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As most of you know, Microsoft gives MVP awardees access to some great benefits. I’ll admit, this is the first time I’ve used it to have access to something fun and non-work related. While I only had the opportunity to play it twice (it’s just hard to find the time to play games), the new Age of Empires Online game is quite interesting. I was able to play it during it’s Alpha stage, and it’s now hit the closed Beta stage, which we’ve been encouraged to invite people to apply for. http://www.ageofempiresonli... ......
http://www.microsoft.com/vi... Finally, I can blog about this interesting piece of technology from Microsoft. For beginner to intermediate developers (1-4 years), this piece of technology will WOW you. I’ll admit, how can you not be impressed by pointing to a database, saying “alakazam”, click a couple of buttons, and blammo, you have your own application! But after having been around the block a few times, I’m actually a little critical of this tool (which is rare). We’ve ......
I made a mental note from earlier in the year. Microsoft literally buys computers by the truckload. From what I understand, it’s a typical practice amongst large software vendors. You plug a few wires in, you test it, and you instantly have mega tera tera flops (don’t hold me to that number). Microsoft has been trying to plug away at their cloud services (named Azure). Which, for the layman, means Microsoft runs your software on their computers, and as demand increases you can allocate more computing ......
The Back Story: As a Microsoft MVP awardee, one of the many benefits is free software, books, and various products. Some of the producers/manufacturers ask for reviews in exchange, others just ask for a brief mention (nothing is ever really free). But considering that some of the products are essential to my everyday computing, I never mind mentioning their names and evangelizing their products. One of these tools just happened to save me a countless number of hours. With the release of Microsoft’s ......
I’m proud to announce that two Microsoft employees, Sarika Calla and Kevin Halverson, who works on the Visual Studio Product Team will be visiting various User Groups and Companies in Arkansas and Texas! Bios: Sarika Calla – Speaking about a Woman’s perspective at Microsoft, this natively born Indian holds a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has been with Microsoft for the past 8 years. Sarika is now a Team Lead on the IDE Team. (pic is Redmond sacalla mthumb.jpg) Kevin Halverson ......
While it’s still a full month away, I’m getting super excited about my upcoming trips. May and June are chock full of events, two of which I’ll have full announcements for within the week. In mid May I’ll be driving to Dallas to take my 2nd trip to Korea (the bulgogi part). Seeing a bunch of old friends from my first trip as well as taking a week for some deeper personal things. While in my absence, June 1st-4th, I’ve setup a tour across Arkansas and Texas for two Microsoft employees who work on ......
The catch? Attend the Ozarks .Net User Group meeting on April 1st. Here’s a list of the other prizes for the event GRAND PRIZE 1 - iPad (Wi-Fi 16GB) THIRD PARTY COMPONENTS 6 - Telerik Premium Collection 5 - Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET 1 - Nevron Chart for .NET Lite DevExpress Xceed PRODUCTIVITY 2 - CodeRush with Refactor! Pro 2 - ReSharper CodeSmith GAMES 3 - Halo3 ODST (XBox 360) 3 - Forza Motorsport (Xbox 360) OTHER SOFTWARE 3 - Windows 7 Ultimate 2 - Microsoft Office Standard 2007 HARDWARE ......
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I suppose sometimes when one’s personal life gets busy, there are some things that fall by the wayside. So what all has happened since I last blogged? Business has been good with lots of lessons learned. I had hoped I would have had an important announcement several months ago concerning the business I own, but that simply hasn’t materialized yet. Will keep everyone posted. Ensuring your business has a good sales pipeline and stays ahead in the technology curve ......
The following is Steve Ballmer’s recent letter to CEOs titled ‘The New Efficiency’. In all the talk about the economy, one term that comes up more and more frequently is something called "the new normal." I like this phrase because it speaks to the fact that economic reality has undergone a fundamental shift over the course of the past 12 months. So what is the nature of this shift? After years of economic expansion fueled by unrealistic rates of consumption and unsustainable levels of private debt, ......
Fair warning, I’m combining several blog posts into one. As a father, there’s nothing that makes you more proud than to see your son take his first steps, say daddy for the first time, or catch his first ball. In my professional career I’m extremely proud of the accomplishments my peers have been making. These are the people I’ve been working with and helping their professional community efforts, and while I like to think I helped them in some way, truth be told, they entirely did the work on their ......
