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JavaFX, Microsoft Surface, and TDD talks this week

The Ann Arbor area is ripe with events this week (apologies to our spouses). Join up with fellow coders tonight at NSCoderNight , at Sweetwaters in Kerrytown. Tomorrow night (Wednesday April 15), you will...

Posted 14 April 2009 11:24 AM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, .NET, Ann Arbor, user group, Southfield, Michigan, JavaFX Script, events

Julie Lerman tonight in Lansing

In case you missed her in Southfield ... INETA Speaker Julie Lerman is still in the area, speaking on ADO.NET Entity Framework at GLUGNet tonight in Lansing. Bill went out to Southfield to hear her talk...

Posted 19 July 2007 06:14 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, Michigan, ADO.NET, Julie Lerman, GLUGNET, Lansing, Entity Framework, LINQ

BarCamp Grand Rapids

July 20-21 Carlus Henry let me know that BarCamp Grand Rapids is being held this weekend. It definitely looks like a good time. Even if you can't make it to the BarCamp, the site has some great links...

Posted 18 July 2007 05:12 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Open Spaces, Michigan, Carlus Henry, Grand Rapids, barcamp

Detroit Java User Group Meeting Tonight!

Farmington Hills Community Library at 6:45 pm This just in ... the Detroit Java User Group (which meets periodically, just not every month), is meeting tonight. Paul Drallos will be talking about using...

Posted 17 July 2007 09:09 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, Michigan, Paul Drallos, Detroit JUG, metro Detroit, Java 3D, Farmington Hills, Detroit

Events, podcasts, etc.

It's not just Art Fair this week Yes, it's Art Fair week. Townies know to avoid driving into Ann Arbor unless they're actually GOING to Art Fair. I have a meeting on Wednesday, so I'm riding...

Posted 17 July 2007 04:31 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, podcast, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Java Posse, Scala, ADO.NET, Great Lakes Area .NET User Group, Art Fairs, Julie Lerman, GLUGNET, GANG, Greater Lansing Area .NET User Group, Software Engineering

MTU/IBM offer summer workshop for High School Women

Deadline to apply is May 30! IBM Sponsored Summer Program in Computing for High School Women at Michigan Technological University Do you know any high school women who are interested in computing? IBM...

Posted 29 May 2007 05:28 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: women, Michigan, IBM, workshop, computing, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, scholarship, youth, MTU

Kathy Sierra, Jake Baker, and online threats

Here’s a link to the interview on CNN that included both Kathy Sierra (one of my favorite bloggers) and Chris Locke (one of the bloggers mentioned in her post as being involved with the meankids...

Posted 02 April 2007 09:02 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Kathy Sierra, Michigan, Creating Passionate Users, victim, Jake Baker, intimidation, blogging, 1995

Sun Project Blackbox Tour

Tour coming to Southfield tomorrow! I first heard about the “ datacenter in a shipping container ” on the Java Posse . Today, I got an email from a local friend that Sun is doing a tour of...

Posted 19 March 2007 04:50 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Sun, Southfield, Michigan, Java Posse, datacenter, blackbox

Python User Group Meeting Summary

Python User Group Meeting Summary Tuesday, October 3, 2006 The Ann Arbor Python User Group usually meets on the first Thursday of every month, but Titus Brown was in town this week, so the meeting was...

Posted 07 October 2006 12:03 AM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Python, Ann Arbor, Jason Pellerin, Twill, Nose, wxPython, Titus Brown, Michigan, Bruce Webber, wxWindows, wxWidgets, Selenium, scotch

Josh goes to Microsoft

Josh Holmes , a partner in SRT Solutions, has decided to take a position at Microsoft. He is the Architect Evangelist for the heartland region. It’s always rough to lose a business partner, but if...

Posted 03 October 2006 09:11 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, Heartland, SRT Solutions, Dianne Marsh, Josh Holmes, Southfield, Michigan, Architect, Evangelist, Bill Wagner