September 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am
(CommunityCast Events, Design and UX, Improving, Speaking, Technology)
Each year this event get’s bigger AND better. Last year included a sponsored night out to the Tulsa OctoberFest that was a lot of fun. Big props go to David Walker and the Tulsa Developers.NET group for putting this whole thing together.
I received an email from a friend recently that said something like
Saw you were doing a talk on loose coupling at TTF. Same time as [another talk]. I’m not sure which to pick.
Are you going to lay down the typical Caleb awesomeness, making your session the right choice?
Emphasis added. My response
Well when you put it that way… no, I’m only planning on doing a boring, lame presentation. 
This is one of my favorite talks… I’m telling the story Dependency Injection and IoC through allegory “The Heroic Tale of DI and IoC”. Then showing some high level code examples of Ninject in Silverlight, Castle in WinForms and …
So yeah… come to my session. 
(but I can guarantee none of this so called "awesomeness" that was spoken of… my sessions will probably be dull and boring ;)
Here are my sessions:
- Better Application Design with practical loose coupling
- Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 + Expression Blend
- Developer Designer Zen (Bringing these two worlds together)
- Silverlight 2 : Data & Visual Templates
In addition to that, there are going to be a ton of sessions to choose from and an amazing group of presenters, including an incredible closing keynote by Improving’s own Jef Newsom.
While you’re at it… check out last year’s wrap up from CommunityCast.tv!
All photos are from last year’s TulsaTechFest courtesy Giovanni Galluci
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September 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am
(CommunityCast Events, Design and UX, Microsoft, Speaking, Technology)
As Chris, Zain and Denny already pointed out, XAML Fest is coming to Houston.
What is XAMLFest? From Denny’s post:
<XamlFest />is a free two day seminar being hosted around the country to help show that XAML and WPF are not overwhelming or even particularly hard. If you live in the central part of the US, you can attend <XamlFest /> in Houston, Texas
What will I be doing there?
The organizers asked me to come present on the "Role of the Integrator"… basically I’ll be talking about the interactions between developers and designers in the XAML / WPF / Silverlight world. This will be similar to the Developer Designer Zen talk that I did for XTrain and Adobe.tv.
Mostly though, I’m looking forward to hearing from the other presenters and meeting with folks from across the region that are doing WPF/Silverlight work.
If you are attending be sure to say hi!
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September 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
(CommunityCast Events, Improving, Speaking, Technology)
In case you were planning on heading down to Houston for the TechFest tomorrow… you should know that there’s a huge hurricane going on down there right now. 
From the site:
Campus will be closed which means that the TechFest is postponed, we will try to have reschedle but not until 2009 at the soonest. Thank you all for being part of the Houston TechFest.
This is disappointing, but understandable (considering that most of Houston is currently under evacuation orders).
I know what you’re asking yourself… "great, what am I going to do now!"
ahem..
Sign up for the TulsaTechFest. I’ll be speaking at it. Jef Newsom from Improving is the closing key note (awesome!), and it’s WELL above sea level.
… and pray for the people in Houston. This looks like it’s going to be a rough one.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
(CommunityCast Events, Design and UX, Speaking, Technology)
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!
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September 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 am
(CommunityCast Events, Microsoft, Technology)
I just posted a new episode of CommunityCast.tv. It’s an interview with Joseph Hill, a good friend of mine that also happens to be the Product Manager of the Mono Project. If you watch the video all the way to the end you’ll see a couple of us giving Joseph a hard time for leaving the Dallas area and heading to Boston (to work for Mono).
Watch it here!
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June 23rd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
(CommunityCast Events, Family, Speaking)
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?
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May 26th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
(CommunityCast Events, Speaking, Technology)
As I mentioned earlier I was invited this month to be a judge at the Sabre Hack Day event. It was a huge honor and a lot of fun. I love these events, but even more I love the fact that Sabre’s senior management see the value in giving their employees the flexibility and freedom to participate is such a great event.
I’ve been to several companies where the theory de jure seems to be around developing a “COE” or Center of Excellence. Unfortunately, most of these COE’s end up being very self-serving and inwardly focused.
I’ve been an advocate of developing a different type of “COE” for a while now. Companies need to look for ways to develop “Cultures of Excellence” or “Communities of Excellence”. That’s the sort of COE’s that are important and that is the sort of thing that Sabre is helping to accomplish. In other words, COE’s need to be outwardly focused - raising the bar for everyone.
 
 
 
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March 9th, 2007 at 6:00 am
(CommunityCast Events)
This is going to be an incredible weekend for .NET! While the rest of the world will be flocking to TED or SXSW, the real developers will descend on Tulsa for the first ever Tulsa Code Camp. Of course Tulsa is no noob to tech events. Last October they hosted the, now infamous, TulsaTechFest. This Saturday is shaping up to have a similar outcome.
Presenters? Check out this line up! David Walker (president of the TulsaDeveloper.NET group and organizer TulsaTechFest) has pulled together another incredible group of speakers: Marc Mercuri from Microsoft, Claudio Lassala from EPS Software (The publishers of CoDe Magazine), Robert Boedigheimer lead architect from The Schawn Food Company, Keith Nicholson from KSDynamics, Raymond Lewallen (of CodeBetter fame) and BJ Pohl from Geniant and the Guerilla Programmer himself Jake Watkins.
Topics?! Check out these topics! LINQ, Windows Workflow, Multithreading, IIS7, ASP.NET Adapters, OO Design and Development, Windows Presentation Foundation, Design Patterns, BizTalk, C# 3.0.
I’ll be there to shoot some interviews for CommunityCast.tv. I’m especially looking forward to interviewing Marc Mercuri, hopefully he’ll be able to clear up some questions that came out of the conversations last night after the Dallas DNUG .NET 3.0 Community Launch. (Tim Rayburn loves WCS, but he wants Microsoft to convince him that it’s not the step child to the rest of .NET – is there a real managed WCS provider anywhere! I hope to get that answered tomorrow by the man that should know!)
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March 6th, 2007 at 6:00 am
(CommunityCast Events)
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As I previously mentioned, I have a busy week coming up. I had to make the important decision to spend a little more time with my family, not completely where myself out, and focus on a few less events.
If you are going to be in TX next week, then I would definitely head over to Austin!
SXSW | BarCampAustin | Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza!
I was really looking forward to seeing many great people (and many, many, many, many, many, many, many, more) in Austin on Sunday, but I will be heading to Redmond that day instead (more on that to come).
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