I'm proud to announce the second coming of the Iowa Code Camp. This sequence follows the amazingly successful event held in Iowa City of May of this year. Nearly 200 people attended for 90% of the event, we gave away upwards of $20,000 dollars in prizes and software and had a generally great time talking...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12 nd to 14 th , right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11 th . This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of...

Here are my highlighted blog posts of interest in January 2008: Announcements MVP in 2008 Microsoft Regional Director (2008-2009) Videos Handling Errors in Silverlight 1.0 Troubleshooting Techniques for Silverlight 1.0 Reviews Snagit by TechSmith eWallet by Iliumsoft Windows Meeting Space by Microsoft