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On Saturday morning, November 15, just after 9:00 am we saw smoke in the distance (maybe 4 - 5 miles) straight behind our home. That was a real concern with the Santa Ana winds are blowing straight at us with gusts over 60 mph. We had our grand kids staying...
TechDays was a hoot. Three days of free content fresh from PDC and a whole lot more. Lynn Langit kept everything moving with some social networking for attendee questions in addition to her own presentations. I had a great time helping to organize the...
Last week at PDC 2008 there was a lot of great evening activity going on in addition to the daytime sessions. Coolest was the Underground @ PDC. Hosted at the Edison, a club located in the basement of what once was an old Edison power station, the event...
The first LA Code Camp held Oct 25 and 26 at USC was a success. It's been about 5 years since I was last on the campus (USC was a major client for a few years) and there are new buildings sprouting everywhere. I met up with Harry Pierson (Iron Python...
Microsoft is doing a TechDays event November 11-13 at the Cost Mesa Hilton. November 13 is focused on Architecture and Microsoft has asked me to organize the development architecture track. A key part of that will be an architecture panel discussion in...
In mid September I, along with other INETA NorAm board members, had the pleasure of meeting with several product teams at Microsoft while in Redmond for an INETA board of directors meeting. In our product team meetings, we shared our overall plan INETA...
One of my major responsibilities, as Treasurer for INETA, is to prepare our annual budget submission to Microsoft. INETA is a volunteer organization that depends on funding from various sources in order to provide services to our user groups. As you may...
Last Tuesday I presented my continually evolving “Dynamic Languages and the DLR” at the San Diego .NET Users Group . I have unit tests written in Iron Python running in NUnit as part of the presentation. This week, on Wednesday September 3...
Coming up October 25 and 26 is the first LA Code Camp . It’ll be held at the USC campus. This is the weekend just before PDC so we may see some of the Microsoft product teams attending. I’m again doing my continuous evolving dynamic languages...
Coming up September 27 and 28 is the Central Coast Code Camp in San Luis Obispo. Again this year, it will be held at the Embassy Suites hotel. Check the Central Coast Code Camp web site for details. Looks like about 35 sessions registered thus far. I’ll...
Architect & IASA Connections October 6 - 8 San Francisco, CA Don’t miss this unique event for IT & Software Architects that will impact how you think, design & innovate – and help guide you as a professional architect. The conference...
SQL Server 2008 BI Architecture In this demo-filled session, Lynn explained architectural considerations around implementation of OLAP cubes and Data Mining models using the SQL Server 2008 product stack. Here she demonstrated SSAS, SSIS and SSRS. Her...
The Managed Services Engine - Curt Peterson, Neudesic Today’s SOA implementations require more than just Web services and messaging, they are complex environments in need of feature rich, robust management and governance solutions. End to end 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...
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