October, 2008

Today is day 3 of the PDC in Los Angeles, but I thought I'd give you some highlights from yesterday for those of you that may be following along from home. The big news on Day 2 was all about Windows 7. Steven Sinofsky debuted Windows 7 on stage during...

Hello everyone from sunny southern California! I'm out here with a bunch of my Microsoft peers and others from the local developer community from back east attending the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. As I wake up to sunny...

October is in full swing right now.  The leaves are changing colors, and I’m even starting to hear the first of the annoying leaf blowers blow.  There’s so much going on, I thought I’d provide a little mid-month update to my regular monthly...

Is that a rocket in your pocket?  Or just a powerful new mobile computing device?  I can’t believe all of the new mobile devices coming out.  Competition surely is fierce. It’s hard to believe these pocket rockets have more computing power...

To our south, October 11 th was the Philly.NET Code Camp down in Fort Washington, Pa.  Over 400 people turned out for what was a great learning event with over 50 different technology sessions on various topics!  Never heard of a code camp before...

Next month, Bill Zack and I are going to be kicking off a new series of live events throughout the tri-state area! Many of the great developer events you read about here take place in NYC. Does that leave you with the Lincoln Tunnel blues?  Worry...

Back when Silverlight 1.1 (the predecessor to today’s Silverlight 2 release ) was first announced at the Mix ‘07 keynote , I remember being fascinated by the cross-platform .NET Framework aspect of it. As a cross-platform browser plug-in, Silverlight...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 in Los Angeles, CA is just 2 weeks away now.  If you haven’t registered yet, it’s not too late. You can do that at the PDC website: http://www.microsoftpdc.com The conference kicks off officially...

Thanks to everyone who attended the NJ SQL Business Intelligence event on October 4th!  Over 65 folks came out to Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ and were treated to a great learning experience courtesy of speakers Mark Kromer and Kevin Goff. ...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Silverlight 2 Fire Starter event in New York City on September 13th . I had a great time helping organize the event and speaking with many of the attendees about Silverlight. There were over 150 folks who made it out...

It’s tough to keep up with all the event announcements this week!  Fall is certainly the busy season for techies everywhere. In case you missed any of my most recent posts this week, there’s a bunch of upcoming events you might want to be aware of...

It’s just about that time again! Code Camp is returning to the Philadelphia area again on October 11th!  The Philly.NET folks usually host one of the biggest code camps in the northeast.  This one promises to be no different in that aspect. ...

Back in June, we hosted the first ASP.NET MVC Fire Starter event in New York City . I’m happy to announce that the MVC Fire Starter is coming very soon to the Philadelphia area. If you weren’t able to make it out to NYC, October 18th is your opportunity...

Via the Fairfield/Westchester .NET code camp organizers … On Saturday November 8th, 2008, the Fairfield / Westchester developer community will be holding our second Fairfield / Westchester Code Camp! The event will be hosted by The University of Connecticut...

Via Scott Watermasysk … Don and I (Scott) have been having “Dev Dinners” every couple of months over the last couple of years. We usually draw small crowd of bright .NET people and talk shop. However, this time we want to shake things up a bit and get...

The next series of MSDN Events are about to kick off!  This quarter there will be local stops in Stamford (tomorrow afternoon!!!) , Waterbury, Long Island, and Philadelphia. On the agenda this go round:  SQL Server 2008, VSTO, and Silverlight...