Recent/Upcoming Presentations

Last week, I was at Desert Code Camp, giving a “Deep Learning Basics” presentation. It was a good time speaking with other developers, sharing what I could, and answering questions. If you haven’t heard anyone who speaks or teaches say this, the preparation makes you learn more about a subject than you might not have

Speaking at New Mexico .NET User Group

On Thursday, 4/2/09, I’ll be speaking at the New Mexico .NET User Group.  It will be one of my favorite topics, Practical LINQ.  They’ll be giving away a copy of my latest book, LINQ Programming, too.  If you can make it, stop by, say "Hi!", and we’ll have a great time talking about LINQ and

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta

The Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta is a *free* conference that includes sessions in the areas of Windows, SQL Server, and .NET.  It will be held in downtown Denver on Feb 21st.  I’m scheduled to present a session titled "LINQ to Twitter: Building a Custom LINQ Provider", but there are many more sessions all day by

Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta

  The Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-fecta needs you, speakers and attendees.  Please pass along this call to others.  Blog about it.  Send me a link to your blog post and you’ll go into a special drawing for a cool giveaway.  (keep reading, even if you’re not local, good excuse to come to a beautiful place

Find your voting location

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Forbes: Toppling Linux

This is a little bit old, but I was doing some catching up on my reading and found this Forbes article, Toppling Linux, that is pretty interesting.  According to this article, Richard Stallman, is "is waging a new crusade that could end up toppling the revolution he helped create".  I’ve never been totally comfortable with

Southern Colorado Speaking

I have a couple speaking engagements coming up in Southern Colorado:   10/3/06 – Southern Colorado .NET Users Group – Topic:  LINQ   10/7/06 – SoCol Code Camp – Topic:  Visual Studio 2005 Productivity Tips and Tricks

Presentation at the Denver VS.NET User Group

On August 28th, I’ll be speaking for the Denver Visual Studio .NET User Group.  The subject is Language Integrated Query (LINQ), a future feature of .NET that will be added to both C# v3.0 and VB.  As you might guess, I’ll be speaking from the C# perspective.  I’ll also be giving away one free Mayo Software

TechEd06

Next week, I’ll be at TechEd.  Most of the time, I’ll be working in the Technical Learning Center (TLC) as a Technical Learning Guide.  Here’s some tips for what’s happening at the TLC:   1.  TLG’s like me are generalists who know a little about a lot of different things and sometimes specialize in a

Motivation by Insult

Dale Preston blogged about helping people in newsgroups and public forums in his post "Motivation by Insult".  I think he is correct in some ways that MVPs should be helpful and constructive in the news groups and public forums, which is not always the case.  I admit to being short with people sometimes, which has