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If you can't make my Visual Studio Extensibility session on Monday at 1:15PM, or, if you just have some Visual Studio Extensibility questions, then you want to plan on attending the Build Custom Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio - DEV08-TLC.  It will be held in the Blue Theater 13, in the Technology Learning Center at 3PM, which happens to be ...

I'm you are a member of the social network site LinkedIn and will be attending TechEd Orlando 2007, you might want to check out TechEd's social networking site, TechEd Connect.  I'm guessing that the very same people that use LinkedIn would be interested in using TechEd Connect, so I went and created a LinkedIn group on the TechEd ...

What's a Microsoft event with Palermo Party?  The MVP Summit event was way, way, way over the top.  I'll be at TechEd 2007, and wouldn't miss this.  Here are the details: Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition June 3rd, 2007 @ 7PM - 11PMGlo Lounge: http://www.gloloungeorlando.com/8967 International Dr, Orlando, FL Cover ...

In case you haven’t heard (either thru James Lau's blog or Josh Holmes' blog) I’ll be doing a webcast on Visual Studio Extensibility at 9AM Pacific time (12PM Eastern), May 3, 2007 titled: Do-It-Yourself Tools Inside Visual Studio. For those of you going to TechEd, I’ll be doing a similar session there, but that ...

Day/Time: Wednesday, June 14 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM  Room: ARC Theater (Blue TLC Area) Day/Time: Friday, June 16 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM  Room: CON Theater 1 (Blue TLC Area) Speaker(s): Shy Cohen, Don Smith The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that have been build with the primary goal of ...

This blog post is done for Rory, since he is not here at TechEd this year (well, truthfully, the bathroom update post is a traditionally a PDC thing, but since there is no PDC this year…) I must say, although the bathroom are germophobia friendly, with no doors, and autoflush urinals, 3 urinals and 3 stalls and spread a half a mile apart ...

For the life of me, I can’t figure out where to stay for the Boston TechEd.  I’m currently booked at the Hyatt Harborside, but I really have no desire to stay near the airport, especially when everything is towards the back bay.  I know that Jeffrey Palermo is having his 2nd annual Party with Palermo at the Hilton Boston ...

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 ...

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 ...