ScottD's Musings

June 4 2007 - Talk @ OKCPRO.NET Developer's Group

2007-06-03T21:59:43Z

Thanks to the great team over at the Oklahoma City Developer's Group, for graciously inviting me to speak at their lunch and evening sessions on Monday, June 4, 2007. If you are located in or near Oklahoma City, please stop by! I'm delivering one of my favorite talks, "Building Middle Tier Solutions using Microsoft .NET". With this session, we will dive into how easy Visual Studio makes our lives by enabling the creation of Web Sites, Web Services, Serialization, MSMQ Integration, and WIndows Services...(read more)

FREE Videos for WPF & Expression Blend

2007-04-26T12:21:33Z

(Courtesy of Caleb Jenkins via Twitter through TelliTwitter . Thanks Caleb.) For those of you interested in Silverlight (WPF) and Microsoft's new Expression Blend design software , check out Lynda.com's new suite of introductory videos through the link below: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=359&ref=swf...(read more)

Dallas Code Camp Talk Today (4/21/2007)

2007-04-21T12:11:00Z

The Dallas/Ft. Worth community is holding the 2nd annual Dallas CodeCamp event today! The event will take place on the 4th floor of the LC1 building located at Microsoft's Las Colinas office. Registration starts at 8:30am. There are some great talks for this event, including C# 3.0, LINQ, Enterprise Library, Design Patterns, Client Development, Team System, SEO, Mono, Silverlight, and much more. Check out the agenda here . I will be presenting a PPT-Free session, "Building Middle Tier Solutions...(read more)

Test Post From BlogMailr.com

2006-11-08T01:22:03Z

We just launched a new product offering, www.blogmailr.com ! I created this blog entry by using blogmailr.com and sending an email from my Mobile Phone! W00t! Want the ultimate in flexability – by posting and responding to blogs through email? Please check out www.blogmailr.com . It works with ALL blogs that adhere to the MetaBlog API! Published with BlogMailr...(read more)

Scott Guthrie is coming to Dallas! Thu. 11/2/2006

2006-10-26T14:22:00Z

Rob Howard and Scott Guthrie beat me to the punch. The North Dallas .NET User Group is proud to announce that Microsoft General Manager Scott Guthrie is our presenter for our November meeting. We're looking forward to Scott's talk, as he's planning on spending 2 hours with us! He's planning on delivering a brand new ASP.NET Tips & Tricks talk, as well as LINQ and other various goodies! When: Thursday, November 2, 2006 - 6:00pm Where: Intuit, Inc. Headquarters ( Click Here for...(read more)

Scott Guthrie Posts Atlas Delivery Details

2006-09-12T16:37:00Z

For anyone who might have missed it... Yesterday, Scott Guthrie unveiled the details for Atlas v1.0. I'm very excited to see some of the details surrounding Orcas (rich debugging, Javascript intellisense, and designer support)...(read more)

What Are They Thinking?

2006-09-12T15:41:00Z

(non technology post...) From the category of "What in the world are the New York Islanders thinking..." New York Islanders sign goalie to record 15-year deal! New owner Charles Wang sure has made his mark in his short tenure with the team. He's fired Neil Smith months after hiring him, and even considered hiring sumo reslers for his goalie. Another good thread on Neil Smith's firing. An even better perspective from SI.COM. Great quote from SI.COM's Truth's & Rumors...(read more)

Middle Tier Solutions Presentation @ Dallas Code Camp - This Saturday

2006-06-21T13:30:00Z

Do you live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex, and want to learn more about .NET development? Then please join your fellow community members in the first Dallas Code Camp . When: June 24, 2006 at 9:00am Where: Microsoft’s Las Colinas campus, LC1 Building The Agenda will be announced soon, but here’s what I can tell you: There are 18 sessions total, 9 lecture talks and 9 chalk talks The event starts at 9am, with the first session kicking off at 9:30 Lunch will be served, compliments of Microsoft As...(read more)

Recent Web Finds

2006-05-27T05:13:00Z

Just wanted to share some interesting finds... Frans is stirring the pot again... This is dissapointing... " Web 2.0" owned by O'Reilly Raymond is at it again (blogging GREAT STUFF!) This time, he's shared some common Patterns Posters for us to decorate our cube/office walls with Fellow User Group Leader Jeffrey Palermo CORRECTLY defines TDD for MSDN Blogging Through Firefox - Nice Now that I finally ditched that BlackBerry for a VZ6700, I might want to pick up this new browser for Windows Mobile...(read more)

The Motorola Q Is Coming

2006-05-25T17:04:00Z

Looks like we're that much closer to the RazrBerry (aka BlackBerry killer) - the Motorola Q... ...(read more)