May 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 am
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The other day I mentioned the upcoming DallasCodeCamp. (Saturday, June 24th, 2006)
One of the things about CodeCamps is that they are community drive, so get over to the site and submit your session ideas! (Note: Requires Registration)
Even if you don't want to present, try volunteering for something.
Also, after you are registered on the site, make sure that you are confirmed to attend!
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May 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 am
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Are you working with Visual Studio 2005 for Team Systems? One of our local partners Notion Solutions will be leading several live webcasts coming up. (Seriously, these are the guys to go to with your VSTS questions and training - at one time 1/2 of the world's VSTS MVP's worked for them! - There were 4 VSTS MVP's in the world, at that time.
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The details are below:
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Date
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Time
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Event Title
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Event ID
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Webcast Duration
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7/13/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team System Demo
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1032300162
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150
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8/10/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team System Demo
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1032300163
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150
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9/7/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team System Demo
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1032300164
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150
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10/5/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team System Demo
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1032300165
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150
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11/2/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team System Demo
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1032300166
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150
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11/30/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team System Demo
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1032300167
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150
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7/27/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Install, and Configure
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1032300168
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90
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8/24/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Install, and Configure
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1032300169
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90
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9/21/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Install, and Configure
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1032300170
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90
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10/19/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Install, and Configure
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1032300171
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90
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11/16/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Install, and Configure
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1032300172
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90
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12/14/06
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2:00 CST
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Install, and Configure
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1032300173
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90
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May 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 am
(Microsoft)
ToaTalks.net launched a couple of months ago. This is the place where I post upcomming events and the power point slide decks after I give talks. TOA stands for Texas Oklahoma Arkansas. These are the three states (north TX) that I cover for Microsoft.
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May 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 am
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Reg Cheramy is one of the coolest people that I have met since joining Microsoft. We were introduced by my friend Rob Zelt at the Microsoft Mix’06 conference. Reg owns a web 2.0 company and famous blog; he is also building a Web 2.0 startup called ZigTag. At the Mix’06 conference, Reg was a stand out with his power point .05 demo (Luggage “Tag” shaped flash cards) and his luggage “tag” shaped business cards. Reg is not a Microsoft developer and he would not normally have attended a Microsoft event like Mix or the Microsoft Technology Summit that I was able to get him invited to later. These two events were pretty much a “first look” at the Microsoft Stack. I thought that his comments and observations were insightful and worth noting. It’s amazing how many J2EE and PHP developers that I run in to that have no idea how well the Microsoft platform fits there needs. (time to market, security, stability, scalability, cost savings, etc) Check out Reg’s comments.
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May 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 am
(Microsoft)
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The INETA .NET User Group in Boston is hosting a User Group Leadership Summit this June before TechEd. Rob is helping to organize and promote this event. I met Rob last year at the INETA Summit during TechEd 2005. That was an excellent event, this one should be even better!
You can register here: http://www.wedevelop.net/leadershipsummit.aspx
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May 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 am
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Dallas will have it's first CodeCamp in June! These are free community driven events. The emphasis on developer to developer interaction, lots of sessions and practical guidance.
Check out the official site to register and for the latest details.
http://www.DallasCodeCamp.com
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May 13th, 2006 at 6:00 am
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It's been almost 2 months since my last blog entry. Sorry about that. I have a growing list of “things to blog about later”. It seems that no matter what I do, there is never enough time to do everything, and time keeps moving forward - no matter what I do.
One of the things that happened in since last time - my 6 month mark at Microsoft past. That's not that big of a deal, but I thought that I would recognize it. There are a couple of things that I have learned about working for Microsoft in the last 6 months.
- You MUST be able to manager your self and your time. Honestly, this is an area that I continue to grow in. At Microsoft, you will never have enough time to finish everything that you *could* do. So you have to really pick and choose the critical items, and really work to be extremely efficient with you time. Also, learning what you need to do, is almost as important as learning what you need to say no to.
- Email on your cell phone it a life saver - if you use server side Outlook/Exchange email rules to organize certain email to folders. At Microsoft, you get *a lot* of email... no really, a ton. Think of the most email that you have ever received in one day, multiply that by 10... no bigger, a lot bigger. I can't believe all of the stuff that I can accomplish from my phone. True, the fact that it has a keyboard built in helps, Mobile 5 rocks, and the full outlook synchronization is nice too.
- People at Microsoft are passionate about Microsoft, our partners and our customers' success. I have been a fan of Microsoft technologies for a long time now. A couple of years ago, I started doing more with people at Microsoft... that was when I started to become a fan of Microsoft - not just the technologies. Now that I work here, I am a huge fan. It's incredible to see how far people to help other people succeed. It's refreshing.
- The best is yet to come... OK, I'm sure this is cliché by now (especially coming from a Microsoft guy.), but really... VSTS Rocks, TFS - Awesome; Vista is going to be mind blowing, Halo 3 will kick some serious bum (we -in my house- don't use the other word - doesn't bum sound nicer anyway) and I can't wait to see the final incarnation of the whole Expression Suite, not to mention Live, Atlas, Office 2007, and a dozen other products that are coming out in the next year that I'm sure I don't even know about!
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