October 2008 - Posts

Lynn Langit "Sharing Brains and Saving Lives" MindShare Talk
31 October 08 07:29 PM | llangit | 9 Comments   

Lynn Langit Sharing Brains and Saving Lives Video Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Helping

SERIOUS PLAY @PDC08 and more
29 October 08 07:41 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

I really love PDC - so many announcements (check out MSDN Ch9 videos from the event), seeing so many friends in person, geekdom and now WomenBuild with Serious Play from Lego - oh, and it's in my home town too! The many funny T-shirts are cracking me Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, PDC, Cloud development

MS Surface in the real world ATT Retail Demo, and, at PDC08
25 October 08 06:00 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Interesting to see 'real-world' use of Microsoft Surface.  This video was taken an an ATT phone store California and it shows a store employee explaining how to use the MS-Surface application to help customers. Since I am getting ready to head downtown Read More...

Filed under: PDC, Fun

Oslo and SOA and more...
23 October 08 02:36 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

We launched a cool new site to help you understand and use real-world SOA (service-oriented architecture).  I particularly like the section explaining Oslo .  I also like the Solutions section.  What do you think - is this site useful?  Read More...

Filed under: Vista development, Cloud development

Death by Email
18 October 08 11:00 PM | llangit | 3 Comments   

Ever feel like you just can't get on top of this? It's startling to think that I have over 1 GB of work-related email now. That is, of course, only one of my six or so various email accounts. How many messages do you receive per day? How many do you process Read More...

Filed under: Annoyances, Fun

PDC, TechDays, CodeCamp, BarCamp - Oct / Nov Developer events in SoCal!
15 October 08 06:20 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

We'll we've got a raft of live events coming up in SoCal for developers in late October and early November.  You may be thinking, hmm...which one(s) do I go to? how do I choose?  I'll write a bit about all them here, maybe that will help you Read More...

Filed under: MSDN events, Southern California, PDC, Technical Conference, Fun

I write like Madonna
14 October 08 07:32 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

My handwriting looks like this too, so why don't I have a bodyguard and a jet? (kidding) Oh, and...I'll be seeing my favorite material girl yet again at Dodger Stadium in LA on Nov 6th - text me if you are around that night. BTW...this is a pretty cool Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, ASP.NET development, Fun

Too lazy to blog, to social network, to tweet
14 October 08 06:30 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Are you part of the TV generation? Then you might want to try the 12seconds beta . New SoCal Developer Evangelist, Daniel Egan seems to like it: News News News | 12seconds.tv (alpha) Read More...

Filed under: Fun

Business Intelligence Visualization via Microsoft Surface
13 October 08 06:14 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

From the demo shown at the Microsoft BI conference last week.  This gives me lots of ideas about data visualization possibilities for BI - what about you? Also if you've not seen a Microsoft Surface device and you'd like to - let me know.  If Read More...

Filed under: BI

SoCalDevGal speaking at Mindshare LA on Oct 16th
11 October 08 06:08 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

What is Mindshare you ask? Efren from TechZulu interviews one of the Mindshare founders. Doug kindly invited me to be part of the October 16th speaker line up in LA at the LACY Studio Lofts . MindshareLA Here's this month's speaker list: William Kohnen Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Fun, Helping, Music

Psst...wanna' meet some geekGirls at PDC08?
07 October 08 02:02 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Then join us at WomenBuild . So, what the heck is this? It's a free session for developers who are registered for PDC08. Guess what - it's for both men and women! The pre-con session is centered around building your career as a developer. It will be held Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, PDC, Fun, Helping

We Build a Better World » Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC 2008)
05 October 08 05:53 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

I just returned from my first GHC conference, held this year in Keystone, CO. This is an annual conference of academics and industry to bring talented graduating female computer science students together with universities and companies.  There is Read More...

Filed under: Technical Conference, Fun, Helping