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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 requests for software. The good news is that means...

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 realm of super computers. You can read more...

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 early signup: $350 Early Bird Registration, due...

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, Scott Hanselman chooses just the right phrases...

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 the agenda, and discuss some of the other...

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-joins the MVP ranks . Totally cool.

At some level, we all spend a little time over the holidays thinking about something other than code. At least, I hope so. I'm happy to live in an area that has four seasons, even though there are times when that's a hassle. You see, Dianne and I started SRT Solutions right around the turn of...

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/

Dustin Campbell blogged about his new daughter the other day. The good news: She's already more cute than Dustin. She was born 5 weeks early, and that got me to thinking. Were dual cores involved? How'd you get that kind of performance?

If this keeps up, I'll actually be Super Excited (tm). Right after CodeMash, we're hosting a Rich Internet Applications Jam, covering Adobe Flex and Silverlight. James Ward and Bruce Eckel will be there to help attendees learn as much as they can about Flex. Josh Holmes will be doing the same...