Don Xml's Grok This

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 was pretty much on extreme overload.  One of the things I've been doing a lot of over the ...

In case you don't read the CodeBetter feed (and you should), I'm blogging over there now.  I'm not planning on giving up this blog, but I'm not going to cross post either.  I'm going to try to keep the CodeBetter blog more tales from the field, my experiences with ALT.Net.  They have a strong ALT.Net voice over there, and ...

From Andy's blog post: It looks like John Baird, Mitch Ruebush, Doug White, and Andy Schwam have started a .Net User Group for Northern Delaware.  They meet on the last Thursday of the month, at 5:30PM at Diamond Technologies, New Castle, DE.  If you live down that way and are tired of driving up to Philly to get your .Net ...

INETA recently announced that they are adding 15 new members to the INETA Speakers Bureau, and there are 3 New Jersey locals on that list.  Joining Miguel Castro and Sam Gentile (who moved to NJ last year) are Nick Landry (he lives in NJ now), J. Ambrose Little (also recently moved to NJ), and yours truly.  I'd like to ...

In case you missed Scott Watermasysk's blog entry, he created a NJ Software Developers group on Facebook.  If you haven't  heard about Facebook, it is a sort of mix between LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter.  This particular group is meant to be a social gathering place for software developers that live (or work) in New ...

I case you haven't heard, Scott Hanselman recently announced that he is joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in DevDiv, and Jesse Liberty joined Microsoft at the beginning of the month as a Senior Program Manager in the Silverlight group. Sometimes, I feel as though I'm one of the ''Last of the Mohicans''.  But in reality, it is ...

If you are a developer that specializes in Sharepoint (2003 or 2007), or Biztalk (2004, 2006, 2006R2), and lives in the New Jersey, New York City, Conn. area, I'm putting together an informal ''Job Syndicate''.  Basically, a loose network of individuals that will share information about open employee and consulting ...

If you live in Brooklyn, or wanted to live in Brooklyn, and you are a Senior .Net Developer you might want to check this out.

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 in using TechEd Connect, so I went and created a LinkedIn group on the TechEd ...

Well, it is finally official.  I'm finally "over the hill".  Time to kick back, relax, start eating prunes, switch to the local "Lite FM" station, start complaining about the music today's kids listen to, maybe run for a local government office, etc., etc. etc.  NOT!  Nothing is going to ...