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Visual Studio Extensibility Chalk Talk Monday 3PM

If you can't make my Visual Studio Extensibility session on Monday at 1:15PM , or, if you just have some Visual Studio Extensibility questions, then you want to plan on attending the Build Custom Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio - DEV08-TLC. It will Read More... Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 4:06 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: TechEd, VSX

Using LinkedIn For TechEd 2007

I'm you are a member of the social network site LinkedIn and will be attending TechEd Orlando 2007 , you might want to check out TechEd's social networking site, TechEd Connect . I'm guessing that the very same people that use LinkedIn would be interested Read More... Posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:45 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd, .Net Communities

Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition

What's a Microsoft event with Palermo Party? The MVP Summit event was way, way, way over the top. I'll be at TechEd 2007, and wouldn't miss this. Here are the details: Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition June 3rd, 2007 @ 7PM - 11PM Glo Lounge: http://www.gloloungeorlando.com/ Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:27 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd

Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Webcast May 3

In case you haven’t heard (either thru James Lau's blog or Josh Holmes' blog ) I’ll be doing a webcast on Visual Studio Extensibility at 9AM Pacific time (12PM Eastern), May 3, 2007 titled: Do-It-Yourself Tools Inside Visual Studio Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:02 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd, VSX

TechEd Must See - ARCTLC14 Introducing the Service Factory

Day/Time: Wednesday, June 14 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Room: ARC Theater (Blue TLC Area) Day/Time: Friday, June 16 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Room: CON Theater 1 (Blue TLC Area) Speaker(s): Shy Cohen , Don Smith The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:45 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: XML, TechEd

TechEd 2006 Bathroom Update

This blog post is done for Rory , since he is not here at TechEd this year (well, truthfully, the bathroom update post is a traditionally a PDC thing, but since there is no PDC this year…) I must say, although the bathroom are germophobia friendly, Read More... Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 5:10 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

Filed under: TechEd

TechEd 2006 Hotel Choice

For the life of me, I can’t figure out where to stay for the Boston TechEd. I’m currently booked at the Hyatt Harborside, but I really have no desire to stay near the airport, especially when everything is towards the back bay. I know that Read More... Posted Monday, March 27, 2006 11:44 PM by donxml | 7 Comments

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Scoble On Costs of Conferences - Forgets About Success of Free Code Camps

Robert Scoble has a nice write up on why tech conferences are expensive to run , but leaves out one of the most successful “nouveaux” conferences around, Code Camps , which happen to be totally free. Thom Robbins (a Microsoft Developer Evangelist) Read More... Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 8:22 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, TechEd, Tech Ramblings

Is Object Oriented Programming The Problem?

I recently told this story to M. David, who got a kick out of it and just had to blog some of it. One of my favorite parts of conferences is hanging out with my ‘net friends, and getting into some deep conversations about topics that make normal Read More... Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 9:43 PM by donxml | 10 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, PDC, TechEd

TechEd 2005 – Hits and Misses

It’s the Sunday after TechEd 2005, and I finally recovered enough to sit down and write up the DonXml TechEd 2005 Hits and Misses. Hit – The Cabanas. Hands down, my favorite part of TechEd is the cabanas. The sessions are good, but I’d Read More... Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 3:35 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

Filed under: .Net, SQL Server, TechEd

TechEd Hidden Gem Sessions

Sessions by Don Box, Kimberly Tripp, and Scott Hansleman, and the like, are always guaranteed to draw a crowd (and rock), but lesser know people can have great sessions too. So, I’d like to take some time and point out what I refer to as “hidden Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 1:27 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, SQL Server, TechEd

My Virtual 3rd Place Becomes Reality for a Week

3rd Place - "Social condensers" -- the place where citizens of a community or neighborhood meet to develop friendships, discuss issues, and interact with others -- have always been an important way in which the community developed and retained cohesion Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 10:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, SQL Server, TechEd

Unofficial TechEd XML Cabana - JW Marriott Lobby Lounge

I was checking in with some of the usual suspect ( Christoph , Kir k, Kent , Jeff Julian , kzu , Christian Weyer , etc.) and it seems as though the XML crew will be spread out amongst the other Cabanas at TechEd. I’m in the DBA Cabana, Kent and Read More... Posted Sunday, May 29, 2005 9:15 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, TechEd

Mentoring Service for New Code Camp Presenters

One of the things that were discussed between Stan and some of the presenters at the Philly Code Camp was the task of getting more people from the local community, and focusing less on “well known” speakers. Someone (and I can’t remember Read More... Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 7:25 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd

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