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The 2009 Day of .NET is happening August 28 and 29th. I’ll be presenting on “Building a Silverlight game with Visual Studio and Expression Blend”. This presentation will walk through using the two developer tools in concert to build a fun little Silverlight
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The second St. Louis Day of .NET is coming to the Ameristar Conference Center in August. If you attended the first St Louis Day of .NET in December last year, this one looks like it will be an improvement in several areas: Two days instead of one More
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Here's the slide deck from my recent presentation at the .NET User group . This was the same presentation that I gave at the Daugherty Lunch N Learn, but the slide deck is dramatically different due to reading Presentation Zen between the first presentation
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The next edition of ArcReady is will cover the new Azure Services Platform. From the site: For our next ArcReady, we will explore a topic on everyone’s mind: Cloud computing. Several industry companies have announced cloud computing services . In October
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I'll be presenting ' Ruby on Rails for .NET Developers ' at the .NET user group on February 23rd. The .NET user group is always a treat, so please stop by! Abstract : Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular framework for building database-backed web
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Only one search engine is bright enough to figure out that "dot net" is another way of referring to the Microsoft .NET Framework, and it's not Microsoft's search engine. Despite my best efforts to like Live Search, it seems Google is always several steps
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Here's a fun one! Our Enterprise Library exception handling logging mysteriously quit logging to the Application event log yesterday at 6:00 PM. It was still logging to files, still handling all of the other exception handling rules, but just not logging
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Microsoft is hosting an official launch for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 around the country this spring. The event will include "promotional" versions of all three products, although I'm not entirely sure if that means
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The January 28 meeting of the St Louis .NET User Group will cover the Windows Live Platform. Clint Edmonson, an Architect Evangelist from Microsoft, will be presenting. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Here's a nice, good-looking set of slides from a recent Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Presentation I gave. The slides cover all the basics: tools, XAML, dependency properties, data binding. Windows Presentation Foundation (Office 2007 Format)
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Here are some slides from a recent presentation I gave on the ADO.NET Entity framework. The presentation was a pretty high-level overview, so don't expect a whole lot of detail. ADO.NET Entity Framework (Office 2007 format) ADO.NET Entity Framework (Office
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Ron Jacobs, creator and host of the acclaimed online series ARCast.TV, will do a special presentation at the Microsoft office at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, October 16th. The topic of Ron's talk will be "The Perfect Patterns Storm: Where TDD Meets UX and MVP."
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The September 24 meeting of the STL.NET User Group will feature a panel of .NET and Java experts discussing the merits of both programming camps. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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The Aug 27 meeting of the STL.NET User Group will cover .NET Test Automation and be presented by James McCaffrey. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Microsoft is hosting a half-day MSDN event on Thursday, Aug 30 at the AMC Creve Coeur theatre in St Louis. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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