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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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  TechEd Birds of a Feather Session - XSLT2, XQuery and Saxon.Net

  I submitted a suggestion for the Birds of a Feather Sessions at TechEd on XSLT2, XQuery, and Saxon.Net. If you are interested in hanging out and talking about XSLT2 and XQuery and why/how to use it in .Net stop by the site and vote for the session . While Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:49 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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