This is an open invitation to join us in helping form the Northwest Arkansas Technology Council. The discussion for the inaugural meeting will center on who and what we are and the beginning phases of our purpose. If you feel you have something to contribute to our pioneering efforts, or know of someone who can, please consider joining us, or forward the following information on. Thanks, Randy Walker You are invited to participate in the formation meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Technology Council ......
Scott Spradlin, one of most influential people I know in the world of Microsoft programming, has gone way too long without being recognized. I remember having talked with Scott on many occasions about user groups and Ineta. He’s been one of those long time influentials, mostly behind the scenes, serving in various roles with INETA and being the glue that helped connect St. Louis developers together. Scott served as the Regional Mentor for INETA for many years, helping several user groups get started. ......
Jan 29 – Holiday Party @ Fast Lanes, Lowell, Arkansas Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group Feb 7 – Kansas City Office Geeks (SharePoint Saturday) Daniel Larson Feb 12 – Little Rock .Net Users Group Keith Elder of Deep Fried Bytes Mar 1-4 – Microsoft MVP Summit Mar 18-20 – Mix ‘09 April 2 – Ozarks .Net User Group Claudio Lassala May 11-15 – TechEd 2009 ......
Just received an e-mail that as of Nov 23, 2008 (below), Microsoft will no longer be marketing Windows Live OneCare. It’s unknown what that means, other than them closing the affiliate program (where marketers get paid if you install it). It is unreasonable that they will discontinue the product, since they have just launched Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Live OneCare Server. I’m wondering if the marketing department that was contracted, was fired. Windows Live OneCare to Close November ......
I love it when someone else writes up my blog postings for me! Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups. By joining BizSpark, Startups get: o Software: fast and easy access to Microsoft’s current full-featured development tools, platform technologies, and production licenses of server products for immediate use in developing and bringing to market innovative and interoperable solutions with no upfront costs and minimal requirements. Startups ......
I occasionally receive letters sent out to the Industry Executives from the top dogs at Microsoft. Here’s the one I just received outlining their newest initiative called Windows Azure, which was just announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. During the past decade, a dramatic transformation in the world of information technology has been taking shape. It's a transformation that will change the way we experience the world and share our experiences with others. It's a transformation ......
Please join me in Tulsa on October 9th & 10th for the annual Tulsa TechFest event! I’ve had several people ask me about when I’ll be doing my Small Business talk again, which will be on Oct 9th at 1pm. If you are interested in starting your own software business, you won’t want to miss this! Here’s a brief synopsis: Join Randy Walker, owner of an ISV, as he leads an interactive discussion on his successes and failures of running a software business. We will discuss what’s needed to start a software ......
One of the most interesting things about being a software developer is to see the entire undercurrent and subculture of the industry. It really makes it more visible at the local geek gatherings, regional and national conferences. This year I felt extremely fortunate to have been offered an opportunity to speak and help at the Nashville / Murfreesboro devLink conference. I honestly hadn't intended on going due to the 9 hour travel required, but when my good friend John Kellar reached out, how could ......
As promised, here is the link to download the Presentation from my Starting and Running your own Software Business session at devLink in Nashville / Murfreesboro Tennessee 10% off Xheo Licensing: AHCO1008 Licensing and Obfuscation RingCentral.com Virtual PBX Phone System RentACoder Where I outsource software development E-Lance Where I outsource graphic development Microsoft Partner Program You can follow me at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn ......
For those that weren't able to attend last Tuesday's Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting, 8/5/2008, Zach Young (our Vice President of the group) was able to secure Jeffrey Palermo as a speaker for a special meeting this Thursday (8/14/2008). This is a huge boon, as Jeff is one of THE most sought after speakers in North America. Jeff is most known for the Party with Palermo series of events before each of the major conferences. Jeff hails from Austin, Texas, which was recently named the hardest ......
It's always an honor to be asked to speak at an event. Fortunately John Kellar who chairs the Nashville devLink event hasn't heard about my reputation, lol. One of the many things I'm passionate about is software startups. Since I haven't had a chance to talk about this subject in a while, I'm really looking forward to it. If you have ever thought of or intend to start your own software business, then please attend. I guarantee it'll be one of the most engaging talks you've experienced. Here's a ......
