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I’ll be presenting on Inversion of Control with StructureMap at the next meeting of the .NET user group. It will be exactly as awesome as it sounds. Simplify your life with Inversion of Control! One of the most challenging aspects of software development
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The 2009 St Louis Day of .NET was a lot of fun and the venue this year (Ameristar) was a huge upgrade from last year’s. Here are the materials from my presentation. Building a Silverlight Game with Visual Studio and Expression Studio This session
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Just about a month until DevLink. The conference schedule has been posted . I’ll be presenting on Ruby on Rails Friday, Aug 14 and on Silverlight Saturday, Aug 15. Tickets are still available . Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit
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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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This quarter's ArcReady topic is "Architecting for the client tier" and will be coming to St. Louis May 21st . The client (or presentation) tier of our applications is taking on an increasingly important role. Users are expecting more compelling user
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If you like conferences, and you like me, or maybe you just like one of the two, then you should come to DevLink 2009 August 13 – 15 in Nashville, TN. Registration is currently open. I’ll be presenting my Ruby on Rails for .NET/Java Developers presentation
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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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The St Louis C# user group has Patrick Smacchia lined up for their March event. Patrick is a Microsoft MVP, creator of NDepend, and author of several .NET books. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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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 my coworker Shawn's attempt to play nicely with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 during the St Louis Install Fes t . Luckily, you didn't need to actually complete the install to get your free copy. And free t-shirts always help the medicine go down.
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Microsoft and the St Louis Visual Basic User's Group appear to be giving away copies of Visual Studio 2008. Sign up at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360731 Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit
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