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November 2008 - Posts

Fat-free, Vegetarian Turkey Recipe

While the other folks are piling on the calories this weekend, here's a way to buck the trend! Happy Thanksgiving all! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:09 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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The Road to Oslo and Dublin

Nope, it's not a lost Crosby-Hope-Lamour movie, or my upcoming vacation plans... During some prep for an upcoming presentation on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), I ran across an excellent white paper by David Chappell that talks about the future of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:59 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Get Your Head in to the Cloud

The recent PDC was full of announcements around Windows Azure , the Azure Services Platform (or was it the Azure Platform Services!), Live Services , SQL Services , .... I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it all. If you're in the same boat, check Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:30 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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New Hampshire Stop Added to the Northeast Roadshow

Great news for those of you in the Granite State! We just added a seventh stop onto our winter Northeast Roadshow . Chris and I will be in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Dec. 18th with the same slate of content as on the other stops: Using jQuery and ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:38 PM by joneil | 1 Comments

So Much to Learn, So Little Time!

Overwhelmed by the amount of cool stuff to learn? Trying to balance understanding Cloud Computing when you're still working out the difference between ++i and i++? Check out the Ramp Up program, where you can set up a personalized plan to accommodate Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 10:25 AM by joneil | 0 Comments

Thank You, John and Ron!

I'm a little late to the blogs here, but wanted to add my voice to those of my colleagues, Dan Stolts and Chris Bowen , in congratulating John Ross and Ron Thibeau on their well-earned "Community Super Hero Award", presented to them at the TechNet / MSDN Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:21 PM by joneil | 1 Comments

Vista Technical Chat

Join Chris Jackson , technical lead for the Windows Application Experience SWAT team, for a one-hour LiveMeeting session on application compatibility, performance, and other Vista-related topics. He'll also be opening up the floor for questions. Great Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:40 PM by joneil | 1 Comments
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Northeast Roadshow - Winter Edition

Whoa! It seems like I've just finished my laundry from our last outing, and now Chris and I are heading back out for the Winter Roadshow. We're brewing up a new slate of content for you, including jQuery and ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, WPF, WF, Silverlight and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:47 PM by joneil | 7 Comments

D.C.: Got a (Silver)light?

Apologies to my friends in the Washington D.C. area for the delay. As promised I've recorded the Silverlight 2 session from this quarter's MSDN events . This is my inaugural effort at doing a screencast at Microsoft, and I just found out that I don't Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 9:34 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

Is it REST?

In the last Northeast Roadshow series, we spent a great deal of time discussing what makes a service RESTful. As I indicated, I'm planning to follow up next time with a more hands-on treatment of the topic applied in .NET - including the newly released Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 9:32 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Last Call! SQL Server, VSTO, Silverlight 2

This coming Thursday, November 13th, marks the last stop of this quarter's MSDN tour in the Northeast District. I'll be at the Sheraton Boston, 39 Dalton Street, from 1 to 5 presenting on three topics: SQL Server 2008 for Developers Building Applications Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:48 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

Time for Code Camp!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Buffalo Code Camp is being rescheduled. I'll post updated information as soon as it comes my way. The first Buffalo Code Camp is less than two weeks away. Have you registered yet ? The Buffalo Code Camp will be hosted Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:40 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Come to MDC and See Why Azure is Red-Hot

Admit it. You're just a wee bit envious of all those who went to PDC to hear first-hand about the next-generation of computing on the Microsoft platform, namely Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform , as well as updates to the .NET Framework, Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:56 PM by joneil | 1 Comments
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