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• Farewell to Microsoft

  During my three-year tenure at Microsoft, I have met many wonderful people. For those of you I have worked with along the way, I wanted to share my bittersweet news. After three amazing years at Microsoft, I will be leaving to start a new chapter in my Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:44 PM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events, User Group Events, Developer Knowledge, Personal Life, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• A couple of BIG upcoming user group events

  I'm taking a bit of a breather from all of my event travel of the last few weeks, but I wanted to make sure that you, my loyal blog readers, have advanced notice of a couple large developer conferences coming up in October. For those of you in the North Read More... Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:06 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• Coming soon to downtown Chicago: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

  The Chicago Access Users Group (CAUG) has cordially invited me to present in April at their monthly meeting! See below for the details. The meeting is open to everybody - hope to see you there :-) Microsoft Office is more than a killer productivity suite. Read More... Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:59 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• Heartland Developers Conference 2005 - October 12-14

  Some friends of mine are running a pretty serious developer conference for the North Central area of the Midwest: 2 Days ..2 Technology Keynotes ..16 90-Minute Breakout Sessions ..Top Conference Presenters ..500+ Regional Developers ..2 Networking Events Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:57 AM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• Homework from Rockford, IL

  2 things to share: 1) Two articles to explore in more detail what we discussed in today's event: Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 - this article includes a section entitled "TCP Messaging" which explains how to set up TCP-based web services. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:55 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• New developments at South Central Indiana .NET Users Group

  My friend Eric Hammersley, who is developing the South Central Indiana .NET Users Group (SCI-NUG) to serve Bloomington, IN and its environs, has planned some upcoming events and an Office Developer Pack Giveaway. In brief, following the May 24 MSDN Event Read More... Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 4:00 PM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• I will only be in Chicago for 10 full days of April...

  And it's all so that I can present to .NET developers (except for a little bit of personal travel, of course). Even though I can't make it to every city each month for MSDN Events, I like to make my rounds to the user groups to see friendly faces and Read More... Posted Friday, April 08, 2005 9:05 AM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• Calling all Northeast Wisconsin .NET developers!

  Those of you who attended the Appleton, WI MSDN Event this past Tuesday will recall the brief discussion at the end of the day about interest in a .NET user group in the area. Since there was a group in the past, and by the show of hands there was clearly Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:03 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• Brand-spankin' new user group in my district!

  I feel privileged to announce the newest .NET user group in the tri-state area of IL, IN, and WI: SCI-NUG aka South Central Indiana .NET Users Group Based in Bloomington, IN, SCI-NUG was formed by Eric Hammersley to be a forum for .NET experts and enthusiasts Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:21 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• Follow-up to 2/10 IndyNDA Presentation

  First, a blast from the past: remember those Rold Gold pretzels about which I waxed poetic when I discovered that they maintained their crunch 2 months later. Well, I had a 3 hour drive to Indianapolis this afternoon for the UG presentation and I saw Read More... Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:28 PM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Personal Life

• WI .NET UG Deeper in .NET Event Coming in March 2005

  The Wisconsin .NET Users Group is planning their third annual full-day .NET event, packed with some of the top speakers around, including Scott Guthrie, Rob Howard, Rocky Lhotka, Jason Beres, and Chris Mayo. Visit the WI .NET UG site to learn more and Read More... Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 4:13 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• CNUG Day of .NET and .NET Job Fair

  Chicago .NET Users Group is hosting a Day of .NET on October 30th in Palatine, IL. RSVP online by noon on October 27th. For more information and to RSVP, visit http://www.cnug.org/index.html . The Chicago . NET Users Group invites you to attend the 5th Read More... Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 8:58 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge