Don Xml's Grok This

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 ...

The blog tagging meme thing has been traveling around the blogsphere and I've been tagged by Jerry Dennany.  If you haven't run across it yet, this is how it is supposed to go.  You give 5 things that people in the blogsphere probably didn't know and about you, and then you tag 5 other individuals.  I'm guessing that the idea ...

Chip is wondering if the New Jersey developer community would be interested in a user group focused on building User Interfaces using the various Microsoft tools/technologies.  Chip has been looking to start up a user group, but like a lot of us, his interests vary widely, and he wants to make sure that there would be enough interest, and ...

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) ...

I'll be at NYC Bar Camp 2 on Saturday, 9/30/2006.  It is sort of the non-Microsoft clique's version of Code Camps.  A couple of their unique twists, all attendees are supposed to present/participate, there is no schedule of sessions (you just sign up at the door to speak), and they have a sleepover in the building Saturday ...

It has been a very long time since we last had a New Jersey Developers Dinner, but that is going to change this week.  Any Information Technology professional (developer or ITPro) that lives or works in New Jersey is welcome to attend the NJDD.  The date is August 24, 6PM, at the Harvest Moon in New Brunswick, NJ.  The only people ...

The NJ SQL Server User Group is hosting a very special user group meeting on August 15th, courtesy of INETA ...... Presentation:  "SQL Server 2005 CLR Executables" with Bill Vaughn. Bill Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server and data access interfaces.  The ...

The registration site for New Jersey Code Camp 2 is now open! I expect this to fill up fast (but not as fasst as the NYC Code Camp, which filled up in something like 48 hours).  If you are still interested in speaking at this event, we have some slots still left (fill out this form and email it to june2006@njcodecamp.org).  Remember, as ...

I just published the most recent session list for NJ Code Camp 2.  Some of the the regular NJ developer community speakers have asked for slots, but haven't submitted abstracts yet, so they are listed as TBD.  With 6 confirmed sessions on Orcas timeframe technologies (with at least a few more abstracts to come), this event definitely ...

I announced this about a week ago on the NJ Code Camp site, but I’ll put it up here to help get the word out. The next New Jersey Code Camp will be held on Saturday, June 3rd at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ (the same place as the first one). We are currently looking for presenters, so please send your abstracts (download the form ...