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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 ...

Hmm, just heard about this news.   Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML?  Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each other.  Some Macromedia employees have been known to slam SVG (although ...

Disclaimer: My name is Don Demsak, and I’m not a Microsoft employee.  I am an independent consultant and a Microsoft MVP in the area of XML.  Any information on a Microsoft technology contained in this post is publicly available and not covered under a NDA or obtained via internal Microsoft sources.  I do not speak for ...

eWeek has an article on Xamlon, and it contains a couple quotes from your truly.  I would have preferred to be called an XML evangelist, rather than an XML expert, but it isn’t that big of a deal.  Also, ‘domain logical” should be “domain logic”.

The W3C is sponsoring a workshop on Web Apps and Compound Docs in San Jose, June 1st & 2nd. From the web site: Position papers submitted for this workshop topic should address at least some of the following questions: What functionality is needed for Web applications? What should a hosting environment provide? How much of a Web ...

Break out the good stuff, because I’ll be doing .Net Rocks this Thursday (April 29th), at their new time 10:00PM EDT to midnight, and I’m going to be live in the studios.  I wonder if Carl has a kegerator in the studio (one like ChrisA mentioned in his blog this week).  Catch it live here, it should be one hell of a ...