Contagious Curiosity

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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...

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...

FREE - held at QuickStart in Irvine, CA from 6pm to 9pm on Jan 15.  Proctors are working Silverlight 2.0 Developers and/or technical trainers.  No lecture, no power point - just you and a machine that is set up so that you can get 'down-and...

There are two sections that get added to VS 2008 after you install the add-in from MSR to test Code Contracts .  The first one is simply called 'Contracts'. The second tab is named 'Code Contracts'.  The MSR team did a presentation at PDC08...

As I work to develop curriculum for next year's DigiGirlz camps, this talk seems particularly relevant. Ken Robinson questions educational priorities

As I continue my current language-exploring mode, I've noticed that Visual Studio 2008 is becoming a candy store for me.  Is it just me, or do we have an incredible amount of new stuff to play with?  I can't really remember the last time I watched...

So, have you got any email like the one I got from a close friend last week? "Due to the current economic state of our household, we are not able to send gifts.  I hope that you will not send anything as well.  I made deals with all friends...

Also this which explains more...   Chris Smith's completely unique view : Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Apparently there were some that came before me as well.  If you get to Balboa Park in San Diego, this portrait is worth seeing. Timken Museum: John Singleton Copley

Free is good, right?  We have two different events running in January.  I'll be at both of them and will be looking forward to seeing you there. Here's the first one (I'll update this post with the registration link as soon as I get it): MSDN...