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One of the most exciting announcements from PDC was the news about C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. With all the excitement and discussion throughout the event about these new developer tools, we reached out to two experts in the fields. Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner sat down with Keith and Woody to answer some questions and discussed their new books on LINQ and C# . We also have a short talk with Jason McConnell of the Surface team. Listen to the Show Subscribe To The Show There are three ways to subscribe to our show...
Mark Mydland is the Principal Group Manager of the Visual Studio Team System Test Edition team (that means that all program managers, developers, and testers on VSTS Test in Redmond report up to him). He is touring through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee for a short time in November. Mark will be visiting companies during the day and speaking at user groups in the evenings. The user group talks are open to the public - this is a fabulous opportunity to speak directly with someone who created Visual Studio (and in fact runs the entire Test Edition...
I am on the first stop of the devLink bus on the way to the devLink Technical Conference. It will be a fun ride starting in Grand Rapids at 6:00PM tonight (8/20/08) and getting into Murfreesboro, TN at 9:30AM tomorrow morning. We will have drinks and snacks to keep people going as well as a lot of great conversations about technology, software development and all things geek. Along the way I also think we will watch a few movies. So for the long drive, I think we will have a great time. I am also bringing my video camera...
Date -- June 2, 2008
Time -- 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Place -- Bull's Head Tavern in downtown Grand Rapids
We will meet the first Monday of the month (if holiday second Monday) at a different local restaurant in or near downtown Grand Rapids.
The purpose of the Grand Rapids TechLunch is to get like minded business and technology influencers from Grand Rapids and Western Michigan together to meet, exchange ideas and maybe even create some new ventures that will help the region. There are 3 team members for the group: Joel Ross, Matt Davis and myself. We need more motivated and passionate...
I will be leaving this morning for a 2 day speaking tour in Wisconsin. I will be speaking to the Wisconsin .NET User Group in Milwaukee tonight March 11 and tomorrow night March 12 to the Chippewa Valley .NET User Group in Eau Claire. Both talks will cover ADO.NET Data Services (AKA Project Astoria) and the Semantic Web. I am looking forward to both and meeting all the great people in Wisconsin.
Brother Keith Elder is planning a Geek Dinner after the Detroit Visual Studio 2008/SQL Server 2008/windows Server 2008 Launch Event. The dinner will start at 6:00 PM. RSVP here. All are welcomed. When Date: March 18th Time: 6:00 PM Where Greektown, Detroit PizzaPapalis® 553 Monroe Street Detroit, MI 48226 Phone: 313-96...
Not that I forgot but here is Keith elder's great interview.CodeMash 2008 Interview with Keith Elder
Here is the next batch of interviews I did with some of the speakers, sponsors and attendees of CodeMash 2.0.0.8 CodeMash 2008 Interview with Bill WagnerCodeMash 2008 Interview with Brian GoetzCodeMash 2008 Interview with Jeff McWherter & Jay Wren The last interview with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Josh Holmes is the final interview and should be up later tonight. The first day of sessions and keynotes will be up tomorrow and/or this week. I have enjoyed getting these podcasts up and have had some good reviews. Thanks to all the people I interviewed who made me look so good. CodeMash Podcast...
CodeMash is over and if I wrote about all the things I did and people I met it would be like a book. It was one of those 2 days that you look back on and think it went by in 2 minutes. The days are now a blur but they were a fun and festive blur that gave me a new perspective on my career and started new passions that will last a long time. I will run down the many things I want to get out of my head and into yours! I saw many friends that...
To all the .NET developers out there that spend time and energy spreading their knowledge with the .NET community. SPEAK.NET is a group to discuss how we can better spread and teach best practices to the whole developer community. Come join the group if you speak at developer events, user groups, blog or write about development.
Dustin Campbell did a great job last night speaking on the topic of Functional C# to the West Michigan .NET User Group. I think it took most of us about 15 minutes to get the ideas he was trying to get across to sink in. While I see the beauty of the Delegates and Lambda expressions, I will not be pouring these into my projects so I do not get fired!! (Dustin's inside joke last night). Thanks Dustin for a great talk and also sharing a beer with us during the talk. Yes we meet at a facility that...
I am excited to be hosting the pre-event podcasts for the CodeMash event on January 10-11. The first podcast I hosted is an interview with Jim Holmes, President and Cofounder of CodeMash. Jim describes his role with CodeMash and how he was involved in founding this event. I also talk with Jim about the plans for the 2008 event, why developers of all types should attend CodeMash and what people should bring to this exciting event at the Kalahari Resort and Nia Center. The RSS feed for all CodeMash podcasts is here.