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I’m proud to announce that episode two of Community Radio has been published to http://live.ineta.org/audio In this episode, Steve talks with Heather Kostes, Emily Freet, and Nicole Moser about their roles at Microsoft, the MVP program, MVP benefits,...
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As reported all over the web this week, Microsoft has decided to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer. For a long time, the EU has been complaining that Microsoft has been using their dominant position to hawk IE on unsuspecting computer...
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I’m proud to announce that the inaugural episode of Community Radio has been published: http://live.ineta.org/audio In this inaugural episode, I talk with Richard, Carl and Sara about Speaker Idol, speaking at Tech-Ed, podcasting, .NET Rocks, Richard...
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The contest deadline has come and gone, and I received four submissions. After reviewing the submission I have determined that they were all great, so whoever sends me $500 first… just kidding. I’ve decided that the only satisfactory course of action...
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I think most folks know that I tend to speak at developer events from time to time. Actually in 2008 I gave 48 presentations at 32 events. My goal for 2009 is 52 events and I have 44 confirmed so far. Next year though I thought I’d take it up another...
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I started recording episodes of Community Radio at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Since coming back home, I’ve been hard at work editing these episodes and creating the intro/outro music. There is still one element missing however...
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I’ve been working on a Windows Forms based project recently, and I quickly became frustrated at how unwieldy it became after just a short while. I have also been working a lot with the ASP.NET MVC framework recently, and I thought this model might work...
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Registration is now open for this four hour course taking place on May 29th, 2009 at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in Malvern, PA. ASP.NET MVC is a free and fully supported Microsoft framework for building web applications that use a model-view...
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Tech·Ed this week was tons of fun and an amazing experience! I worked several booths, interacted and networked with a large number of my peers, and enjoyed almost every moment. Needless to say I was thoroughly exhausted when I got home. One of the highlights...
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While at Tech·Ed this week I had several opportunities to sit down with Sara Ford , including for my new Community Radio podcast. Along the way, I learned a few new tips and tidbits of knowledge about Visual Studio. Cycle Clipboard Ring If you’re like...
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Want to be famous-er? Give back knowledge? Geek out with your peers? You should do an INETA Live webcast! One of my initiatives as Director of Technology for INETA is to further develop INETA Live . Details on INETA Live can be found below: What is INETA...
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One of my initiatives as Director of Technology for INETA is to further develop INETA Live . To that end, Rachel Appel and I will be hosting five exciting live webcasts this month on Live Meeting, all from INETA speakers. Details below, and remember to...
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One of my near-term goals is to start up a community-focused podcast. Until I get hardware funding however, I’ve decided to start with blogcasts. For this episode, I’m having a conversation with some folks about community events and after-parties via...
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This past weekend I went down to Raleigh, NC for my first INETA Board Meeting. Never a fan of being cooped up in a conference room, I had slight apprehensions about nicotine and caffeine withdrawls and the like. Rather, it turned out to be a very engaging...
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On Tuesday, INETA NORAM (the International .NET Association, North America) announced the results of their Board of Directors elections. INETA’s mission is to offer assistance and resources to community groups that promote and educate their membership...
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A couple weeks ago, I became engaged with some folks on Twitter about their specific complaints about MSTest. I received five complaints, some of which I sent off to Microsoft. I’d like to share the answers and Microsoft’s response in hopes of creating...
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Twitter is quite the rage these days, so I thought I'd compile a list of all the Visual Studio and Team System influentials. Here you go: General Info @MicrosoftVSTS Product Teams @JasonBarile Jason Barile Principal Test Manager for Team Foundation...
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In a previous post , I outlined the generics-based Repository model I built for DevEvents . There are two additional pieces of extensibility to the model that I left out for the sake of clarity. The first one, and the one I’ll cover in this post, is LINQ...
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In my last post, I showed how I used an HtmlHelper to create an enumerable-based dropdown. In this post, I’ll share a few more HtmlHelpers I’ve created to make life easier, or the user experience better. There are places in DevEvents , like the directory...
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I have a few enumerations in DevEvents , and I found myself frequently writing code similar to the following: Dictionary < string , int > etlist = new Dictionary < string , int >(); etlist.Add( "Code Camp" , ( int ) EventType .CodeCamp...
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I was notified last week that I have been selected as an INETA NORAM speaker! I am quite honored, and excited to be a part of such a great team. Being New Years and all, I thought I would set a goal this year. Last year, I gave 48 presentations at 32...
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I like quotes, and those of you who follow me on Twitter see me post them from time to time. I've decided, in part due to an open request from Phil Haack for an inspirational quote, to catalog a few of my favorite quotes here: "Nothing will ever...
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So I finally caved into pressure and am writing this post from Windows Live Writer. After some hassle with the install on Win2K8 (thanks to @ninob for pointing me here ), I set about to write my first post. I do what I normally do; open the program and...
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Let it be said that I strongly dislike code duplication. For that matter, I also strongly dislike repetitive typing. Yet as I started to build out DevEvents, I found myself frequently duplicating similar code across object repositories, and typing the...
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Heartland Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg blogged today about his quick launch bar and the apps he has positioned there. He also encouraged others to do the same, I'd imagine out of pure curiosity. Here is mine, broken up because I run at 1900x1200...