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I've finished my registration for PDC 2008. See you in Los Angeles. I'll be the one thinking about software

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...

I'm really looking forward to this. We're hosting a 4 day C# Jam April 8 -11, at our office. There's a lot that I like in the format: I'm co-instructing with Bruce Eckel and Jamie King, two of the smartest, insightful people in our industry. The attendance is limited to 30 people. (That...

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...

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/

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...

This is great news. The hard working speaker committee today confirmed that Scott Hanselman will be giving one of the keynotes at CodeMash in January 2008. ( www.codemash.org ). That's beginning to build quite the history and commitment. Last year, Scott Guthrie came, and this year Scott Hanselman...

This year, I've had two sessions accepted for Code Mash: Real World C# 3.0 Now that the release of Visual Studio 2008 is imminent, it’s time to look at how these new features will make you more productive. New toys are great, but this session will teach you how these new features can help you be...

Dianne discusses this at length here, but I want to make sure than anyone subscribing to my blog but not hers knows about it as well. One of our goals in having physical office space was to facilitate the growth of technical people in our area. One way that we intend to do that is to host Lightning Talk...

ADO.NET Entity Framework Talk This is a must-see. Julie Lerman has been diving into the ADO.NET Entity Framework for quite some time, and she knows as much about it as anyone outside of Redmond. Here's the abstract: The Entity Framework is the core of Microsoft's evolving data platform and has...