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I’m off to TechEd North America in LA next week where I’ll be presenting a 400-level session titled “Applied Entity Framework”. The session will mostly be focused on helping folks be more successful using EF3.5sp1 but also with some info about features
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We had some family come in from out of state for a visit this week, so we decided to see how much of the sights in and around the Seattle area we could cram into a few days. My wife, her mom and her cousin together took over 1100 pictures in 3 days as
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Julie Lerman called me out to participate in this set of questions about how folks got started programming, and it is fun to hear about those kinds of things. So here are my answers and at the bottom a few more people I’ll add to the process. How old
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I had so much fun talking with folks at DevConnections in Las Vegas last fall that I really wanted to attend a conference again this spring so I could share more about what we're doing with the Entity Framework and meet more great people who are interested
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So here’s another random little piece of information that might help someone else out (or me 6 months from now)… As I’ve been rumbling about, lately I’ve been playing quite a bit with webservices and serialization—especially DataContract serialization—and
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While there are places nearby that do get a lot of snow, normally weather is pretty mild around here. This year, though, December brought with it snow for real (not to mention power outages and other adventures)... Of course now that the power outages
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In case any of you are attending Dev Connections in Las Vegas this week, I'm planning on being there and would love to meet with you. Since I signed up too late to do an actual session, the powers that be have been kind enough to give me lots of time
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I just got through signing up to attend DevConnections in Las Vegas in early November. Because of some things going on in my family situation, I normally do almost everything I can to avoid travel, but I've really been wanting the opportunity to get to
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Today marks my 10 th anniversary at Microsoft, and it has been a crazy but exciting time that I wouldn’t trade for any job in the world. I’ll not bore you with a retrospective of all the projects I’ve worked on (how did I end up working on so many different
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In spite of my enthusiastic passion for the Internet and my history (before coming to Microsoft I worked on “Campus Wide Information Systems” at Idaho State University during the birth of the web, then I ran the second ISP ever in Idaho, etc.), I’ve always
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