August 22-23 For those that don't know, devLink in Nashville is one of the best (if not THE best) community driven conferences out there. I'm super excited to have been invited by John Kellar to host a couple of the Open Spaces sessions. If you haven't gotten a chance to know John, he's a super guy and is helping to put on other conferences as well. So while devLink may be sold out this year, be sure to sign up early next year! At $50 this year, what a steal to get in to see the top speakers in the ......
Exactly two months ago Microsoft sent me an email introducing it's new branding called "Microsoft Advertising" (note that the page is presently erroring out). Personally I think the new branding is a step forward, as I never cared for "AdCenter". But the really interesting parts of the e-mail was the brief mention to a host of products I've never heard about. As with their ongoing issues, let us see if Microsoft can get the execution right. Atlas is their rich media advertising. I'm guessing this ......
Surprisingly enough, Chris Love wins the Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher. I calculated the winner by counting the total number of entries first. http://GeeksWithBlogs.net/r... comments first, then http://www.MySoftwareStartu... comments next. I then visited http://random.org and asked for the winning comment number. A screen capture of the winning randomly generated number is above ......
Over the past year, Microsoft has broadly touted their partnership with NBC and the video feeds they will provide for the Olympics. So on July 4th, I sat back and while watching their TV broadcast and went over to their website http://www.nbcolympics.com. The first thing you may notice upon visiting the website, is that their homepage is lackluster and that they are using the same drab Adobe Flash photo view. So where's the cool new Microsoft Silverlight technology? Hopefully the following will be ......
You might want to skip this first paragraph if you are just looking for the RegEx Tools portion. I still find it amazing how the web can create an online social inner-networking that bobs and weaves an amazing web of connections (confused? me too). Here's what led me to find these wonderful RegEx tools. So the Microsoft Partner Program has an initiative that gave me a bunch of certifications vouchers. I am using at least 1, possibly 2, in my giveaway. I send out an email to the VB Insider's List ......
I've recently come into several Certification Exam Vouchers and have decided to host a giveaway. Just post a comment to the blog, and I'll randomly select a winner. All entries must be in by June 30th, 2008. You can also post a comment to my cross posting site on MySoftwareStartup to gain an additional entry. Due to the amount of comments, I will wait to display them all until after the contest. Technorati Tags: Microsoft Certification ......
The following is a response to the forum question posted here. I had the opportunity to meet Scott while at the Little Rock .Net User Group, and we talked briefly about my thoughts on how to take advantage of the programs available to software startups. In particular Scott owns a consulting business and he's having growing pains. Scott's problems is very typical of thousands of small business consultant shops. He's busy being the business owner, full time consultant/programmer, bookkeeper, marketing, ......
A big heartfelt thank you and congratulations to two of the developer community builders in the Northwest Arkansas area, Jay Smith and Michael Paladino with special mention to Zach Young. As a Microsoft MVP, one of our benefits this year, is the ability to award people with a special prize. This prize is an MSDN Premium account with Visual Studio Team Suite, which includes nearly all of Microsoft's business software, free of charge. Jay Smith works for Tyson Foods, Inc. where he is a PMO Architect ......
It was this time last year at TechEd that Cory Smith introduced me to the Visual Basic product team. He first introduced me to Ed Hickey, who is the VB MVP Lead at Microsoft. The funny story about Ed is, less than a week after Ed awarded me the MVP status, he transfers out. I knew I was hard to work with, but didn't realize I was .... that .... difficult. Also last year at TechEd 2007, Cory let me hang out with him at Universal Studios where I rubbed elbows with the Visual Basic product team! He's ......
I suppose I was naive in thinking that once I received my Microsoft MVP award, I could breathe a bit. But we've had sooo much Developer Community activity, I haven't had a chance to breathe, much less blog. I still haven't had an opportunity to blog about the MVP Summit! Needless to say, the MVP Summit was a blast (other than having a digestive track illness, where I missed the last day's keynotes). The best thing about the Summit was the ability to meet and talk directly with the product teams. ......
While I love Microsoft's developer products, adCenter (Microsoft's search advertising / pay per click) makes me want to hide in shame. See the email I received below. I completely understand the desire of AdCenter to educate the masses, but do you really need a Workshop to get your customers to understand your product? Much less, require them to PAY to attend? Sure you might be giving a 50% credit towards advertising, but why would I pay to attend? That's not the way to get customers to move from ......
