It'll be my first time to BarCamp in San Diego (have been at one in LA before). These are fun, very relaxed and you can learn a thing or two as well. This one is being held at the Microsoft office in San Diego. Microsoft office San Diego So if you are...

I am spending quite a bit time using good old Word these days (writing the book). So, what's new there? Well, it turns out that Office Labs launched last week. Being the curious gal that I am, I played around with Search Commands. I like the partial word...

Geoff blogged about it. Also c10 video - interesting stuff. Are you on the beta yet? Hands on with Live Mesh Live Mesh Launched

A good read. Eloquent writing and interesting history. I've just started this one, but am quite gripped by it so far. Here's a sample of the writing (from page 6): "There (in London) he gained the attention of the prestigious African Society and of its...

As I am 'writing along' I am becoming reacquainted with an old friend - MDX (Multi-dimensional expression query language for SSAS OLAP cubes). It does take a particular mindset to wrap one's head around querying an n-dimensional structure. Days past,...

Although Second Life is one place that I haven't spent any time (yet!), my buddy and fellow evangelist from Texas, Zain Naboulsi is doing quite a bit of evangelism there. He's now leading a 'Heroes Happen Here' VS/Windows/SQL 2008 LIVE virtual launch...

Here's the deck from the talk I gave to the user group tonight. It includes information about Data Mining enhancements in the recently released SQL Server 2008 CTP 6. Download the deck to view as intended (some slides don't display properly in some browsers...

As my regular blog readers may know, I am writing again. I am working on a big project - "Building Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008" (for MSPress to be published later this year). When I am writing, I need a few things: 1) Quiet time...

Interesting article about using Silverlight 2.0 over Sockets. If you don't read a Scandinavian language, use SysTran to translate it. Robert Folkesson : Nätverkskommunikation och Sockets i Silverlight

Many of you have been pinging me - 'where are you?', 'we missed you at this event, that event? ' etc...Yeah, I've been hermit-like, writing and researching my new book. I will be out-and-about in SoCal in April and here's where I'll be. As I said at last...

I get this question so often when I present information about Silverlight, that I thought I'd just link to a great blog entry from Matt Manela that describes the process in detail. This Blog Can Also Be A Hat : Combining Silverlight and JavaScript

I'll bet you didn't have an job interview like this one . Happy to hear that Nathan aced it, and got the job. CodeWtrN8

We are hosting a FREE day-long event at the Microsoft Irvine,CA office all around SQL Server 2008. We are trying something a bit new in that we'll be providing content for both Developers and for ITPros. If you are interested in attending, please register...

Oh no, I thought I was going to learn F# next, but then I saw this! Oh there simply aren't enough hours in the day! I am thinking about adding VPL to the Microsoft DigiGirlz summer camp curriculum. What the heck is VPL? From MSDN: "Microsoft Visual Programming...

This is such a perfectly written, concise, intelligently-linked list, I just had to pass it along to all of you - thanks to Daniel Moth! The Moth: Top 10 things to know about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

**UPDATE** Download recordings of my .NET 3.5 demos and sample source files here . Daniel Egan's blog here . Tim Heuer's blog here . 1. Intro deck - this deck is displaying strangely in the browser, download the deck so that you can see it as it was...

Are you using the ASP.NET AJAX controller extenders yet? If not, go here , to grab them. They provide useful functionality like animating Update Panels, adding Callouts to Validators, adding Resizing to Controls and much more. Here's something even beyond...

I worked in the HOLs for Launch, I thought that the labs were pretty good. Particularly these for VS2008: WCF & REST; WCF & WF; C# 3.0 Language Enhancements. I also liked these SQL Server 2008 labs: Change Data Capture; Policy-Based Management;...

Wanting to get going with Silverlight? Here's some great FREE training from Mike Harsh, who is a PM on MS's Silverlight team. Learn how to make this custom video player and more - recommended. Silverlight Essential Training

We hosted the first (annual) SoCal DigiGirlz Day on March 24, at the Microsoft Irvine, CA MTC. 105 high-school-aged girls experienced technologies around making/editing/hosting/sharing movies. We'll host a summer camp (already registered full!), and offer...

Leave it to my West Region colleagues - LOL :) Rejected Launch Marketing - The Code Trip