I wanted to make sure and draw attention to the effort that Brandon King in Harrison, Arkansas has given towards promoting this event. There are some major giveaways, and we will be arranging a carpool from Springdale to drive the 1:30 to give a good showing from the NWA DNUG crew. Details: Who: CLAUDIO LASSALA What: Details at http://odnug.org When: April 2nd 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM Where: North Arkansas College (Center Campus - Durand Center - Old Regions Bank Building), Harrison, AR Grand Prize Inspiron...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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:...

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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...

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I wanted to thank David Silverlight for doing a wonderful service to the programming community. For my involvement in the world wide programmer community, I was awarded the 6th place prize of a "Chuck" TV show T-shirt that says "My Entire Life" on a 3.5" floppy disk. David created Community-Credit.com with the sole purpose of awarding "Stupid Prizes to Smart People". You are awarded points for helping the programmer community out, and at the end of the month whomever hast the most points are awarded...

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In my last post about joining the geekswithblogs community, I mentioned the Community Credit folks. The wonderful thing about the GeeksWithBlogs is that it automatically submits blog postings for community credit. I had originally thought I wasn't going to bother with it, after all who wants to enter in everything you do into their webform. But since I only have to add manual things like organizing events and attending user groups, it makes it much easier. I'm also working with David Silverlight...

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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/...

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