Ok, so my announcement is 6 days late. I'm proud to announce that I received the coveted Microsoft MVP award for Visual Basic (currently the only MVP in Arkansas). I'd first like to thank the Academy ... oh wait wrong speech again. Actually I would like to thank the following people for their help and encouragement. My apologies in advance if I neglected to mention you. Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group - a great bunch that has been an exciting group to get to know and share with Travis Doyle - ......
After presenting at the Tulsa SQL Server SIG I received the following question: According to all the blogs if you install SSRS on a web server it still burns up another SQL server license even if you don’t install SQL. Our production SQL server costs like $30,000 for the enterprise version because it’s on an 8 core box. The SharePoint server where I am trying to install SSRS also has 8 cores. For SharePoint you have to install SSRS on the web server or it will not work. Is there a cheap version of ......
Summary: This white paper presents general information, best practices, and tips for designing charts within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports. It provides an overview of some Reporting Services features, answers common chart design and feature questions, and includes advanced examples of how to design better charts. (32 printed pages) Click here to download the associated sample code, GetMoreChartsSamples.exe. Click here to download the Word version of the article, MoreSSRSCharts.doc. ......
If you're interested in joining Microsoft's beta program for games, you'll be interested in the following email I received. We are gearing up for a year of great betas. To prepare for these upcoming betas we have a new survey on the beta website. Please follow this link to access the new survey: (link removed). We will be using this new survey to select participants for our betas. If you do not complete this new survey, you will not be able to participate! But don't worry, the survey is quick and ......
I found this nugget of a tool today. I haven't tried it out yet, but it sounds like one terrific tool. http://www.microsoft.com/do... The SQL Server Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 and can issue alerts for configuration problems. Availability and performance monitoring is done using synthetic transactions. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts ......
For those interested in hearing me speak (or avoiding me altogether ;) I will be speaking at the Tulsa SQL Server Group on March 17th, 2008 and at the Little Rock TechExpo on March 27th, 2008. Tulsa SQL Server Group March 17th, 2008 Location: Oklahoma State University( OSU - Tulsa ) 6:30 - 6:45 Announcements 6:45 - 7:30 Presentation - Peers & Special Guests! 7:30 - 7:45 Drawings and Door Prizes 8:30 - ? Club Pub Little Rock TechExpo 2008 March 27th, 2008 Location: University of Arkansas at Little ......
Participate in Live, Virtual, or Hosted Events I received this today via e-mail. You will eventually be able to watch the keynote and other speakers at the official west coast launch. The Silverlight app is definitely more feature rich than many of the other Silverlight websites I've seen so far. It's extremely interesting that you can create a "backpack" of videos. Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Silverlight ......
As of March 1st, 2008 Microsoft will force you to use the new way to access your MSDN subscription. This is terrific news! Since I have 3 people access MSDN from remote locations (out of my 5 user license), we've all had to sign into MSDN from a common Live id. Microsoft is now requiring you to setup in the Partner management website 3 different technical contacts. Once you setup those 3 different technical contacts (https://partners.microsoft... they can ......
I received an e-mail (copied below) about Microsoft ending the paid referrals to new subscribers of adCenter. I find this extremely perplexing because of Google's dominance in this area, plus Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!. The number one reason for Microsoft to buy Yahoo! is so it can merge the two online advertising programs. So why kill the one program that helps encourage people to use their online advertising? At least this program encouraged me to list it and recommend it, whereas I never would ......
I live just miles from the Wal-Mart headquarters. Half the people I know live and breathe Wal-Mart. I sell software to the vendors that hawk their wares at Wally World. So it's not a surprise to me that Wal-Mart dealt the final destructive blow to HD-DVD and Toshiba. Today Toshiba announced the disbandment of HD-DVD, marking a close to the format wars. http://www.reuters.com/arti... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... An "I toldja so" may be in poor taste, but months ago I ......
Great video by Will DePalo on how to securely communicate by digitally signing xml messages. Originally found on MSDN. How Do I: Add Security to Visual Basic and Visual C# Applications with Digital Signatures? Join Will DePalo as he shows you how to tighten security on your XML documents built with Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# by verifying digital signatures. Presented by Will DePalo on January 29, 2008 Length: 20 minutes 19 seconds Video Downloads: ZIP | WMV | iPod | MP4 | 3GP | Zune| PSP Audio ......
