The PhillyDotNet meeting last night was much better attended than we anticipated, as only around 50 people signed up but over 60 showed up. A -20 drop off rate is pretty rare! I kicked off the meeting and presented about Avalon for the early 20-minute...

It was a cold and blustery night... :) I drove to Pittsburgh (and back) on Tuesday night to meet Craig Oaks and the PGH.NET folks for the first time, and gave a presentation about Avalon to kick off the meeting. It looked like around 30 people attended...

January 17-February 11 Webcasts Whether you’re architecting composite applications in a multi-platform datacenter, extending the life of your legacy applications, or integrating J2EE applications with .NET, interoperability is top of mind. Join us this...

On Tuesday we had a hands-on lab around SQL Server 2005, sponsored by Microsoft, the PhillyDotNet User Group, and the Philadelphia SQL Server user group. 63 developers and about 6-8 volunteers came for 2.5 hours in this first intro level lab. Next month...

From our SQL Server Product Group: This is an invitation given by Microsoft to leading edge application developers to participate in a research survey that seeks feedback on improving the application development experience working with data platforms...

Thankfully, my UltimateTV's tuner started to die, and my wife got annoyed enough to let me replace it with an Windows XP Media Center 2005 box. I had certain operational parameters, however. First, since it was going in the family room, it could not look...