Month: July 2008

I had to be in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago now for some cross training and to meet my awesome development team in person for the first time. You have to love the freedom that the internet provides telecommuters. Thank you IM, email, remote desktop, ftp, and on and on. It just so happened that I found that David Yack, a Microsoft Regional Director and INETA Speaker, was presenting "Exploring the Entity Framework" to the San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group my first night in town. It was my first time actually seeing a presentation on the Entity Framework. … Continue reading David Yack will be presenting on Exploring the Entity Framework for the Tulsa SQL Server Group!

I felt compelled to blog about the presentation that our regional Microsoft MSDN Developer Evangelist – Zain Naboulsi gave tonight for the TulsaDevelopers.NET users group. Watch out Jason Townsend and the newly formed Bartlesville .NET User Group you are in store for an awesome presentation tomorrow at lunch! Zain did an awesome job of explaining LINQ in the easiest to understand way that I think I’ve ever heard it so far. Plus, squashed all reasons for not using it. He didn’t just stop at explaining it though. He really showed how we can take advantage of the tools provided by … Continue reading Zain Naboulsi rocked the house with LINQ Features in Visual Studio 2008!

Okay. I know. I know. I need to break these up and do blog more often. Being the VP of the INETA NORAM Speakers Bureau, running 4 user groups, planning 2 conferences per year, working a full time job, 4 kids and speaking at various conventions, you get the idea. So, I catch up when I can. After prepping and then speaking at Microsoft’s Developer TechEd 2008, I had a lot to catch up on at work. It having been my first time at TechEd it was definitely amazing. If you’re a developer and have never been to one, you … Continue reading TechEd 2008, 2008 MVP, Hyper-V RTM, Sharepoint-Vista!, Sitecore 6, INETA Community Awards and NEW INETA NORAM Speakers!