22 July 2008
Essential WCF Featured on ARCast.TV
Thanks to some great work by my colleague Bob Familiar , there's a new ARCast.TV episode featuring interviews with Steve Resnick , Rich Crane , and me.  In this episode, Bob interviews us about WCF and our new book " Essential Windows Communication Read More...
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22 July 2008
Boston XNA July 23rd Meeting on 2D Role Playing Game Development
  The Boston XNA Developers Group is an open user group for anyone interested in learning about game development with the .NET-based XNA framework.  Attendance is open and everyone is welcome, including students and parents with their programming-interested Read More...
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21 July 2008
John Papa Speaking with Tech Valley and New Hampshire User Groups This Week
John Papa (MSDN columnist, MVP, and INETA speaker) will be visiting the Northeast area and speaking on Silverlight with the Tech Valley .NET and New Hampshire .NET user groups: Tech Valley NY .NET July 22nd, 6:30 - 9:00 PM Albany, NY New Hampshire .NET Read More...
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14 July 2008
Announcing New England Code Camp 10!
It's amazing to say, but we're gearing up for our tenth Code Camp in the New England area!  And this one will be the biggest and best one yet! Save the Dates:  September 20th & 21st!   This will be a fantastic (and free, of course) Read More...
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06 July 2008
Giving Two User Group Talks on XNA This Week!
Some coincidental scheduling has given me a chance to speak with both the Boston .NET and Beantown .NET user groups this week, both on XNA ! You'll have two chances to get up to speed on how to create games easily for Windows, XBox 360, and the Zune using Read More...
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06 July 2008
Code Camp Hartford - Call for Speakers Open
As I mentioned earlier , Code Camp Hartford (the first for the area!) is coming on August 16th.  It will be held from 9 AM-5 PM at the New Horizons facility at 340 West Newberry Rd. in Bloomfield, CT. The Call for Speakers is now open!  As I Read More...
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30 June 2008
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - July
Summer at last!  Time for vacations and relaxation, but there's also plenty going on in the .NET developer community.    Know of any other events or user group meetings?  Please let me know ! Connecticut July 1 Agile Project Leader Read More...
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27 June 2008
Code Camp Hartford - Save the Date!
Fantastic news for northeast developers - a Code Camp is now coming to the Hartford, Connecticut area!  SB Chatterjeee (who runs the CT .NET User Group ), sends word that a venue has been secured and that Code Camp Hartford will be on Saturday, August Read More...
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27 June 2008
Office 2007 Search Commands Add-On
Prompted by recent feedback on a Roadshow visit, I set off to research a bit about the " Fluent " (ribbon-based) interface in Office 2007.  Though it surfaces more functionality to users, it can clearly take some time for those used to Read More...
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25 June 2008
June Boston XNA Meeting Canceled
Unfortunately, tonight's (6/23) meeting for the Boston XNA Developers Group will have to be canceled.  A last-minute scheduling problem has come up, so we're going to punt on this month's meeting. We'll continue as usual with the July meeting. If Read More...
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24 June 2008
Tech Telecommuters - What's Your "Third Place"?
Adventures in Telecommuting At Microsoft, I'm classified as a "mobile" employee.  That's code for "work where you can be productive".  Much of the time, that means home, and sometimes our Waltham, MA office where we have Read More...
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23 June 2008
Northeast XNA Game Developer Featured on CNN
[Thanks to Lindsay for the heads-up!] Currently featured as the lead Tech story is an article featuring the Northeast's own James Silva and the story of his creation of a game called "Dishwasher: Dead Samurai" using XNA (coming later this year Read More...
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19 June 2008
Northeast Roadshow - Summary and Resources
We've put the wraps on another great Northeast Roadshow, having visited with hundreds of developers and architects in five cities across the northeast. See the bottom of the post for the content and resources .  But first... The Play-By-Play of Our Read More...
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11 June 2008
Special "Meet the Authors" Event Next Week
A free event has been arranged for next week to celebrate the release of three books featuring work by local Microsoft staff (including yours truly). Microsoft’s own Scott Jamison, Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen, and Rob Walters, along Read More...
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09 June 2008
Northeast Roadshow Concludes This Week
This week we have the final two stops for our fifth Northeast Roadshow . June 10 - Rochester, NY Rochester Institute of Technology Building 70, Room 1400 1 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, NY Rochester is the essence of Roadshow - piling in the car and driving Read More...
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