Foundation - Jeff Lyttle, Microsoft Consulting Services NJ Enterprise VB User Group – This...