California State University, Fullerton’s Extended Education is putting together a certificate program in Service Oriented Architecture. I’m proud to be a contributor to this program and will be teaching a segment, "Elements of Service...
Adam Calderon has a new book out. “Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Cerver Controls for .NET Framework 3.5” co authored with Joel Rumerman. Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 Early sales numbers are looking good on Amazon: Top...
The TechZulu people were at the Inland Empire .NET 's special meeting honoring its Most Valuable Members (MVM). They have some really interesting interviews on people and action in the tech entrepreneurial space. I had the honor of being interviewed...
Last month I had the privelage of delivering one of four mini presentations at the Inland Empire .NET 's special MVM meeting. James Johnson, IE.NET president has really put together an inovative program for getting volunteers involved in the group...
Over the past month, I’ve made the rounds of several Southern California user groups and the San Diego Code Camp presenting “Dynamic Languages and the DLR.” · San Gabriel Valley .NET on June 18 · IASA SoCal/SoCal .NET Architecture...
On July 1, a bunch of new sessions were added to the PDC. You can see the full list of sessions that have been published (so far) at the PDC site . Here are some interesting sessions: An Introduction to F# Learn about Microsoft's new language, F#...
In addition to the INETA Community Champion award , another really exciting new program that INETA has launched this year is the Community Excellence Award . The INETA Community Excellence Award is given to individuals for their extraordinary efforts...
INETA Rewards those Active in the User Group Community An XBox or MSDN Subscription to the 10 Most Active Contributors in the User Group Community each quarter. How? By doing what you are doing already, you stand to win: a) Valuable Prizes: An MSDN Subscription...
With TechEd being split into two weeks for Developers and IT Pros, it was a long experience for me. I covered both weeks for INETA. The first week we had the whole team on board and a lot of community stuff going on. We kept the INETA kiosk area well...
The third San Diego Code Camp came off this past weekend as a real success. Thanks to UCSD Extension for once again hosting Code Camp. Great location and the weather was perfect. Lots of really good content and all the sessions I went to were well attended...
Today, June 20, Graham Watson, a senior marketing manager at Microsoft focused on technical communities announced some changes in conjunction with Culminis . These changes are designed to bring improvements across the board in how Microsoft supports user...
With the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK has been updated as well. There is a lot of new stuff. Check out Jimmy Schementi's blog for details. Here's a quick recap: Description This project represents the integration...
Florida has a great .Net user group culture and it was organized in full force putting together a great weekend of geeky stuff. Joe Healey, the local DE played a big part in helping to organize and support. He hosted a Friday night get together at TGI...
This week at TechEd Daniel Egan, Morgan Baker and Rob Zelt attended a roundtable luncheon with Bill Gates along with other “influential members of the community” and S. Somasegar. Check out Rob and Daniel’s blogs http://www.robzelt.com...
Last session on Friday, end of TechEd Developer week. There were two sessions in this time slot that I wanted to attend – Rich Hundhausen’s “Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server: Migrate of Integrate” or John’s...