This video will show you how to add Silverlight capabilities to your website. It first shows you via notepad and then via Microsoft Expression Blend software, which was explicitly developed to make Silverlight applications. Video: Introduction to Silverlight ......
Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft released a free PowerToy for VS2008. The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor. Technorati Tags: .Net,Visual Studio 2008 ......
Microsoft is on their 2nd Small Business Show which features "Solutions for Entrepreneurs". You can view the show here. I thought it was interesting that up in the top left Microsoft tells you to Install Silverlight (competitor to Adobe Flash). Yet if you notice at the bottom of the popup menu, the show is displayed in Flash. Hopefully they'll rectify that soon ......
Here are some more FREE Partner Partner Training Labs: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Virtual Training (6 parts) What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Database Administrators Implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 Working with the New DATE Data Type in SQL Server 2008 Administering Servers by Using Declarative Management Framework (DMF) Policies Learn How to Build Occasionally Connected Applications Authoring Reports Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Microsoft Visual Studio ......
Microsoft is offering the following free webinars for Microsoft Partners: Web Seminar 1: Web Development on the Microsoft Platform – Feb 11th at 10am PT Web Seminar 2: Architecting Web Applications – Feb 12th at 10am PT Web Seminar 3: Windows Live Services and Silverlight 2.0 – Feb 13th at 10am PT Web Seminar 4: Designer/Developer Collaboration – Feb 14th at 10am PT Web Seminar 1: Expression Suite (Overview) – Feb 18th at 9am PT Web Seminar 2: Expression Design – Feb 19th at 9am PT Web Seminar 3: ......
I've often complained at the number of initiatives and incentives Microsoft's Partner Program gives. However it looks like they are cleaning it up just a tiny bit. Microsoft is putting $10 behind their Big Easy Offer program. Essentially if you upsell or cross-sell licensing you can benefit from it. Basically Microsoft will send your customer a check, with your company's name on it. The article I read didn't explain it in great detail, but it appears that it might make things more simple by aggregating ......
I was able to meet last week and help the new group who is trying to form a .Net User Group in Fort Smith. I will post more information as I find it. If you are interested in attending, learning about, or helping form the new FSDNUG, please contact one of the following people: Michael Paladino - mpaladino (remove) @ (remove) goeagleone.com Kerry Jenkins - kerry_jenkins (remove) @ (remove) data-tronics.com Jeremy Sloan - sloan (remove) @ (remove) data-tronics.com They tentatively have the following ......
We've scheduled the next MSDN Express event to take place on February 27th, from 1pm-5pm. Zain Naboulsi (our MSDN Evangelist) will be presenting topics TBA. Location will be at the New Horizons office in Rogers. Sponsored by NWA DNUG, New Horizons, Microsoft Technorati Tags: Northwest Arkansas,Microsoft,MSDN,MSDN Express ......
It's hard to believe that the Sysinternals group at Microsoft are on their 9.02 version. For those that didn't know, Sysinternals used to be it's own company, until Microsoft recognized how important they were and bought them out. I hadn't ever heard of the AutoRuns application until today. The jest of the application is to list every Automatically ran application during bootup. You can then disable and remove them all. It is extremely detailed and even includes the list of applications when you ......
This past weekend seems like a dream. That's probably because it was a sleep deprived coding marathon of epic proportions. Some getting more sleep than others. Of course it didn't help that I didn't get much sleep the night before we left. The We Are Microsoft event was to help non profits with their development and website needs. To hear some of the podcasts given by the GeeksWithBlogs.net crew, visit http://geekswithblogs.net/j... You can view pictures of the event at http://www.flickr.com/photo... ......
I'm impressed by the fact that they used Silverlight to highlight Bill Gates keynote and Microsoft at CES. Note that the intro is a bit long before they actually let him speak. If you'll notice at the bottom, they included all of the tags for their products they are highlighting. The only logo I questioned was Microsoft Office. How in the world is Office linked to entertainment? I think my favorite bit was about Microsoft Bob http://www.microsoft.com/ces/ Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Bill Gates,CES ......
Please come join us at the Charity event "We Are Microsoft". Throughout the weekend, starting this Friday, we will be working on charity software development. Right now Mark Leon Watson and I will be working on Irving.Net web project, and I'm looking forward to working with someone whom I've only ever met online. If you live in the Northwest Arkansas area, there will be four of us going, and I'm betting we could find more room to carpool if you are interested. We will be leaving sometime Friday morning ......
As I've mentioned countless number of times, one of the best benefits of the Partner Program is training. In this case it's free training. Two days full of instructor led training for free, however right now it's only in 3 cities. Topics covered: IIS 7 PowerShell and MMC 3.0 Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) - one of the more interesting topics rarely heard about WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) or WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation) Dates are as follows: (whomever in ......
Just received information that details the changes of the Microsoft Satisfaction Index. This was one of the easiest ways to buildup Partner points and also receive information from your customers via survey. It's been a while since I've used it, but I recall the points being much higher. You can view information about the program at the following website: https://microsoft.prognosti... Note that you must be a Microsoft Partner in order to view the information. ......
This was originally posted at http://www.mysoftwarestartu... on 12/16/2007 Just as with Windows Vista logo program, Microsoft is either giving away free certifications or reducing the price on their Logo certifications for Windows Server 2008. This time, they are calling it their Innovate on Windows Server initiative. If you want your application tested for FREE, you must be one of the first 300 to submit by February 2008 and part of the ISV Microsoft Partner program (note that VeriSign will charge ......
I was very pleasantly surprised when I got this popup while looking for some Vista Power Tools. Low and behold, it does actually use it, however I didn't see anything impressive about their implementation. You can access the beta by using the following URL. http://www.microsoft.com/be... ......
The MSDN Flash e-Newsletter has been updated with a reorganization of the way it is laid out. One of the most surprising things was a familiar mug at the top of the page featuring Zain Naboulsi, our MSDN and X-Box Evangelist for our area. Congratz on the feature Zain! It was terrific seeing the User Group section being second on the list, which will hopefully drive more people to attending our events. You can register for the newsletter here ......
While doing my normal routine and checking out Facebook this morning, I happened to come across the What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You? Quiz. Of course I had to take it, even though I was somewhat worried it would tell me "You have no entrepreneurial skills, get out now!" Fortunately, I received the attached picture telling me I was a "Natural Born CEO". Well the whole purpose of this posting was to tell you about Intuit's new initiative for startup companies. You can download their free Simple Start ......
As part of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Certification program, the Microsoft Partner Program is offering $150 credit to the first 5000 partners who sign up. You can find out more here: https://microsoft.mrmpslc.c... Note that it requires $5 to sign up. Supposedly you can also receive $75 credit for signing up for the Microsoft Referral Program and $100 for each customer you sign up. I'll talk more about this in a follow up blog ......
On December 4th, the first inaugural MSDN Express event was a resounding success. We had around 17 in attendance and learned a lot about some of Microsoft's new technologies. A big thank you goes out to Zain Naboulsi, our MSDN Developer Evangelist. Zain, on his own initiative is helping put Northwest Arkansas on the roadmap for Microsoft's Evangelism team. It's been a long time coming that our region has seen some focus and the ability to draw in such high level talent. A big thanks to Jay Smith ......
I received this in the Microsoft Partner e-Newsletter: Save 50% on a Partner Telesales Service Campaign Are you a Gold or Certified ISV partner with an application that runs on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or with a security, management, or virtualization solution, running on the latest commercially available version of Microsoft products? If so, we have a great opportunity for you save 50 percent off of the regular list price of $8,600 for a Partner Telesales service campaign. This special, limited ......
Microsoft has again offered their Second Shot program. They do it pretty often so keep an eye out. The details of the program are to register on their website before taking your exam. Once you take the exam, should you fail, you can take the exam again for free. http://www.microsoft.com/le... ......
The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management. http://www.microsoft.com/ ......
With the help of Chris Koenig blog site, I was finally able to track down the link and information on how to submit a speaking proposal to TechEd 2008. You may register using the following link, however you must contact me to get the code. https://2008.msteched.com/cft/ You will need the following information in order to submit a topic: Conference (Developers or IT Professionals) Submitter Information (Name, Email, Company, URL, Title, Country) and Background Speaker Information and Background Topic ......