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I received THE email this morning from my MVP Lead: “Dear Albert Pascual, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way to say thank you for promoting the spirit of community and improving people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. We appreciate your extraordinary efforts in ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year.(…)” Being an MVP allows you to be part of a great, intelligent group of people as well as tap on resources that otherwise you would never have access to. I believe last year I was able to learn more than any year previously. This year I am committed to take this award to its limits again. Help the .NET community as well as improve myself and the...

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I've compressed them all to 800 x 600, if you'd like a larger file, please feel free to email me, and include the 800 x 600 version so I know which to pick. http://www.flickr.com/photos/26369281@N04/ Read More...

Remix , is heading downunder and registrations are now open. You can register here .This event is especially cool for the many people who did not get a chance to attend the actual Mix event in the United States (which is many of us). Dates and locations are: Sydney May 20 Powerhouse Museum Harris Street, Ultimo Melbourne May 22 Melbourne Town Hall Cnr Swanston & Collins Street, Melbourne There will be heaps of quality technical content from a bunch of local technical rockstars , and I will be attending and participating as an expert in one of the "Ask the Experts" areas. Look forward to seeing you there! Oh, by the way, each attendee receives a copy of Expression Studio 2 (rrp$1040) for free when they register! Read More...

At the MVP Summit, Canadian MVPs carried valuable hockey pucks. It was an unannounced, "viral" contest where attendees who collected a full set of pucks won a genuine, Canadian Olympic Team hockey jersey. At lunch at the closing day Japanese MVP Takako Sakurai was still hunting for one last puck. Unfortunately, the winning pucks - and the contest jerseys - were all gone. I couldn't stand to see her go back to Japan without the Canadian jersey she tried so hard to win, so I peeled off mine (you can...( read more ) Read More...

What a day! I just had lunch with Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack. Scott open a great discussion to engage everybody in the table. Now I know why he gets the big bucks. Then they got up and start presenting ASP.NET MVC. Both were MVPs before going to work for the big blue mother ship. I don't think they are talking about anything that is not public knowledge, in any case, I'll avoid posting about it in favor of caution. Follow me at twitter http://twitter.com/alpascual Cheers Al Read More...

It's 6 AM and I found myself the last 2 years working in a project that we were talking on the ASP.NET MVP "table" last night. A hole in Twitter when people were trying to find me. Geo Twitter. I purchased the domain and I'll be working in adding a MAP to twitter so you can attach your message. So yesterday you could find me in 3 places: Explore the map here. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100163154003251361320.00044ae8feb5b8e66b095&z=17 Now I'll have to write the web interface for Geo Twitter and start thinking about the iPhone and other portable devices. Your ideas are welcome. Cheers Al Read More...

First day was busier than I thought, met lots of familiar names from the ASP.NET and Microsoft. Great day, I saw the people from Telligent 3 times on the Westin lobby! ASP.NET MVPS Having dinner with Darrell ASP.NET MVP and moderator. Big dinner for Microsoft. Seattle lights. See you all tomorrow. I'll be at my twitter! http://twitter.com/alpascual Read More...

Finally I am here at Sunny Seattle. Never been to Seattle when there is sunshine, please let me know if anybody sees any. You must take a picture to prove it. I don't think the streets of Seattle have seen the sun. I created a twitter account so you can find me around the conference/campus. http://twitter.com/alpascual Also you can call me at 951-751-5951. I'll be staying at the Westin Hotel and I'll spend time in the bar there ;-) Already seen familiar faces. See you soon. Cheers Al Read More...

So, Mix has started. I must say I’m very jealous. I even found myself looking enviously at a picture of the contents of the goody bag earlier....I must get a life. Anyway... Work has started on our MVP migration. Even I was struggling to keep a smile on my face. It’s not the passive view per se that’s caused me pain today, it’s the unit and spec tests that go alongside it. As we’re not doing the whole enterprise app straight away, there’s still lots left structured the ‘old way’. So much pain was caused trying to get the ‘new’ and the ‘old’ to sit alongside easily. The way we have decided to do it, is to start with the new pages first. Any new screens will use passive view. We will ‘upgrade’ the others as we go. With the addition of a new project...