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I can't believe it is March already.  For those of you in the New York City area, Devscovery be here, April 1st-3rd, and I'll be doing 2 talks, An Introduction to LINQ to SQL, and An Introduction to LINQ to Entities.  If you haven't heard about Devscovery, here's the details right from their FAQs Devscovery is a three-day multi-track ...

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 ...

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 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) ...

Scott recently announced that we will be having the third New Jersey Code Camp on November 18th at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ.  We have not opened registration yet, but we are accepting session abstracts through this form on Scott's site.  We usually try to get about 16 to 20 sessions, and we are always looking for new ...

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 ...

Infragistics hosts both Java and .Net user groups.  The .Net group is called Central New Jersey .Net User Group and the Java group is called Princeton Java User Group.  The Java group has the following non-Java topics coming up that may interest some of my readers: Fast and Easy Web Development using Ruby on Rails August 29, ...