March, 2007

When I started this job about a year and a half ago, I didn't know much about user groups and community. I was aware of the NJ MS Developer Group that met in the local Microsoft office only because it was run by some of my fellow MCS consultants. I figured...

So how's everyone doing post-DST2K7? Did everyone survive? All my appliances seem to function just fine. Computers too. Only glitch seems to be my Windows Mobile Smart Phone which did not pick up the update for the earlier daylight savings time in the...

I want to thank everyone who came out to attend the second NYC Code Camp last week. Code Camp NYC II took place in the New York City offices of Microsoft on Saturday March 3rd. Over 150 of you showed up to attend 29 sessions delivered by 25 speakers ...

After taking the month of February off, devCouncil is back! This Thursday, March 15th, is the March devCouncil in NYC from 1-5pm. Immediately following the devCouncil is the monthly meeting of the NYC .NET Developers Group from 6-8pm. This month's devCouncil...

There's a whole slew of new user experience technologies out there these days. WPF, Vista, CAB, AJAX, etc, etc, etc. A while back, I posted how Chip Lemmon has been looking to form a new user group to focus on these UI design and development. Now the...

The first week and a half of March have already passed, but there are still some great user group meetings scheduled for the remainder of March. Check out the line-up: New Jersey Central NJ .NET User Group – Security with AJAX – Anthony Lombardo, Infragistics...

Spring is in the air. Can you believe it was up to 80 degrees again this week in Jersey?! It's time for what's going on at the user groups in NY, NJ, and PA again. Here's the line up for April: New Jersey NJ MS Developers Group - Thursday, April 5th ...

Pittsburgh Code Camp is coming up in just about two weeks! For more information, visit the Pittsburgh Code Camp site to register and get more info. Code Camp is a free, 1-day event put on by the local Pittsburgh community to help promote software development...

This week in Redmond, my team hosted a summit of approximately 50 tech buffs who don't normally use Microsoft technologies. It was an attempt to brainwa-- to give them a chance to learn more about what Microsoft is up to these days. The hope was that...

Last week, I attended the AJAX World East conference in NYC. The show was hosted by Sys-Con publishing at the Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Station. Most of the usual AJAX suspects were there showing off their AJAX tools and frameworks. The biggest...

Last Thursday, a bunch of folks in the NJ community got together to have a planning meeting for the New Jersey User eXperience user group. The Gaslight Brewery was fun place to hang out and have a few brews. But it's not a great place to host a user group...

No posts for almost a month... what gives?! Well, I'm not the type who normally fusses over his blog or tells you about every breath I take or every move I make. However, given that is is a forum folks are coming to to learn about developer events in...

By the time I made it down to Cherry Hill after getting a flat tire repaired on my car, it was 6:30 and an hour into the first .NET UG meeting in south Jersey. I was surprised to find standing room only. There were about 5-6 folks crowded in the hallway...

I wanted to extend a warm welcome to a couple of folks from the Philadelphia area .NET community have recently started blogging. Check out the following: Andy Schwam - http://blog.ingenuitynow.net Andy has been one of the leaders of the Philly.NET user...

Philly.NET continues to spread its wings. Last month, a new group was born in Center City. This month, the Philly.NET community is starting a new user group in south Jersey . It seems the .NET user group phenomenon keeps spreading further south down the...

While we're on the topic of user eXperience... At the Vista & Office launch events in January & February, you may have caught some of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) demos. During those demos, we showed off some of the new WPF controls...