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Visual Studio Team System Presentations coming in February
On February 4th I'll be doing a GeekSpeak web cast on "What you didn't know about VSTS 2008" On February 19th I'll be in San Francisco for the MSDN Developer Conference presenting "A Lap Around VSTS 2010"
PDC Follow-up
PDC 2008 finished up last Thursday. I had a very productive time, both attending sessions and networking. Here are some of the session highlights: Keynote on Day 1 - Windows Azure announcement by Ray Ozzie. The cloud is coming. With Windows Azure, Microsoft...
LA Code Camp a Success
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...
Countdown to PDC
PDC is almost here. And, as a warm-up, we have the LA Code Camp Saturday and Sunday at USC. There will be over 80 presentations from our local talent, several “out of towners”, and some of the Microsoft product team members down for PDC. For...
Microsoft Product Team Meetings
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...
LA Code Camp
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...
Dynamic Languages and the DLR presentations at user groups and code camp
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...
New PDC Sessions Added
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#...
TechEd Recap
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...
Florida Tweener Event
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...
Bill Gates Keynote at TechEd 2008 Developer Week
Bill Gates keynote kicked off TechEd – Developers. This was likely one of his last big event appearances before his day-to-day retirement from Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. He touched on the early days of development and how far we have come...
SoCal Code Camp June 28 & 29, University of California San Diego Extension
The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp is set for June 28 & 29 at UCSD Extension Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms...
Keith Pleas speaking at SoCal .Net Architecture
Designing for Operations Keith Pleas will be talking about management modeling, health modeling, the DSL language that was used in the just released Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool. The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool...