Since 1999, I haved looked forward to attending and speaking at the annual TechEd EMEA at the beginning of July. It normally took place either in Barcelona or Amsterdam - both fun places to visit. Well, the format of the show is being changed and moved to November. The official announcement is here ...

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...

On December 12, we had official Israel VS 2005 launch event in Tel Aviv. It was a great, fun event, with over 1300 attendees ! I did 2 different presentations. The first was one of the main sessions for the general assembly, entitles ".NET 2.0 Things you must know about". I thought it would be interesting...

With Microsoft's new approach of "openness", publicly releasing frequent technology previews, betas, and interim builds (CTPs - Community Technology Previews), it takes alot of time (and dis space!) to keep abreast of it all. In fact, everyone should really evaluate if and when it makes sense to stay...

Good news for those of you missed me over the past 3 months (less significant for those of you who didn't notice that I was gone... :-) ). It is pretty much 3 months to the day since my last blog posting. Fortunately, all has been well - really well in fact. I have just been SO overwhelmed with work...

Do you want the opportunity to work with Brad McCabe ? Brad is a MSDN Content Strategist, responsible for the VB and Data Access Dev Centers (and probably some others). He is part of the team responsible for much of the content on MSDN. If you like writing and explaining technology the position of a...

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...

The June meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group meeting will be held on June 1, 2005: 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly 18:00 - 18:10 Introduction 18:10 - 19:15 “ASP.NET Tips and Tricks - Part 1” Leon Langleyben , SRL Group 19:15 - 19:30 Break 19:30 – 19:45 "Hatzilu !" Open session, with questions and answers...

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...

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.