Contagious Curiosity

I am super excited to be speaking at TechEd Developers in Barcelona next week. I am delivering a session on Monday, then leading a panel on Wednesday, and then delivering another session on Friday. In between I'll be hanging out at the Business Intelligence...

Just read it, you'll laugh, learn and understand. The only thing that would be better is if he recorded this so we all could hear that lovely Italian accent. Vibro.NET : The Tao of Claims

I've been working too hard this week. As I was reviewing the photos on my camera, I found the one below (that I had taken a couple of weeks ago). I thought you might enjoy it as much as I do.

Thanks to the group at my session this morning on the basics of SharePoint as a development platform. If you are a first-time visitor to my blog (based on this session) be sure to search on the 'SharePoint' tag to see all the links and resources that...

Join us Wed, Oct 31 at noon PST to talk with Bart about his implementation of LINQ to SharePoint (on CodePlex ). Here's his bio - A former Visual C# MVP, Bart De Smet now works at Microsoft Corporation on the WPF dev team in an SDE role. Prior to this...

How geeky are you? Here's a cool topic on the latest geekSpeak - check it out! geekSpeak Recording: Programming for High-Performance Computing Environments with Dariusz Parys and Christian Binder

Although I am quite busy this week, when I travel I always try to do at least one thing that has nothing to do with work. Even though I've lived in California for years, until yesterday I'd never walked across the Golden Gate Bridge . For me, it's quite...

What a fun day I've had - 200 women geeks at the Computer History Museum in San Jose, CA for the first-ever She's Geeky unConference. Today's highlight for me was the talk by futurist Melanie Swan - here's here mind-blowing deck . Another fun thing was...

I love this song. Ben Harper - Fight Outta You lyrics

Check these out - very cool! If you are just getting into Silverlight development and need some inspiration, these demos will get you motivated. GOA - System.Windows.Forms for Microsoft Silverlight

Monday / Tuesday, I am scheduled to do something really different for me - attend a technical conference where 'no boys are allowed' - it's called She's Geeky and will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. The attendee list is pretty...

As micro-attention and media bombardment grows, I find myself thinking more and more about not what catches my eye, rather what stays in my brain. I watched a film that I had seen 17 years ago last night and was a bit startled at the level of detail I...

Here's a link to the deck from my presentation today. Also, here's a link to the detailed SharePoint developer poster that I talked about in my presentation as well. Download details: 2007 Office System: Developer Posters

Blogger Robert Shelton does it again - get his tutorials on WF. Again, he's posted on Live SkyDrive, so if you live outside of the US, let him know, so that he can provide the files directly to you. Free Workflow: Part 1 - Introduction to building workflow...

SharePoint developers --you know who you are - particularly those of you that have been 'pounding' my inbox lately :) --read this reference article! Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model

Is it just me, or are you noticing more weird errors on Facebook lately? Oh well, I am spending too much time there anyway...

Here's a list of links related to Paul's geekSpeak show: -to 'What is a Feature? ' -to the FBA Authentication walkthrough that I normally use: -to the SharePoint Discussions list in Yahoo Groups . -to Paul's employer's Mindsharp website -...

This is wonderful achievment! As regular readers on my blog may know, I was recently privileged to visit the LITA school in Macha, Zambia and to meet the teachers Jon, Greg and the students there. So, that you don't even have to click a link, I am simply...

I have a cool job. When I am not presenting Microsoft content, I get to 'hang out' with local developer community. Geeking out with smart people just really doesn't feel like work to me. Check out more pictures of this fun event here . Thanks to Nicole...

This deck is an overview of 'what's new and cool' in Visual Studio 2008. WoodyP and I are presenting this content in SoCal this quarter. I do believe it's also being presented by other Microsoft developer evangelists nationally. Grab the deck if you are...

An attendee pointed out that the resources didn't actually make it onto the DVD - download source code from demos and power point slides from the link below. Note that you can also watch a recording of the session (recording made by someone from our team...

I put the recordings for these shows up on Ch9 geekSpeak today: 1) XNA game programming w/Nick Landry 2) Workflow policies w/Mark Dunn Also, join us live tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12 noon PST for this show: MSDN geekSpeak: Using SharePoint Server as a Development...

Big Thanks to Robert Shelton for this. Ok, SharePoint workflow developers (and I know you are out there) get this series for yourself. Robert has done a GREAT job documenting. Now, the one caveat, is that Robert has posted his files to our LIVE SkyDrive...

I love this place . Every time I go, I discover something new. Today's find was the Mingei International Museum , delightful, unexpected and unusual. The curators have a sly sense of humor. 85 degrees, sunshine and endless discoveries, I feel quite lucky...

This site is not only elegant, but, of course, the running theme is personally appealing to me. If you are an ASP.NET web developer and are just getting started with Silverlight - here's a good first stop . Commerce Site - Home Page