I gave a presentation on Atlas to the Central Ohio .NET User Group last night. About 50 people were in attendance and I thought the presentation went pretty well, especially considering it was my first time presention on this subject. I’ve posted my slides and samples on the ASPAlliance Resource...

Here’s a list of a bunch of webcasts that are coming up in the next few months (starting next week), related to ASP.NET: Date Title Speaker Registration URL 25-Jul ASP.NET: An Overview of ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation Integration Kashif Alam Click here 3-Aug ASP.NET: Building Real-World Web...

I’ll be speaking to the Cleveland .NET SIG tomorrow night about .NET Caching Best Practices, my current (and somewhat longstanding) favorite topic. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello. The details: Next Meeting: .NET Caching Best Practices Presented by Steve Smith - Founder ASPAlliance...

I love TechSmith - they have some extremely cool tools including my favorite, Camtasia, which is the de facto standard for creating screencasts and coding/presentation videos (like the Atlas videos now on ASPAlliance.com). I finally got a chance to meet up with TechSmith Chief Evangelist Betsy Weber...

Scott Guthrie presented on Atlas and BLINQ this afternoon at TechEd. The latest Atlas bits seem to be coming along very nicely, allowing standard ASP.NET controls to be decorated with functionality without the need to replace or modify the original controls. One nice concequence of this “add on”...

I haven’t posted in a bit, so let me summarize what I’ve been doing the last few days, apart from going to various parties and staying out late. Monday I went to several Regional Director connect meetings with various Microsoft teams – didn’t make it to any sessions. I spent about...

Roy blogs about his decks and demos available for download at the Tech Ed Israel 2006 site. If you are like me and can’t stand sitting and waiting for Tech Ed Europe 2006 to start, you’ll just have to download the Israel content right here . Since most of the content is in English anyway.

Hans Verbeeck mentioned the developer track owners and their blogs. Start the dialog with these guys and tell them your thoughts to make this event even better. Beat Schwegler (architecture, connected systems) Chad Hower (base framework) David Boschmans (web development track) Gerd De Bruycker (overall...

Just got back from the Dutch Developer Days 2006 (after a ridiculous 3+ hour drive). Yesterday I missed the keynote (traffic again) so I started out with attending to Edwin Jongsma’s session on Implementing Domain Specific Languages. Edwin explained horizontal DSL’s by demonstrating the class designer...

This week l've attended to a software architecture workshop held in Cortina, Italy. This year’s workshop was hosted by Andrea Provaglio (The Negotiator) who took over from Jimmy Nilsson (The Aggregator) who organized the first workshop in Malmö, Sweden and second in Lillehammer, Norway. We've discussed...