I'm completing final preparations for my trip to Barcelona next week for the annual Microsoft TechEd (EMEA) event. I'll be there from Sunday through Thursday and am giving the following presentation Mashups and Windows Live - Not Just for Browsers (WIN203) 6 November 2007 Start: 15:15 Finish: 16:30 Although...

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single view into the blogs of all of these technical...

Yesterday's major developer event for Microsoft developers, Microsoft Developer Academy , was a great success. Over 2,000 developers attended the event, which offered a choice of 25 different breakout sessions, plus another 6 panel discussions. I sat in on several sessions, and was very impressed...

Back in December, I had a great time chatting with Mark Baker on as they interviewed my for a series on Upgrading to VB.NET that they were doing for their .DevNet .NET podcast series. The interview is posted in approximately 15-minute chunks and the first 2 segments are already posted on CMP Media sites...

The recording of my appearance on .NET Rocks! is now available for download . I really had a fun time, talking about the early days of VB, the future of VB, and some other stuff in between. All this, during what was for me 1:30 to 3:00 AM ! We all had a good time, but didn't get to cover even half of...

In an earlier post last month, I threw out a teaser about a special guest appearance, in addition to my scheduled TechEd and VSLive shows. Well, the cat is out of the bag - I'll be the guest of the week on the next edition of Dot Net Rocks ! I am looking forward to doing my part to make it an informative...

I got back this week from VSLive! Toronto , where I did 3 different presentations. They all went very well, although the session on business object data binding in VS 2005 (while a great topic) had some challenges in terms of getting the demos to work with build of VS that I had. Of course, that was...

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics as well.

On Monday night I was the guest speaker at the Seattle .NET Developers VB User Group meeting. This is a group run by Robert Green of the VB team and meets monthly on the Microsoft campus. Robert had asked me to come and speak next time I was in town - so there I was ! My talk was on ADO.NET, along the...

I'll be spending the last 2 weeks of August out in Redmond and I am starting it off by doing the main presentation at the Seattle .NET Developers Association VB meeting on August 23 (at the Microsoft campus). Here are the details: http://www.netda.net/Event/EventNewsletter.asp?EventDate=8/23/2004 ADO...