March, 2008

Social Networking: Everyone wants a piece of the action.  Users want to be where the cool people are and feel part of a community.  Businesses want to make money off of it.  The 44 billion dollar question is:  How? I don't know the...

Vegas had Mix.  Now the Microsoft Health & Life Services Developer Conference 2008 is coming to Atlantic City, NJ!  On April 22 - 24, take a trip down the shore to AC where Microsoft will be hosting its second annual H&LS event. The...

Some sad news to pass on from Bill Zack... I have some sad news to relate to with you today.  Stephen Goodwin passed away on the morning of March 7, 2008. I have known Stephen for over 12 years, from the time that he joined the New York Enterprise...

Thank you Live Search for Mobile! (<- yes, the name is a mouthful, but it gets the job done.) Yesterday was Easter Sunday here in the US. In the morning, my 2 year-old son had tough congestion and was wheezing, a sure sign of croup . He's had this...

Manuel Goyenecha has just let me know about the Amateur Computer Group of NJ (ACGNJ) .NET SIG that meets in Scotch Plains, NJ. The group meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Scotch Plains Rescue Squad building. You can learn more about the...

The Code Trip bus tour is underway.... http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/03/03/the-code-trip-launches-at-mix.aspx The West Region evangelism team is on tour.  Heading out on a 28-city tour across the region, the team of 10 has set out to spread...

Next week is Wintellect and Infragistic's Devscovery conference in NYC.  As part of that event, many of Wintellect's .NET luminaries will be in town.  The NYC .NET User group has managed to get some of the folks to stick around for a special...

Twitter is the popular online service that asks you to answer the simple question " What are you doing? " in 140 characters or less.  Your answers (as well as others) can be subscribed to via RSS on your computer or SMS text messages on...

Help Microsoft support the YWCA in honor of National Women’s History month in March by exchanging a donation for a limited edition iGive shirt.  The shirts will be distributed by members of Microsoft’s Developer Platform & Evangelism...

The NJ SQL Server user group will be sponsoring a free day of SQL Server 2008 training in Microsoft's Iselin, NJ office on Saturday, April 5th.  The event will start at 8:30AM and wrap up at 3:30PM. From the NJ SQL Site: SQL Server 2008 is an evolutionary...

Mix 08 was a blast.  So many things were announced, products released, and of course a great interview of Steve Ballmer by Guy Kawasaki!   I'm finally catching up now to provide a wrap up.  But, as I read my feed list, I see that others...

Less than 24 hours left until BarCampNYC3 at Brooklyn Polytech this weekend!  March is well underway.  It seems spring is always the time of conferences and events.  Mix, SxSW (which I'm now wishing I was able to go to... maybe next year...

Mix 08 is well underway right now.  If you haven't been following the news coming out of Mix, there sure has been a lot of it! IE8 Beta 1 now available Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 now available SQL Server Data Services announced Silverlight for Mobile...

If you are a Microsoft Partner with a competency in building custom development solutions on the Microsoft Platform, or you are interested in expanding your practice in this direction, then Microsoft's MSDN Field Evangelism Team invites you to attend...