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Advertisement : SharePoint 2007 Training by Sahil in Europe and United States ( more information ). August 26th, 7:00PM - 9:00PM Ladies and Gentlemen, mark your calendars – you probably don’t want to miss this. I intend on making this talk extra special with sprig of lemon on top. Next month, on August 26th, I will be presenting at the Caparea.net user group. Now, caparea.net is a pretty well established user group – I personally have had a relationship with them for many years now. In fact, that user group was the place I delivered my first public speaking gig. Read full article .... Read More...

In just a couple of weeks I'll be in Durban, South Africa presenting three sessions at Tech Ed . These are the sessions: WEB304: Introduction to MVC Web Development Day: Monday, 04 August 2008, 09:15 - 10:30 Location: Session Room 07 One of the benefits of using a MVC methodology is that it helps enforce a clean separation of concerns between the models, views, and controllers within an application. In the very near future, ASP.NET will include support for developing Web applications using an MVC-based architecture. The MVC pattern can also help enable red/green test-driven development (TDD) where you implement automated unit tests, which define and verify the requirements of new code, before you actually write the code itself. Join us for...

I recently posted that everyone should read The Dip and I try to follow Seth's advice pretty closely.  The current "dip" I'm slugging through is organizing CodeStock - which means I have to "quit" or ignore many other things to focus on getting through this dip.  Less time spent playing with new .Net toys, which leads to less blogging and less speaking. One thing I'm slightly jealous about having to pass on is helping in the Ann Arbor Give Camp .  Tim Rayburn first told me about give camp's last year at the Memphis Day of .Net, and ever since then I've wanted to be part of one (or more).  I am however glad to see Nathan Blevins jump in and assemble a remote team so that Knoxville developer's...

Last week I just got back my summaries of attendee feedback for my three talks at DevConnections in Orlando in April (yes, they're not quite as efficient as TechEd ). I blogged about them and posted the slides and demos 2 months ago, but I'm finding it useful to also blog about the comments and feedback that I received on them, as a means of helping me to improve my future talks and, I hope, as a way of showing that I actually do read and care about what attendees say on the evals. For my talk on What's New in ASP.NET 3.5 there were 59 evals turned in. The overall evaluation for the talk was a 3.39 which was slightly below the average of 3.46. An astonishing 50% of the evals claimed the technical level of the talk was too complex...

I'll be presenting at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group this evening at 6pm. The talk will be a slightly modified version of my Black Belt ASP.NET Performance talk that I gave earlier this month at Tech Ed in Orlando. According to their web site, the user group will also be giving away a Zune to one of the attendees of tonight's meeting (and I have a book and some shirts, too...), so if nothing else, you can come for the free stuff. The main topics covered in this talk are performance testing with load testing tools, caching, and asynchronous programming. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

The Ha recently wrote about his desire to get away from NorthWind and perhaps start some community driven effort to come up with something else , mainly, it seemed to me, for the sake of being something else . I must humbly disagree with this, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here. The first stated requirement for NotNorthWind is this: Complex enough to be called Real World but simple enough that someone could "get it" in 5-10 minutes That alone is enough for me, as a presenter, to suggest that perhaps this is not a good idea. I'm a big fan of packing as much content into my presentations as possible. I like to move quickly and fill up the audience's brain as much as possible with all the great and wonderful things...

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Next week (and the week after) at Tech Ed, several experienced speakers will compete with one another in Speaker Idol, held at the Tech Ed Online stage during lunch time and hosted by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell . The winner gets a guaranteed speaker slot at next year's Tech Ed. Each contestant gets to give a 5-minute presentation to a crowd of attendees and several judges, and after each presentation, the judges give their opinion and tips for improvement. After each heat, one finalist is selected, and all of the finalists compete the last day of the conference for the title. Last year this was a lot of fun, and it's a great way to learn a little bit about a variety of topics or to get some tips you can use for your own presentations...

Here is a link to download the content I used for my quick talk at EnergizeIT Toronto ("Pimp my IDE" aka customize Visual Studio 2008): The blog post I showed: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx You can also check this one: http://idehotornot.ning.com/ Read More...

This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ To SQL data exposed by a WCF service with VS2008. I would like to thank Paul Laberge for offering me the opportunity to do my very first presentation in english... Here are the links to the online demos I showed: DeepZoom: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com Performances comparison with DHTML/Flex/SL1.0/SL2: http://www.bubblemark.com Free charts controls: http://www.visifire.com Medical sample (amazing) application: http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator...