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May 12, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:20 PM/EST

Tech Ed Fun & Learning - Live or online

I'm not (just noticed that typo!! It was supposed to be "now") at Tech Ed in Los Angeles where I will be presenting two Entity Framework sessions this week. Even though it's obvious that the economy has had an impact...

March 23, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009 2:07 PM/EST

Warsaw, Poland's .NET Community

Last weekend I participated in (read: presented at) the C2C conference in Warsaw, Poland. It always amazes me that these smallish conferences are eager and able to find funding to bring speakers in, not only from outside the community, but...

February 11, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:48 PM/EST

Fact Checking

By nature I am not very meticulous which is not such a good trait for a programmer. On the other hand that trait goes hand in hand with a lack of patience for repetitive tasks, ala ADD/ADHD, which is quite...

January 22, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:33 PM/EST

The Microsoft Layoffs & O'Reilly, too

Last week, O'Reilly Media laid off 30 employees )(nearly 15% of their total staff), including the very experienced and talented editor, John Osborn. John was the editor for my book and not only held my hand throughout the arduous process...

December 31, 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:22 PM/EST

Looking around at the Multi-Touch technology

I was meandering around the web today, beginning with watching some videos of the awesome work that Interknowlogy has been doing with the Surface computer. I was curious to see if they (and Surface computing) were the brains behind CNN's...

December 29, 2008

Monday, December 29, 2008 2:18 PM/EST

Microsoft bridges the generation gap

Last week, my husband and I spent part of the holidays with his family. On this side of the family I have 3 teenage neices and a teenage nephew. I've known them all for about 10 years but never really...

December 17, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:02 PM/EST

Community Megaphone - To discover or promote MS Technology Community Events

Are you familiar with Community Megaphone? I ignored it when I was first told about it (sorry about that, Rachel!) because I thought "Uggh, yet another place I have to re-enter my user group meeting info." But I was hanging...

December 5, 2008

Friday, December 05, 2008 7:34 PM/EST

iPhone Game Developers are Making it Rich...What about XNA Studio and the Zune?

Last month, CNN had a story about Steve Demeter's smash hit iPhone puzzle game, Trism: Developer Strikes it rich with iPhone game. The story focused on how Apple enables developers to create games for the iPhone and that Demeter's success,...

November 9, 2008

Sunday, November 09, 2008 9:27 AM/EST

Microsoft BizSpark Program for Software Startups

This is a little hard to believe so I read it twice and yes it's true, Microsoft is giving away development tools for production use to software startups. I'm packing up to head off to the DevConnections conference in a...

October 29, 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:40 AM/EST

Not at PDC? Live meetings just for you (and recorded PDC content)

I made my plans for the Microsoft PDC conference (happening right now in Los Angeles) early this summer but late last week, I realized I needed to cancel so that I could work on my book. So with a heavy...

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