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81 days ago
Okay. Life has been rolling so very fast lately. Here are a few quick updates to as quickly as possible keep everyone updated: Jan 24, 2009 – Second annual - HoustonTechFest – Presented “Building Powerful WebParts with SharePoint 2007” and “WCF for the REST of us”! Awesome audience participation! Feb 7, 2009 – Presented at the first annual SharePoint Saturday KC - “Building Powerful WebParts with SharePoint 2007”. Becky Isserman and team did an awesome job! Attended some awesome presentations. Had some great BBQ with Daniel Larson! March 1-5, 2009 – MVP Summit 09! Totally awesome. Got to see the Gu (Scott Guthrie) and hang out with a bunch of the SharePoint MVPs! March 28, 2009 – Second annual School of Dev / first time to join with SharePoint Saturday! – about 87 people braved the weather reports to attend. It was just rain! Then 9am to 3pm had about 6+ inches of snow drop and stop. Within 24 hours 99.9% was all melted. Presented “Building Powerful ...
257 days ago
Yesterday I had the great privilege of presenting to the Oklahoma Chapter of the IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners). This was the first time in a few years that I presented to a mostly non-developer audience. I really enjoyed the challenge and hope to have the opportunity to do that more frequently. It is much more challenging, since you have to actually explain something without really being able to dive into code and show exactly what your talking about. Since SQL Data Services along with the rest of the Windows Azure framework is still in beta, I tried to make the session as interactive as possible with Q & A, Open Discussion, etc. Here are the slides that I used: zip (2.4 mb – Office 2007/pptx). I grabbed them from our awesome Microsoft Developer Evangelist Zain Naboulsi, who presented VS2008 Debugging, Mobile and Azure back on Jan 30th. Since he was covering so much and pressed for time, he didn’t get to cover SQL Data ...
325 days ago
Happy New Year! At the pace that 2009 has started off at it is very obvious it will be a very successful year. Bad Economy? Ha! Please help me congratulate the 16 new speakers welcomed into the INETA NORAM Speakers Bureau (in no particular order): 1. Chris Williams 2. Keith Elder 3. Jason Bock 4. Claudio Lassala 5. Rachel Appel 6. Andrew Dunn 7. Chris Love 8. Cory Smith 9. Tim Rayburn 10. Jim Wooley 11. Rob Windsor 12. Amanda Laucher 13. Adam Machanic 14. Stuart Celarier 15. Pete Brown 16. Steve Andrews Thank you to all who submitted applications. The selection process was very difficult and the number of applicants overwhelming, because of this we will be having a second round in the first quarter of 2009. Have your local INETA User Group request them to come and deliver a presentation. If you are not a member of one, join one, if there is not one near you, start one - http://www.ineta.org. “You can learn more ...
