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The bi-annual Microsoft Women’s Conference was held last week on the Microsoft Redmond Campus. I keep enjoying this conference more and more each year. In my humble opinion, the Executive Roundtable event was by leaps and bounds the most productive, most
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According to the incredibly awesome Catherine Eibner , I’m going to TechEd Australia!! And I found this out on the same day that I donated the last of my advance on my book royalties, bringing the Save Waveland Scholarship Fund to $29,008.34 cents. Thank
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Last week, I spoke at Microsoft DevDays 2009 in The Netherlands. After the conference, I was able to do a little sightseeing in Amsterdam on my own, which included buying a small souvenir from the Heineken Plant , a CodePlex labeled Heineken bottle.
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The day after Mardi Gras, I drove up to Hattiesburg, Mississippi for a Geek Dinner. We had a good turnout of 13 people, including several from out-of-state. 2 people drove several hours from Mobile, Alabama, and 1 guy even drove 6 hours from Tennessee!!
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Wow, two non-Tip of the Day posts from me on back-2-back days. Have I finally recovered from my ToD ordeal? Last week, I finally got to meet my book editors. As I stated in the acknowledgements of my book, I never understood why book authors always profusely
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I’m going to be in town after Mardi Gras, so I thought it would be fun to do geek dinner that Wednesday. Keith Elder, the Hub City .NET User Group leader, has the details : Who can attend : Anyone that wants to talk about open source software, codeplex,
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Last week, I spoke at the Engineering Excellence / Trustworthy Computing Forum to Microsoft employees at the Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen about CodePlex. I also attempted to do 101 Visual Studio Tips in 50 minutes, but only got through 85 tips.
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I told myself as soon as i finished uploading these pictures, i can grab breakfast. Hopefully i have just enough energy to make this understandable. =D I attended the WomenBuild event and sat next to Frank Arrigo . I had to take pictures of the
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I just got the first two copies hot of the press , a phrase I’ve never used in its original context before. Below is a picture of my editor Melissa von Tschudi-Sutton and me with the very first two copies in the last day of sunlight in Seattle. Yes, I
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My 2 talks, plus my 20 Visual Studio Tips in 7 minutes micro-talk, are available at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx I highly recommend checking out the 7 minute presentation, but don’t take my word for it. Thanks to Guy Smith-Ferrier for
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Finally, at long last, the Save Waveland Scholarship Fund was announced today at the local college. Here’s the official press release: http://www.mgccc.edu/news/book_raises_scholarship_money_for_MGCCC_students.php And some pictures:
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Sara Aside: Matt and I were IM’ing each other this morning, and he congratulated me for the book being sent to printing yesterday. He asked me if I planned to sleep with it like a stuff animal. I said of course I was going to. In fact, I would sleep with
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Last week, my career-long dream of becoming an international speaker came true. I had the opportunity to speak at ReMix08 UK in Brighton, England. Thanks to Dave Sussman and Phil Winstanley, who ran the Community Track session, for inviting me out to
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It’s times like these i wish i lived closer to home to help promote local events and activities. But for now, blogging will have to do, even if it is from a speaker room in England The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is coming to Hattiesburg, Mississippi,
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I’m speaking at ReMix on Thursday in England, where I will demo the new Subversion client support for CodePlex . I will also present the Visual Studio IDE Tips and Tricks. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/ Well, i’m off to catch my flight. i’ve
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