Don Xml's Grok This

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) is the man behind the idea, and has his Code Camp Manifesto.  Code Camps ...

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 folks just wonder what planet we are from (I call them the “scaring the ...

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 ...

I was checking in with some of the usual suspect (Christoph, Kirk, 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 Kirk are in the DAT Cabana, and Christoph is in the CSI (connected systems) Cabana.  ...

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 you are voting for the XSLT2 BoF, you may want to vote for these cool ...