Contagious Curiosity

We taught the first of our new, weekly events at the Microsoft office in Irvine, CA today.  The high school group coded up two SmallBasic recipes.  Here’s a video of how the day went.

Here’s my deck for SharePoint Saturday San Diego.  I’ll be speaking on SPS BCS there this Saturday – enjoy! If you can’t make it to San Diego this Saturday, then join me for this same talk as part of the MSDN SharePoint Developer event at the Microsoft...

Presentation scheduled for March 16 at 11pm PST.  The complete virtual conference session list is here .  Here’s the deck – enjoy Twitter Data on SQL Azure for 24 Hours of SQL Pass 2011 View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

We are frequently asked, ‘Just what are you guys doing now?’ about our work Teaching Kids Programming.  Enjoy this short video update! Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted...

Llewellyn and Bart got together to write the first pass at koans for Rx last night. We published the result on CodePlex today - here . What's a koan? It's an interactive excercise, using the lanaguage (features) and done in the editor to learn without...

  Finally, a neat way to use Twitter Lists!  I created a ‘newspaper’ from my @llangit\WomenWhoTech list on a new site called ‘ Paper.li’ .  I am really liking the format.  You can also create your own free, customized ‘newspapers’...

I participated in my first CodeRetreat in PHX recently. I had way more fun than I expected to and it was a safe environment for me to learn new languages. I really liked getting to pair with skilled developers who travelled from as far away as Mexico...

Here’s my deck from today’s presentation at the Cloud Intelligence Conference in Anaheim, CA – enjoy! Windows Azure Tools for Developers View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

Here’s the deck from my presentation at ‘24 Hours of SQL Pass’. 24 Hours of SQL Pass - SQL Azure View more presentations from Lynn Langit . To try out SQL Azure with no credit card, no hassle, 30 days – use this code DPWE02 The Twitter parser source code...

We’ve been making short videos on how to teach the parts of each recipe.  Not all recipes are complete, but we are working on it… Each recipe consists of the following parts and key components (for teachers): *) Setup – teachers should pair students...

Enjoy this short video of Orange County, CA teacher Lisa Martin talking about her class of high school students at a recent TKP event.

I recently talked with Dave Nielson from CloudCamp on the topic of ‘Big Data’ on the Windows Azure platform – enjoy!

If you live in the west coast in April you must note these cities MSDN Presents… Rob Bagby and Bruno Terkaly in a city near you Cloud Development is one of the fastest growing trends in our industry. Don’t get left behind. In this event, Rob Bagby and...

For my talks this month and next on SQL Azure – be sure to read the included slide notes as well if you download this deck.  I added all of the updates and announcements from TechEd US last week as well. Sql azure june_2010 View more presentations...

This post is a departure from my usual developer-focused content.  A fun part of my job is variety.  I was asked to speak on my favorite new consumer features of Office 2010 for the ‘ Jeff Levy on Computers Show’ .  (I will record this...

Recently I attended the annual Most-Valuable-Member celebration at the Inland Empire .NET Developer User Group in San Bernardino.  It is such a pleasure to participate in this UG, most especially at this event, so I’ll describe it in more detail...

Llewellyn Falco and I have been writing FREE courseware to introduce kids to programming with SmallBasic for awhile now.  Last night we recorded screencasts (for teachers) for one of our more advanced recipes – Simple Bubble.  More information...

Last night I was one of the speakers at IGNITE-LA .  The lightning talk format is interesting – 5 minutes, 20 slides, automatically advancing every 15 seconds.  This is called ‘Pecha Kucha’ and means ‘chit-chat’ in English. I will update this...

Here’s the deck I’ll be presenting this Saturday in Huntington Beach at SQL Saturday – c’mon over! SQL Azure April 2010 View more presentations from lynnlangit .

I’ve recently started a 14-week volunteering commitment at a local school and wanted to share lessons learned here.  I am working with a couple of developers to create and to teach ‘Introduction to Computer Programming (using SmallBasic )’ as an...

Thanks to Sara Ford and Zain Naboulsi for the source for my talk at the MSDN launch events this month – first one is next Monday in San Diego.  If you grab my deck, be sure to read the notes, I put all of the keyboard shortcuts from the demos in...

See the blog post before this one for details.  Kids 10-17 welcome.  Please email me via this blog with child’s name and age to confirm enrollment. Here’s a short video we made about what it is we are doing in these sessions – enjoy!

  Tonight I visited the San Diego Java User Group and took part in a coding dojo (more about that later).  While there, I mentioned to the attendees that we do have some resources for Java developers to use if they want to try out using Windows...

Here’s the deck from Burbank – enjoy! Intro to Windows Azure View more presentations from lynnlangit .

Here’s the deck from my presentation at ‘Day of Azure’ in San Diego on Saturday, March 6, 2010 for the San Diego .NET User Group – enjoy! SQL Azure March 2010 View more presentations from lynnlangit .