Don Xml's Grok This

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 San Fran.

I'll be at the first ALT.Net Conference in Austin this weekend.  I'll be getting in around 12:30PM Friday and staying at the conference hotel, Holiday Inn Austin NW.  I was hoping to have my new transformation framework built on .Net 3.5 ready to demo, but, it isn't ready, yet.  I'll bounce some ideas off the conference ...

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 ...

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 ...

NYC Code Camp 2 will be held Saturday, March 3rd at the Microsoft office in Midtown Manhattan.  As with all Code Camps, this is a 100% free event, and all the speakers are volunteers (and most are from the local developer community).  After the sucess of my Intro to LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic talk at the NYC .Net User Group back in ...

For the 2006 TechEd in Boston, Doug Reilly (Microsoft MVP for ASP.Net and follow Jerseyan) had a Birds of a Feather session on Geeks with Cancer and other Serious Diseases which was spurred on by his article A Personal Perspective on the Responsibilities of a Cancer-surviving Software Developer.  Well, if you know Doug and/or have been ...

I was just informed that Microsoft will be providing a Zune portable music player to be given away to one lucky NJ Code Camp attendee.  Like you needed another reason to hang out with a bunch of developers this Saturday, Nov. 18th at the Microsoft Iselin location.  Today, I put up the schedule on the NJ Code Camp site.  A ...

The preliminary session list is now up on the NJCodeCamp site and you can now register to attend.  I expect it to fill up very fast.  This is especially true if you want to jump onto the Sharepoint 2007 bandwagon before everyone else, as Robert Holmes is coming down from Boston, and he is giving 4 great sessions on Sharepoint 2007.  ...

It has been a crazy couple weeks, and I haven't had much time to think, no less blog.  But today I'm headed off to my first trip off the North American continent.  Eight hours stuck in a long aluminum tube over the Atlantic Ocean doesn't really appeal to me, but it looks like the flight is pretty empty, so it looks like I will not have ...

It looks like the next 2+ months are officially LINQ months on my calendar.  If you happen to be going to the Heartland Developers Conference, I'll be doing 2 LINQ based talks on Thursday, Oct. 26th. The Visual Basic Intro to LINQ presentationIntro To LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic Track : Store It Day : 1 (2:30PM - 4:00PM) ...