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Reflections on Executive Briefing: Natural User Interface and Social Media

Once again, we brought together a small group to discuss two more upcoming topics for the software industry. This time it was Natural User Interfaces and Social Media. The most interesting observation is that there is a bigger gap between the future-oriented...

Posted 25 June 2009 11:56 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, local interest, Software Engineering

Reflections on Executive Briefing Event: Cloud & RIA

Last Tuesday, we hosted our first executive briefing on upcoming technology trends.  The first two topics were Cloud Computing and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). We chose those topics because examples of RIA applications are already around, and...

Posted 19 June 2009 05:43 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, local interest, Software Engineering, Azure

Reflections on our Software Development Jam

Yesterday, we hosted a Software Development Jam at Automation Alley in Troy, MI (North suburbs of Detroit, MI for those readers not in the Michigan area). We billed the event as a way for developers to learn something about those software techniques that...

Posted 16 June 2009 03:28 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, Me, local interest, Software Engineering

Upcoming Event: MI Software Stimulus Lab

The software industry will be part of the underpinnings for the jobs of the future. (You can read more of my thoughts on the importance of Software to Michigan’s future here ). We created our company to create great software, and help others to do the...

Posted 18 May 2009 10:27 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, upcoming attractions, local interest

Is Inshoring a relevant strategy for Michigan’s Software Industry?

Dianne Marsh and I have been sharing time writing a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Business Review magazine.  This last month, I wrote about the trend for ‘inshoring’: Outsourcing software development from either coast to the midwest regions. Read...

Posted 16 December 2008 09:52 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, articles, local interest

CodeMash Session List posted

Holy wah. Dianne Marsh (who is on the speaker committee) posted the final list of the CodeMash 2009 sessions . Wow. She and Jason Gilmore did an incredible job somehow selecting 60 sessions from an incredibly rich pool of submissions. I'm rather proud...

Posted 13 November 2008 07:56 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: upcoming attractions, local interest

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

Ann Arbor PDC Keynote Viewing and Discussion

I would hope you are going to the PDC, but if you can't make it, we may have the next best thing: SRT Solutions is hosting a web viewing of the Ray Ozzie key note addresses (Monday and Tuesday) and a discussion around the talks. Space is limited,...

Posted 20 October 2008 12:02 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: upcoming attractions, local interest

Creating Readable LINQ

Keith Elder wrote a post a post asserting (or at least proposing) that a more imperative syntax for a problem is more readable than a LINQ based C# 3.0 version. (See here for his post). Well, that got my hackles up. Some days, my hackles get up before...

Posted 10 October 2008 12:40 AM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, C#, local interest, C# General

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

Link / News: University of Illinois gets funding to take parallel computing mainstream

My alma mater, The University of Illinois, just announced a joint venture with Microsoft, Intel, and the University of California at Berkeley which will enable commodity computer systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously in the exclusive...

Posted 19 March 2008 07:56 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Links, local interest

Announcement: C# / LINQ Minicamp taught by Richard Hale Shaw

We are now working with Richard Hale Shaw to deliver expert .NET training classes in Ann Arbor. The first of these is the one day C# / LINQ Minicamp hosted at SRT Solutions, taught by Richard Hale Shaw, on Friday March 14th. The cost breakdown encourages...

Posted 12 February 2008 10:37 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: upcoming attractions, local interest

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

MVP status renewed, RD status renewed

Yup, it's that time of year. My MVP award was renewed, as was my RD status. Both are prestigious awards that represent contributions to the technical community around various products. In addition, Patrick Steele, one of our senior consultants re...

Posted 03 January 2008 12:05 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: C#, .NET General, local interest, C# General