September 2007 - Posts

INETA SoCal Community Leadership Summit
30 September 07 03:38 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

What a great day I had meeting with INETA - great people, good times! Thanks to all for building a community around .NET. If you haven't checked out www.ineta.org , I encourage you to do so. Link to INETA Community Leadership Summit Read More...

Filed under: Southern California

It's lonelygirl15's world, isn't it?
29 September 07 02:05 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

It's lonelygirl15's world, isn't it? Maybe not yet (at least for me) After spending a day at the New Media and Podcast Expo , I am thinking that the 'next Web' is all about micro-content. Well, that and oddly-colored hair if the attendees are actually Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Technical Conference, Annoyances, Art, Webcasts

Lynn speaking on BI and Data Mining in LA on Nov 15th
28 September 07 03:39 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

I'll be speaking on SQL Server BI and Data Mining at the User Group in LA on Nov 15th - Many of you have asked where/when I'll speak on this topic, so, if you are interested, I hope to see you there! Los Angeles SQL Server Professionals Group User Group Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, BI

Writing Secure Code, Second Edition for my Irvine Developers
28 September 07 03:11 AM | llangit | 4 Comments   

You just never know what you'll get when you show up for one of my MSDN events. Today, I was happy to give the majority of the 400 developers who attended a free copy of an important resource book - Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard Read More...

Filed under: MSDN events, Southern California

Grab my 'general info for developers' deck - MSDN SoCal
26 September 07 04:21 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

As I prepare for an upcoming MSDN event this week in Irvine,CA , it occurred to me that I've got quite a bit of useful information in the introductory deck. So, I've put it here for you to download. One of the things that I try to do in my live presentations Read More...

Filed under: MSDN events, Southern California

.NET 3.0 StockTrader Sample Application
25 September 07 12:36 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

Doing/Learning Enterprise development? -- GRAB THIS ONE! An End-to-End Sample Application Illustrating Windows Communication Foundation and .NET Enterprise Technologies This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Read More...

Filed under: Vista development, MSDN events, ASP.NET development

Busy week - MSDN geekSpeak: Advanced T-SQL Techniques with Tobias Thernstrom++
24 September 07 05:29 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Lots going on for me this week: Monday (Sept 24) - Halo 3 launch Wednesday (Sept 26) - 12-1 PST MSDN geekSpeak: Advanced T-SQL Techniques with Tobias Thernstrom Thursday (Sept 27) - 1-5 - MSDN live event at Irvine Spectrum - LINQ, WCF and Silverlight Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Technical Conference, geekSpeak

October 2007 geekSpeak links
23 September 07 04:38 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

We've got a great line-up for October. Join us live each Wednesday from noon to 1pm. Ask expert guests (working developers) tough questions about they are using new technologies. Click on the links below to register for the live webcasts. We'll post recorded Read More...

Filed under: SharePoint, geekSpeak, Webcasts

Picture-in-Picture Screencasts with Silverlight
23 September 07 03:08 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Check this out - cool stuff! Synergist : Picture-in-Picture Screencasts with Silverlight Read More...

Filed under: MSDN events, ASP.NET development

About Africa
20 September 07 05:20 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

I've returned from my first-ever trip to Africa. I was in Zambia for around two weeks, mostly as a volunteer for the US CDC, working on an electonic medical records tracking system called SmartCare. The intent of the system is to improve care for Zambians Read More...

Filed under: Helping

I'm in Zambia with Esther and Anton
11 September 07 01:36 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Sept 7th Esther and I met up in London and continued on to Lusaka, Zambia, then on to Macha, Zambia as part of a couple of weeks volunteering for the US CDC on a medical records project being developed by a local team called SmartCare. Read more details Read More...

Filed under: Helping

Marathon flying - destination Macha, Zambia
06 September 07 03:09 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

Tomorrow evening begins a long journey to the other side of the earth for me (literally). As part of a group of volunteers for the US CDC, I am spending the next couple of weeks in Zambia. While there I will be working with a local developer team on a Read More...

Filed under: Helping

Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot
05 September 07 07:14 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Big news announced today - are you up-to-date on this yet? » Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com Read More...

Filed under: MSDN events, ASP.NET development, geekSpeak

Sometime I just love to laugh - Stranger Than Paradise
05 September 07 04:59 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Jim Jarmusch movies in general are great; ironically his first one is the one I like best. Thankfully, I could still get it from Amazon . Read More...

Filed under: Fun

Download LINQPad - a free LINQ query expression tool
04 September 07 05:33 AM | llangit | 9 Comments   

In keeping with my current theme of "free and cool" stuff. Here's something else - LINQPad. Download LINQPad Read More...

Filed under: Vista development, MSDN events, ASP.NET development

FREE Virtual Training Series - Longhorn developer topics
03 September 07 05:35 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Check this out - labcasts - very cool (don't you love this free stuff?) - here are the topics: WCF, WF, Windows Eventing, PowerShell, IIS 7.0, CardSpace, Transactional File System, Vitualization, High Performance Computing Microsoft Virtual Training Series Read More...

Filed under: Vista development, ASP.NET development, CardSpace, Webcasts

SharePoint 2007 Free Features
02 September 07 08:40 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Awesome collection of Features on CodePlex. Thanks to Scot Hillier. Note the AJAX.config feature in particular. SharePoint 2007 Features - Home Read More...

Filed under: ASP.NET development, MOSS, SharePoint, Webcasts

Just another hot day in SoCal == Shakemap
02 September 07 08:32 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Where else but here would Shakemaps be on the news? Stay cool, turn off the TV, read a book, take a nap, what else can you do? Shakemap sc10275733 Read More...

Filed under: Fun

IIS7 : Beta to GoLive list of Hosters
01 September 07 05:03 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

IIS 7.0 is coming - will you be ready? Try out these FREE (during Beta) hosters. IIS.net : IIS7 GoLive Hosters : Microsoft Internet Information Services Read More...

Filed under: ASP.NET development