Russ Fustino's Tool Shed Tour Starts in South Florida! Looking for more cities - can you help?
I am really excited about this! My plan is to do 40 free Tool Sheds, in 2 months. These are all open to the public! Many of these will be community driven and community promoted like the 3 that I am starting with in South Florida next week (Thanks to community industry influential , Max Trinidad , for setting these up!).
I have listed a few geographies that I would like to book at certain times based on my schedule for the MSDN events in the blog entry below, and if you have a free venue open to the public and can get me at least 50 attendees then let's set it up! Day or Night or Weekend (except during football)! Contact me at rfustino@microsoft.com with Tool Shed Tour in the subject. I have several topics to choose from to build a custon session for you with the most popular being WCF, Silverlight, LINQ and my newest killer session and series... "It's All About The Tools" co-developed by MVP Stan Schultes. Many folks have said, "Why doesn't MSDN come to my town?"... this effort is in response to that very question... you spoke and I listened.
9/19/2007 - 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM - University of Miami - Silverlight and Expression Web
Register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=120637
9/20/2007 - 6:30 PM - 8:00PM - Miami User Group - It's All About The Tools
Register: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=284
9/21/2007 - 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Devry University, Miramar - VSTO and VSTS DB
Register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=120638
Contact me at rfustino@microsoft.com with Tool Shed Tour in the subject if you can help me out getting a free venue, open to the public, with 50 attendees minimum in these general locations and rough dates at this point (subject to change).
Jackson MS area - September 24 Evening
Huntsville/Birmingham AL area - September 26 Afternoon/early evening
Orlando/Melbourne/Jacksonville - Oct 3, afternoon, Oct 4 all day, Oct 5 morning
Florida Pan Handle - Tallahassee, Ft walton, Pensacola Oct 15-16
Raliegh NC area - Evening of Oct 17
Hartford CT area - Oct 22 evening
Waltham MA area - Oct 24 all day/evening
Easten Mass area - Oct 25 morning
Miami/ Ft Lauderdale - Nov 6 afternoon/evening
Burlington VT area - Nov 12 (my birthday!) Evening followed by party at Nectars?
Providence RI area - Nov 16
Sarasota/Naples/Ft myers - Nov 19-20
Russ wisely shelved dreams of rock and roll stardom in order to share his vast knowledge with developers nationwide. Given that he can’t sing or play an instrument, other than in Guitar Hero, we’re all very grateful. Russ has more than 25 years of software development. He’s the creator of the Russ' Tool Shed developer seminar series and has donned his trademark suspenders, hardhat and tool belt in presentations for over 75,000 developers at 1,700 events. Russ also has expertise in developing Visual Basic and Web-based solutions using Microsoft tools. Before joining Microsoft eleven years ago, Russ worked as a VB instructor, headed up a development department, and created several client/server applications and system software products. His specialties include development with VB.NET, XML Web services, ASP.NET, XNA, Silverlight, Development Tools and debugging. But make no mistake – Russ is not all brains. His big heart led him to establish Take a Swing at Cancer, Inc., a non-profit organization that holds softball and golf-based fundraisers to battle cancer. You have to know the code to get in the shed. KNOW THE CODE!
