Don Xml's Grok This

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 rather sit down with the presenter for 5 minutes and get all the details, then ...

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 gems”.  The names behind the sessions may not be instantly recognizable, ...

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 and a sense of identity. My 3rd place does not exist in the normal sense.  I do not ...