Contagious Curiosity

As I study all things new in languages and modeling, I return to an improved old friend.  I bought myself Terry Halpin's second edition of 'Information Modeling and Relational Databases' and am happily re-invigorating my knowledge of ORM.  What...

I don't even care that the cover image is incorrect.  It just makes me so happy to see this. Wow, China!  Wow, my book "Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008" is finally publishing this week!   Microsoft...

  From the site…GOOD LUCK and happy coding! “new CloudApp() is a US-based developer challenge for .NET & PHP developers creating cloud applications or services (hereafter "application") on the Azure™ Services Platform. Have your application...

TechEd starts for me on Sunday, May 10. Here’s where to find me day-by-day – if you can’t find me send me mail via this blog with your number and I’ll text you back. Sunday day - MVP event at LACC -and- OSLO booth prep night – SharePoint by Night Party...

Sunday before TechEd I represented local evangelists at the TechEd MVP pre-summit.  In addition to meeting several MVPs for the first time, I got a chance to plan new events with key SoCal MVPs (most of whom also lead or actively participate in local...

My curiosity often takes me down new pathways.  Just like a typical dev, after stating the business case, writing out the problem, writing the key use cases and ‘hiring’ a designer, I am ready to open up Visual Studio and start coding my first multi...

We hosted our first-ever DigiGirlz hi-tech camp for high-school aged girls at New Horizons, Culver City , (LA) CA last week (We have hosted previous events in SoCal in Irvine, CA  and in San Diego, CA).  DigiGirlz is a global program of annual...

User Group Day of the Month 1 Inland Empire .Net User Group 2 nd Tuesday - Every Month 2 L.A. .Net Developers Group 1 st Monday - Every Month 3 L.A. .Net Geek Dinners 4 th Thursday – Every Month 4 L.A. C# Developers Group 1 st Tuesday - Every Month 5...

And one of the best is the Huntington Library (and Gardens) near Pasadena. The roses look and smell incredible.

This question was asked at my last event - IP stands for Identity provider and RP stands for Relying party. Do remember that we are talking only about managed (not personal) cards here. Nigel Watling of the CardSpace group was kind enough to provide me...

Does is really look like this? Although always interested in math, I've never had the opportunity to have a formal math education. I have been kicking around the idea of going back to school to pursue an advanced degree in math, because, well..math...

I've run the annual Saddleback Memorial day 5k many times now and always wondered - what would it be like to run their 1/2 marathon ? Today I did it (in just over 2 hours). If you are not a runner, that's probably all you need to know, however, if you...

As promised here are the post-webcast resources. Also, I'll be posting the date for the 'added' webcast - SharePoint workflows for developers shortly. Thanks to all of you that attended today's webcast. Be reminded that the geekSpeak webcasts start...

book editor . Really he is. My good friend and very talented architect - Matthew Roche won yesterday's Iron Architect competition at TechEd 2007 in Orlando. I think I am going to get a shirt that says, "I survived the Iron Architect", hm...maybe...

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...

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...

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...

Working with the beta? and Silverlight? You'll want this then! This video provides step-by-step instructions for adding Silverlight 1.0 JavaScript Intellisense to Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 with Microsoft Silverlight Tools Alpha . Presented by Justin-Josef...

I hope to see a bunch of my SoCal developer friends at CodeCamp this Saturday and Sunday (Jan 26/27) - www.SoCalCodeCamp.com There are a bunch of great technical presentations, great conversations with developers, swag...and, or course the whole this...

Our growing tech community is starting up geekDinners in the SoCal South Bay due to to demand. This first one is in El Segundo. I am looking forward to seeing you there. La/Southbay .Net Geek Dinner at The Tavern On Main (Tuesday, February 19, 2008) ...

Heroes Happen Here :: Events

Here is a company who is offering training in Irvine, CA this winter. on 3/11 in Irvine, CA Pluralsight - Premier Microsoft .NET Training: Applied Silverlight Questions this course will answer: How does Silverlight XAML differ from WPF XAML? What subset...

Congratulations to Jason Thomas (he's the one in the white shirt in the middle of the photo below) - he won the coveted TwiistUp3 ticket at today's MSDN developer event in Century City, by providing a very candid answer to my question, "What was the worst...

Life is a party, isn't it? Last week was the first-ever Drinks 2.0 at Barefoot in LA, next up is TwiistUp3 in Venice. It's sold out, so if you've bought your ticket, I'll see ya' there, if not, well...there's always TwiistUp4. Who's in?

How do I get it you may ask? Well, you have to come to my MSDN presentation in Century City on Jan 15th. Registration and agenda at www.msdnevents.com/lynn . One lucky winner will get 'the hot ticket' from me. What's the criteria? My usual favorite -...