Contagious Curiosity

I am planning to record a many-part screencast (demo-filled) series for you, my .NET developer friends.  As I work on the outline and abstracts, it occurs to me that I might simply ask you, 'what topics would you like to see me cover?'  The...

The headline: "PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do...

Has a whole lot of useful information about working with Windows Azure.  Bruno (Terkaly) is my counter-part from NorCal.  RSS his blog. Bruno's Blog

Hey - we've got a great line-up for Feb 2009.  Join us LIVE and get your questions answered by our developer experts.  Shows are recorded each Wednesday from Noon to 1pm PST.  If you can make it to the live show, you can always catch the...

Bi2008 Plus Cloud Preview View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: bi cloud ) Check out the main SQL Server 2008 Data Mining site

A busy event week in Socal.  SoCalCodeCamp runs this Sat/Sun - have you picked your sessions to attend yet?  Here's where I'll be in case you want to say 'hi' or you can just reach me via Twitter, Facebook, email or text.  I like to say...

Is growing fast!  Join the national group and then join the Local Group(s) that you are interested in.  You'll get general info, links, videos, discussions and notification of events.   Groups - Azure User Group

As regular blog readers know, we are hosting a series of Silverlight 2.0 proctored hands-on-labs in SoCal in January 2009.  Here is some information about these labs and this event. There are 3 labs in a folder named Silverlight 2.0 HOLs on the desktop...

...was actually published in 2008, but it's really long and I've finally finished it!  It's called 'Information Modeling and Relational Databases' (Second Edition) by Terry Halpin and Tony Morgan.  Picture below, linked to Amazon for easy purchase...

You asked and we are delivering.  The first, FREE event (this week Thursday, Jan 15, from 6pm to 9pm at QuickStart in Irvine, CA) registered full in two days!  Due to overwhelming demand, we are offering this same  event again – same time...

As I journey into Windows cloud-land (otherwise known as Azure and Azure Services), I am finding the path to getting starting to be a bit tricky.  I have run into several gotchas as I worked through the process of requesting and using the various...

It's Katrien De Graeve's fault: 1. I started going to university when I was 13. I wanted to learn more German language than was offered in my high school.  2. My hair has been every color except gray. 3. My dad actually advised me to study computers...

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Andrew hosted another great event today.  Gotta' love tech events in the OC - thanks to Mixergy and EMG for hosting.   Pictures From Mixergy’s Lunch In Orange County @ EMG’s Office : Mixergy.com

Geoff did a great job linking and summarizing the announcements at CES Windows 7 Beta gets launched this Friday Windows live suite gets 2.0 edition released My favorite this is Kodu - here's the video.  It completely cracks me up that the caption...

Is a hit! Yes, we know the registration is completely full for the first instance on Jan 15. The good news is that due to your DEMAND we will definitely be repeating this event several times across SoCal (and maybe to other parts of the West Region as...

We've got it all -- live webcasts, live presentations, proctored hand on labs, architecture councils, and more...However you'd like to learn, we've got it.  Here's a list for January 2009. Live, interactive Webcasts MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: REST...

I like this talk from Ryan Barrett (who actually works for Google).  It is interesting to see how he compares Microsoft's cloud offering to that of the competition.  He also describes the Azure Fabric in detail.  What do you think? ...

Federated Identity is here - are you following information about 'Geneva'?  What is it?  From a well-written blog post from Bruce Kyle , here's a definition: "A project Microsoft Code Name "Geneva" is an claims-based access model...