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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want to find out about Microsoft’s next generation of technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, IIS 7, ASP.NET Ajax, and you happen to live near New York City, LA or Denver, well you might want to check out this free full day event.  The dates are: New ...

WOW!  That's about all I can say about what became the Agile track at Saturday's NY Code Camp.  If you missed NYC Code Camp 2, I think missed the start of something new and wonderful.  At last month's NYC .Net User Group, Stephen Forte made a comment that they (the group) hasn't had a speaker on Agile ...

Brendan has recently rolled out another home for a small, niche group of .Net bloggers, similar to the successful CodeBetter, called Devlicio.us.  Brendan is a veteran of the .Net blogging scene (and another interdependent consultant).  We talked about starting up another niche blogging site, but I've been too busy with other things ...