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On the Startup theme, Startup Weekend Dallas will be in 2.5 weeks.  Again, information at http://dallas.startupweekend.org/ – there will be a LOT of people around that you recognize from the BizSpark crowd!

For all those that were asking, just a reminder that the first Startup weekend Tulsa is happening next weekend.  More info at http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/ Also, come out to Tulsa TechFest this Saturday, StartupWeekend will be involved there as...

We’ve got the Headspring Event tomorrow here in Austin – 1-5pm at the Austin Microsoft office.  You can find the details tonight at ADNUG or at the event link: http://www.headspringsystems.com/services/agile-training/continuous-integration/

In the spirit of completeness, I wanted to make a few comments about my other session I submitted for SxSWi- “ Smart for Who? ”  This session really came out of looking around my office and working spaces and really noting not only how connected...

I’ve had a couple of people ask me (and a couple of people not ask, but given their own spin on the title) and so I thought I’d do a bit more commentary on my “Brain” session submission. From the site (“ Your Brain in the Cloud ”), you’ll see the description...

I can’t let St Louis get too far ahead of us!  Looks like I need to get more involved in the Austin Hacker Space movement! http://archreactor.org/ Looks like their first meeting is next week.

I had to link blog this – it’s promising to be a GREAT series.  I couldn’t have done so well myself. http://www.sharepointhillbilly.com/archive/2009/08/07/getting-your-feet-wet-writing-code-for-sharepoint-ndash-part.aspx

SharePoint Joel ( http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=243 ) has a very nice summary of the current state of Office 2010 and SharePoint discussion points that are covered by and released...

So if you’re tired of shooting Zombies in Left4Dead on your XBox, or have beaten the “I, Zombie” level on Plants vs Zombies one too many times, and you’re in the Seattle area – try the live action event! http://blog.seattlepi.com/digitaljoystick/archives...

I want!  http://nevver.tumblr.com/post/128929601/realtime-3d-airtraffic-fubiz   Of course I mean the display hardware mostly.  The controls seem like they could be refined a bit more.

You may remember the high priority post back in May ( Important information on SharePoint Server 2007 based products and SP2 ) about an issue with the state of activation after SP2 is installed on SharePoint Server and associated servers.  There...

It’s been up a couple of days, but I just saw a tweet fly past about it.  If you check out session CI011 on the session track ( https://www.mspartnerconference.com/public/sessionlist.aspx?keyword=CI011 ) you’ll see that there’s some great information...

While I’m looking at my Micro Framework notes, I wanted to push this one out as well.  over at CodePlex ( http://mftoolkit.codeplex.com ) you can find Michael’s toolkit for networking Micro Framework boards.  To get your interest, let me just...

Pavel sent this to me a while ago, but I haven’t been keeping up.  You know those super expensive universal all in one programmable remotes?   Well he put together one all on his own, the great part is that he can can keep adding to it...

Some of you may have already seen the Hohm site – but if you haven’t you can take a look over at www.microsoft-hohm.com (and sign up while you’re there.)  I’d also recommend taking a look and possibly subscribing to the team blog – http://blog.microsoft...

Just in time for BrickWorld this weekend, Release 2 of Robotics Developer Studio has just come out.  You can watch the release video here , pick up the express edition at the download center , and visit the updated robotics site off the main Microsoft...

Just uploaded the deck I used today at the Green IT sessions here in Austin – it’s a slightly modified version of my Nerd Night presentation that I had neglected to push up.  I’ll use this post as a placeholder for any comments or discussions as...

This has been a long post in arriving.  Why?  I keep finding new stuff to throw into the project.  I’ll do some of the major items right now, but there will be more as we go along – there’s a LOT going on in the embedded and low power processor...

The Windows Mobile 6.5 dev kit is now out, if you’re interested in seeing what’s new and trying it out, you can scoot over to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e and pull it...

I had a number of people ask me about PHP and Windows Azure at this past weekend’s Startup Weekend.  To spread out the info a bit more, I wanted to point out that the PHP SDK is now up on CodePlex - http://phpazure.codeplex.com/ .  There’s a...

I just got reminded that I promised to get the ArcReady deck up after Dallas, but got distracted by some internal planning meetings.  So here it is - http://www.slideshare.net/PhilWh/architecting-for-the-client   I’ve left the speaker notes...

If you have installed (or are in the planning stages of installing) SP2 on any of the SharePoint Server 2007 based products (this includes Form Server, Search Server, Project Server, etc) then you NEED to head over to the SharePoint Team Blog and take...

Michelle connected me with the Austin Nerd Night series, and things worked out (not going to be able to make it to Maker Faire Bay Area this year :-(  ) so I’m going to be presenting on the 28th on Smart Environments.  If you’re in town, come...

This is the part most people that read blogs see.  Why?  Well, it’s “The air that we breathe” – if you didn’t already have an interest in this space then you probably wouldn’t be reading this.  (Isn’t circular justification fun?) ...