Don Xml's Grok This

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 ...

If you are one of my regular readers, you know that I’m a senior .Net consultant out of New Jersey, and don’t do the traveling thing.  I’m sort of in between career plateaus, and trying to migrate from the 40 hours a week at one client style of consulting to having more then one client style.  If you know of someone ...

Here’s an update on my .Net Community Contest.  I’ve decided what I’m doing with my three MSDN Universal subscriptions, and I’m going to give them away to people in the NJ .Net Community that have stepped up to the cause and tried to help grow our little community.  I’ve talked to some other folks that were ...