Don Xml's Grok This

If you want to find out about Microsoft’s next generation of technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, IIS 7, ASP.NET Ajax, and you happen to live near New York City, LA or Denver, well you might want to check out this free full day event.  The dates are: New ...

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 finally got around to downloading the Orcas September 2006 CTP bits, and started to play with it a bit.  If you want to play along with me, you can download it here, or if you have a MSDN subscription, it is up there too (and I think the download times from the MSDN Subcription are a bit better, plus you get to stop and resume the ...

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 ...

Microsoft conference (and marketing blunder) called MIX06 is giving away 3 free trips to what, in essence, is the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) with a different name.  The contest is called Remix MIX and is essentially CSS Zen Garden-like contest, where your objective is to use pure CSS to skin a designated page.  The ...

One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout.  Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made in the .Net camp to oust the Table camp and replace them with the CSS Camp.  There ...

Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP.  The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working on.  If I knew Microsoft was working on things like this, it would be covered ...

Well, well, well, Pablo Fernicola finally has a blog.  Pablo is a Group Program Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly called Avalon).  He will be presentation the following session at the PDC: PRS309 - Windows Presentation Foundation (''Avalon''): Overview of Windows Vista Graphics September 14, 1:45 PM - 3:00 ...

I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow).  The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as must see speakers, and checking out what/when they are presenting.  Once I have the ...