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I’m presenting “Modern Web Development With HTML5/CSS3/JQuery: What's the big deal?” for the Cape Fear .NET User Group September 19th.
The Cape Fear .Net User Group in Wilmington, NC is being resuscitated and I’m honored to have been asked to be the kickoff speaker in what I hope will be the first of many presentations I do for this reborn user group. I’m presenting my popular “Modern Web Development With HTML5/CSS3/JQuery: What's the big deal?” session and hoping that topic will draw a good crowd for the new group. Here’s the session overview: HTML has grown up and the lines separating web, desktop and mobile applications are getting ......
Posted On Monday, September 17, 2012 5:04 PM | Comments (0)
Windows 8 Developer Camp - Raleigh September 25th
Time is ticking away and the time to act is now! How's that for some motivation? :-) Microsoft Developer Evangelist Brian Hitney and I want to help you get your app in the store in time for the October 26 Windows 8 launch. Come join us on Tuesday, September 25, at 9:00 AM in the Microsoft RTP offices to learn how simple it can be to construct a world class Windows 8 application. Don't think you can be ready to join the Windows 8 launch? Come anyway. You might be surprised. Don't have any idea what ......
Posted On Friday, September 14, 2012 1:56 PM | Comments (0)
GrapeCity & ComponentOne Merger
Big news in the software component industry today… my good friends over at GrapeCity have unofficially announced (official announcement is tomorrow June 11, 2012) that they have acquired ComponentOne and will be merging the two companies. Yes, the people who bring you Spread.Net and ActiveReports have merged with one of the market’s leading developer component vendors and will continue to do business under the ComponentOne brand. I think this move will propel the company to new heights in the component ......
Posted On Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:24 PM | Comments (0)
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Officially Launched Today
It’s official!! Microsoft released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 today. Here are a few places to read more about today’s release and for more information about LightSwitch 2011. Jason Zander’s blog The LightSwitch Team blog Beth Massi’s blog I’m excited about the release. Today’s timing is perfect since we have a project we’re about start and we’re going to be using LightSwitch in order to quickly get a functioning application in front of our users. Based on the initial prototyping work we’ve done ......
Posted On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:16 PM | Comments (0)
Free eBooks from Microsoft/MSDN
Just reminder of a post I wrote back in December. Don’t forget that there is a variety of free ebooks available for download on a number of different developer and IT topics. Developer subjects include Programming Windows Phone 7, Moving to Visual Studio 2010, and Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2. IT topics include Deploying Windows 7, Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions and First Look at Office 2010 just to name a few. Have a day ......
Posted On Monday, May 23, 2011 9:46 AM | Comments (0)
Introducing Debugger Canvas Power Tool for VS 2010
Oh this is just too cool… check out the new Debugger Canvas Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010. You have got to watch the demo video. It’s called the Debugger Canvas and the best news is that it’s going to be available for download from the Microsoft DevLabs next month. It looks like this could really revolutionize the way we debug code in Visual Studio. There is a lot to like here. I like being able to see all the code in the call stack. I like being able to save the status of an object for comparison ......
Posted On Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:24 AM | Comments (0)
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Released!
Just thought I’d pass on the word that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now available to download. VS2010 SP1 Beta ships with a go live license which means you can start using it for production work though I’m not sure I’m going to be that brave until I check it out a bit first. Jason Zanders has a blog post outlining the new features/fixes included in the beta. Here are a couple BREAKING news items you’ll want to TakeNote of… VS2010 SP1 Beta BREAKS ASP.NET MVC 3 RC Razor IntelliSense. ......
Posted On Thursday, December 9, 2010 9:17 PM | Comments (0)
.NET Rocks Road Trip in Raleigh this week May 6th…

Don’t forget to mark your calendar for Thursday May 6th as the .NET Rocks Road Trip comes to town!

Where:

Reynolds Theatre, Duke University, West Campus

125 Science Dr.

Durham, NC 27708

When:

Thursday, May 06, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)

Have a day. :-|

Posted On Monday, May 3, 2010 9:07 PM | Comments (0)
FREE Online Azure Workshop includes a **FREE Azure Account**
My friend and all around good guy, Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Carolinas, Brian Hitney, along with fellow Microsofties Jim O’Neil and John McClelland will be presenting a FREE Windows Azure online workshop tomorrow, Tuesday, May 4th from 7pm-9pm. What? You can’t make it Tuesday evening? Not to worry. This webcast will be repeated again a number of times over the next month or so. Taken from Brian’s blog post about it: “Elevate your skills with Windows Azure in this hands-on workshop! In ......
Posted On Monday, May 3, 2010 4:33 PM | Comments (1)
Windows Azure Training Kit (November 2010 Release Update)–Fantastic Azure training resource
At PDC 2010 in October Microsoft announced a number of new enhancements/features for Windows Azure. In case you missed it, these new enhancements/features have been released in the new Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio November release (v1.3). The Windows Azure team blog is an excellent resource for information about the new release. Along with the new release the Azure team has also updated the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. What is the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit you ask? It is ......
Posted On Wednesday, December 8, 2010 12:36 PM | Comments (0)
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