January, 2010

In this episode, guest Stephen Bohlen joins Peter to discuss the Agile software development methodology. Stephen talks about what it means to be agile, how agile can improve the software development process, and what boiling molasses may portend for the...

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’, on Saturday, January 30th, 2010.  SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively...

The news has trickled out over the past week on Twitter… (can’t stop the spread of AWESOME news in the digital world we live in J)…  but I’m excited to publicly introduce two new additions to the NY/NJ/CT area Microsoft evangelism team:  Rachel...

Thanks to all of the people who attended the NJ Agile Firestarter in December at the Microsoft offices in Iselin, NJ! The Firestarter was a successful event, and feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive! I’ve never seen as many...

The NYC developer community is proud to announce the 4 th (sort of annual) Code Camp to be held on Saturday, March 6, 2010 , from 8:00 AM until 6:30 PM. It will take place at the Manhattan Microsoft office on 6th Avenue across the street from Radio City...

Via Sanjay Jain …   With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks ( Azure Atlanta , Win7 Boston , Win7 Reston , CRM Reston , CRM Boston , Win 7 Irvine , Mobility Mountain View , ), we are pleased to announce Microsoft BizSpark Camp...

No matter what type of web developer you are (ASP.NET, PHP, etc), there’s one task most have in common: Making your site discoverable!  I’m talking about making easy for folks to find your web site via the major Internet search engines like Bing...

Okay… it’s Friday.  While I’m selling out for contests, I thought I might as well share another cool one. The thought of a new 52” HDTV makes me want to try this one out.  (I’m still on a 27” tube!) This one comes via Joe Stagner … Try your...

I’m not normally one to enter sweepstakes and stuff like that.  But I’m guessing this is one where with a little bit of decent documentation for work you may already be doing, you have a shot at winning a free laptop! The folks over at Codeproject...

In this episode, guest Maarten Balliauw joins Peter to discuss his implementation of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for PHP and linking (non-pun intended) PHP to Microsoft Office Excel via the PHPExcel project . Maarten is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET...