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Report from TechEd – Jam on IT Community Party
19 May 09 03:19 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Thursday was community party night at TechEd.  In addition to the attendee party, we in SoCal were able to invite around 300 people from the local tech community (who weren’t registered to attend TechEd).  It was really cool to see who turned Read More...
Report from TechEd – ITPros know how to throw a great party!
18 May 09 10:17 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Well it wouldn’t be TechEd, if there weren’t one or more fun parties to attend, but I have to hand it to our corporate ITPro team this year.  Their Windows 7 SpringBoard party at the StandardLA was really great. The atmosphere was great – Stephen Read More...
Post TechEd SoCal Tech Events
16 May 09 05:01 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
There are worse problems to have, but a person really needs stamina to keep up with all of the possible tech events in SoCal.  I had fun at TechEd, working in the Oslo booth with the team (finally met Don Box in person!), leading the WiT event, attending Read More...
SoCalDevGal is heading over to Europe
02 March 09 05:37 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Yup, I am taking a little work trip - leaving shortly for 20 days in Europe.  During this time I'll be speaking at TechDays Belgium in Antwerp , TechDays Sweden in Vasteras and more.  Although I've been to other European countries in the past, Read More...
DigiGirlz in Los Angeles
09 February 09 10:52 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Here are the three slide decks we will use for the hands-on classes around Kodu, SQL Server 2008 Express and Small Basic, as well as links to more information about each of the applications. We will have a video of the entire DigiGirlz event that we will Read More...
Want to go to Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles for free? Volunteer to work there
09 February 09 06:38 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   
  Submit your name via the Call for Staff tool. You will then be considered for a staff position helping at one of the product demo stations in the Technical Learning Center (TLC). Upon completing the required fields and clicking on the “Submit” Read More...
The Underground @ PDC - PDC2008 - party video
02 November 08 01:58 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   
  Yeah, we at Microsoft know how to throw a party for our local developer community (did I mention that Woody rocks?)  We invited about 400 of our geek friends to the Edison in LA last Wednesday to share PDC info, we even got ' theGu ' himself, Read More...
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...
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...
Two weeks in Seattle with SoCalDevGal
02 August 08 07:08 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
I've just returned from a trip to Seattle.  Many of you have asked, "What are you doing there?"  So, here you go.... The overall purpose of the trip was technical readiness.  To that end I (mostly) attended a MS-internal conference Read More...
CodeFest comes to the Second Life on June 11th
10 June 08 10:03 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
  We are doing more and more evangelism in Second Life (yes, I'll be there too soon!)  Check out this new type of event.  Here's more information from Dave's blog: In partnership with the Second Life .NET Developers User Group along with Read More...
PDC2008 registration is open
30 May 08 01:27 AM | llangit | 3 Comments   
Among the goodness at this year's PDC in LA in this October is a pre-con session that I'm particularly excited about.  If you ask me really nicely, I'll tell you the story of how Asli and I cooked up the idea for this one over drinks on a train one Read More...
I'll be at BarCamp San Diego this Saturday, May 3
28 April 08 10:41 PM | llangit | 2 Comments   
It'll be my first time to BarCamp in San Diego (have been at one in LA before). These are fun, very relaxed and you can learn a thing or two as well. This one is being held at the Microsoft office in San Diego. Microsoft office San Diego So if you are Read More...
Where's Lynn in April 2008?
14 April 08 07:58 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Many of you have been pinging me - 'where are you?', 'we missed you at this event, that event? ' etc...Yeah, I've been hermit-like, writing and researching my new book. I will be out-and-about in SoCal in April and here's where I'll be. As I said at last Read More...
Watch a developer evangelist multitask
29 March 08 11:41 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
At CommunityNext in Hollywood (a dimly lit bar on a Saturday morning, wierd), networking, listening to Scoble now, working on the demos for the presentation shown below for Monday, twittering, texting, IMing, debugging WCF, talking with Heather about Read More...
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