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The NYC IASA chapter is holding an IT Architect Regional Conference in New York City on May 22-23 at the NYC Microsoft office. The speaker list is quite impressive, and has a couple local Microsoft MVPs among the list (Mark Pollack, Ambrose Little...
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I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform and other platforms. By Saturday night, my brain...
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Since I'm talking about conferences, I should also mention that I'll be giving a full day pre-conference workshop, LINQ — One Query Syntax to Rule Them All at VSLive! San Francisco 2008 : By now you have probably already heard about LINQ and think...
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I can't believe it is March already. For those of you in the New York City area, Devscovery be here, April 1st-3rd, and I'll be doing 2 talks, An Introduction to LINQ to SQL , and An Introduction to LINQ to Entities . If you haven't heard...
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Disclaimer - the folks at Diskeeper gave me a free copy of Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier. But, I've purchased previous versions of their product. I've been using Diskeeper for a couple years now, and I've got to say, I love this product. Back before...
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M. David Peterson kickstarted the process to get Chris Sells to host another SellsCon by creating a new Facebook group . I've got to say, the ALT.Net conference in Austin sort of reminded me of the spirit of a SellsCon (getting a bunch of bright passionate...
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Bil Simser asks the question "Do SharePoint Developers Want a Developer Version of SharePoint?", and I've got to say YES. Yes, Sharepoint desperately needs a version that a developer can use on a desktop OS. As Bil mentions, Biztalk has this, why not...
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It has been a long while since I did a proper CD review, and I thought I should get some new stuff up here. I've been listening to all sorts of new music, but haven't really gotten into one style of music lately (which is what usually happens with...
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In a recent article on the Redmond Developer News website about the new Microsoft Declarative Language D, I was quoted, but it is was slightly inaccurate. The first part is corrected: "said he believes both the D language and Oslo will be featured at...
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Melissa and I had a blast at the Raleigh Code Camp. Thanks to all the folks that helped to coordinate this event! Here' the slide deck and the demo app . It was a great opportunity to work on my material for the full day pre-conference on LINQ at VSLive...
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Looks like Microsoft delayed the "next" Professional Developers Conference a whole year. They just announced that it will be Oct. 27th-30th, 2008, back in LA (were else?). For some reason, I'm not excited. I think that will change over the next couple...
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I'm making my first INETA speaking gig on Wed. Dec. 5th, up at the Rhode Island User Group . The topic will in LINQ (what else?) An Intro to the One Query Syntax to Rule Them All – LINQ An introduction to the new standard query syntax (LINQ) added to...
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Man, I sure screwed up when I upgraded my Zune to version 2, and it is too late to go back. The Zune firmware upgrade really isn't too bad, but the Zune V2 software is totally useless. Well, not totally, because it can sync your media from your PC to...
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If you are using the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Virtual PC images, you will want to backup your data to another location (you should be doing that anyway). Microsoft is trying to get the word out about a major snafu - "that the current Visual Studio 2008...
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I finally broke down redirected my RSS feeds to FeedBurner . A couple days ago, using the built in CommunityServer functionality, I redirected my 3 "category" feeds to Feedburner. Since CommunityServer automatically handles the redirects, it was very...
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