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Code and Slides for State of Michigan Developer Briefing

Yesterday, a number of community leaders and Microsoft employees gave a series of presentations for developers working for the State of MI. We spent the better part of the day discussing the current and future trends for developers on the .NET framework...

Posted 19 March 2009 10:21 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups, C# General

Mark Mydland (VS Test Edition Principal Group Manager) coming to AADND

  We’ve got a great treat for Ann Arbor .NET this week.  Mark Mydland, from the Visual Studio Test edition, is coming through our region to speak at a variety of user groups.  (Thanks to Jennifer Marsman for setting this up). It promises...

Posted 10 November 2008 12:07 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups, upcoming attractions, local interest

Developer Challenge: Sign up for GiveCamp Ann Arbor

OK, here's the deal: Those of us working on organizing the Ann Arbor Give Camp have been reaching out to charities for the past month or so. There's good news, and a challenge. We've had more than 35 local and regional charities respond with...

Posted 09 June 2008 10:46 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups, local interest

CodeMash Podcasts are Live

Chris Woodruf did quite a few interviews during CodeMash last week. They've started to go live. You can see the list of the latest podcasts here He's got interview with Sara Ford , Dustin Campbell , Michael Rozlog , Keith Elder , Me, Brian Goetz...

Posted 16 January 2008 09:10 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups, Me

My CodeMash Recap

The advantage of writing my recap of CodeMash a little later is that I can start by pointing at one everyone else has written. To begin, Jim Holmes shows the strain of organizing CodeMash. After a break, he discusses what happened at CodeMash. As is usual...

Posted 14 January 2008 10:17 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups, local interest

My CodeMash Agenda

As I finish my talk preparation for CodeMash, I'm putting together my schedule. You can view the silverlight page here: http://codemash.org/sessionscheduler/?1=2&2=28&3=4&4=7&5=3&7=42&8=14 However, that doesn't let me annotate...

Posted 04 January 2008 11:13 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, User Groups, C#, upcoming attractions, local interest, C# General

Another link post: MI Flex Group

The Michigan Flex User Group has scored a Flex 3 RoadShow for February 6th. You wil oin Kevin Hoyt to learn about Flex 3. More here: http://www.theflexgroup.org/

Posted 17 December 2007 10:42 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups, upcoming attractions, local interest

User Group: Steven Smith in Ann Arbor on 11/14

Steve blogs about it here: http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/archive/2007/11/02/Speaking-in-Ann-Arbor-November-14th.aspx . He'll be up in Ann Arbor, discussing ASP.NET caching and performance. I'm on a couple email lists with Steven and I know...

Posted 02 November 2007 03:56 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, User Groups, local interest

User Group: Michigan Interactive Designers Meeting

A friend passed along this announcement about the Michigan Interactive Designers meeting. The group is interested in discussing topics relating to developing engaging user interactions using leading edge UI tools. (And, Bombadil's has great coffee...

Posted 19 September 2007 11:46 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups

New Location for Ann Arbor .NET Developers Meetings

Since SRT Solutions has opened our own office (with user group meeting space in mind), AADND is moving its meeting space. Starting in September, AADND will meet at 206 S. Fifth St, suite 200. Same city: Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Here's a link to the new...

Posted 31 August 2007 10:48 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, User Groups

Addressing the .NET skills gap in your user group

Julia Lerman proposed a solution that our group has been using for months. We've liked it. Julia Lerman wrote about coping with the widening gap between .NET Newbies and .NET Pros. She mentioned the concept of a pre-meeting presentation that was geared...

Posted 31 March 2005 02:33 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: User Groups