Developing UX

This is just a quick note that I’ll be presenting at two different events in the DFW area this month. Hope you can make it!

North Dallas .NET Users Group – March 3rd

First, Wednesday March 3rd, I’ll be at the North Dallas .NET Users Group talking about Model View View-Models (MVVM) for your Silverlight Applications. If you’ve ever seen my Dependency Injection for Silverlight talk, this is pretty much the follow up to that. (above is a snapshot from the last time that I spoke there.)

Technically Speaking DFW – March 27

Have you ever wanted to be a technical presenter, but you weren’t sure how to get started? Or do you want to take your technical presentation skills to the “next level”? This this is the event for you! I love the idea of events like this, and I was honored to be invited to participate. Maybe this will spark more interest in groups like Presenter Mentor?

Teresa Burger, awesome community member and talented developer over at Woot! is organizing this event. It’s $50 to attend, includes lunch, and is a full day of Dave Gunby, Microsoft’s Chris Koenig, MVP extraordinaire Tim Rayburn and also yours truly.

Register for both!

• Register for the North Dallas DNUG – Wednesday March 3rd (Free)
• Register for Technically Speaking DFW – Saturday March 27 ($50)

Yep, this is going to be a fun month! Hope to see you there!

This week I will be at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle, while I’m there I will take the time to present at the local .NET User Group. If you are in the area be sure to stop by. It’s going to be a “double feature” between my “Developing Loosely Coupled Applications” talk and my friend, and fellow MVP, Dennis Bottjer will be giving his amazing talk on SharePoint Performance. It’s gonna be awesome!

I always like going up to the North Dallas DNUG. The first (pilot) CommunityCast.tv episode was shot there… and the last time that I was there Jason Alexander showed of Graffiti before Telligent had it released (CommunityCast episode 6).

Side Note: I just realized that Jason updates his blog less than I update  CommunityCast.   – go follow his twitter instead

Tonight I’ll be talking about Microsoft Silverlight, specifically some of the Data Binding and Visual Template features. This is a fun talk, but there is a lot to cover! We’ll start with data binding to business objects and then move to creating visual templates with Microsoft Expression Blend. I’ll also bring my camera so be prepared to chat about what you are doing later in the night!

If you’re in the Dallas area, be sure to stop by and check it out!

Tomorrow night I’ll be presenting at the Ft. Lauderdale .NET User Group on Silverlight. Specifically, I’ll be covering the process and techniques for creating visual templates as well as some of the in’s and out’s of binding to data and creating data templates.

again… big thanks to INETA for sponsoring this event and for supporting .NET communities all over the world!

It should be a great night, if you’re in the area.. be sure to stop by and say hi!

I’ll be speaking at the South Colorado .NET User Group tonight. If you’re in the area make sure and stop by! We’re going to be covering a LOT of Silverlight content. I’m looking forward to it!

You can get all of the meeting details and RSVP here.

See you then!

One of the great things about speaking for INETA is traveling to places that I’ve never been before. July is going to be a little different for me. I was born in Southern California and grew up just an hour north of San Diego in a town called Temecula. (Except for 3 years when I lived in Okinawa)

We moved from Murrieta to Tulsa in 2001 and I haven’t been back to California since then. It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 7 years! Aside from the people and family that are in California there are only 3 things that I really miss. So I’m really looking forward to meeting up with my Dad and having a good lunch while I’m there.

If you are going to be in the San Diego area in July… make sure to stop by the .NET User Group and say hi! We might even go grab a bite to eat afterwards… if I used to know you in Southern California… send me an email: blogger[at]calebjenkins[dot]com.

The topic is still TBD, but it will probably be one of these:

• ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008
• Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 + Expression Blend
• Developer Designer Zen (bringing two world’s together)
• Better Application Design with practical loose coupling

What would you want the topic to be?

Just a quick note: I’ll be speaking at the Spokane .NET User Group tomorrow night covering ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008.

This will be my first time in Spokane ever. I’m planning on driving over to see Lake Coeur D’Alene while I’m there too. I’ve heard so many nice thing about this area that I’m really looking forward to the couple of hours that I’ll be out there.

OK, I have to get up in 3 hours to make my *early* flight (a super, super early flight! ugh.. )

Anyways, if you’re in the area… stop by the User Group and say hi!

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On Thursday, March 6^th 2008, I’ll be presenting at the .NET Users Group in Tallahassee, FL. We’re going be covering working with ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008. If you’re in the area stop by and say hi!

Register here so that they know that you’re coming!

See you then!

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Tomorrow, Jan 22, 2008 – I’ll be presenting on Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend at the Lubbock .NET Users Group. If you go to Texas Tech, or are in the area come on out for it!

See you there! 

Update: Here are the slides from the talk. Enjoy!

I’ll be at the Tulsa .NET Users Group tonight! Speaking on .NET 3.5… coincidence that Visual Studio 2008 RTM‘d the same day? Most likely.

If you join us… don’t expect me to be on the RTM version of Visual Studio yet. I’m using Visual Studio 2008 (beta 2) + Expression Blend 2 (sept. preview) + Expression Design SP1 + Silverlight 1.1 (alpha) + Silverlight 1.1 SDK (alpha) + Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

It’s that last one that keeps me from updating Visual Studio before tonight. I’ll have to test / or wait for the Silverlight Alpha tools (since this will be an add-on for Visual Studio) to upgrade to the Visual Studio 2008 RTM.

I learned a long time ago to not change my demo machine the day of a presentation… but that doesn’t mean that it’s still very tempting to see if it would all work!

Join us tonight: http://www.tulsadnug.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=107
See you then!