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...

Like probably many MVP's who get re-assessed this time of year, this post is an announcement of me being re-awarded MVP status for another year. Big thanks to everyone who helped me get it but special thanks to Microsoft (obviously), my company, readify and also a friend and colleague who actually helps...

I recently gave a presentation @ the local user group ( .NET BC users group http://www.netbc.ca ) on Javascript essentials for the ASP.NET Developer. I would like to thank Medhat Elmasry for the opportunity to speak to his fine group. ---- Here are the event details: Date & Time: Wednesday, 2007...

With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because it still...

Nice little addition to my morning... Dear Rob Chartier, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary...