April 13th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
(Improving, Microsoft, Technology)
With all of the great press that Improving Enterprises has been getting lately (6 of the most talented MVP’s in DFW area work here, we’re a Microsoft Gold Partner in multiple competencies, our Rural Sourcing offering has been making waves, even our marketing team and java guys have been making news lately.)
It’s easy for people to look at us and think that we are *just* an amazing consulting and rural sourcing company pioneering agile in the Microsoft space and providing incredible service to our customers… well, I’m writing this post to make sure that you (yes, you specifically dear reader) know that we are also an incredible Microsoft Training Company.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
(Featured, INETA, Improving, Microsoft, Technology)
While there weren’t *actually* any Linux MVP’s announced on April 1st, there were several new MVP’s announced. Now, over 10% of the people at Improving Enterprises are recognized by Microsoft as “Most Valuable Professionals”. By the way, that “over 10% number” is not just our .NET developers… I’m including everyone.
What is an MVP? From the official site:
“MVPs are a select group of experts representing technology’s best and brightest people who share a commitment to community. While MVPs come from many backgrounds and a wide range of technical communities, they share a passion for technology and a demonstrated willingness to help others”
So without further ado… let me introduce the 6 Microsoft MVPs from Improving :
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February 27th, 2009 at 1:24 am
(CommunityCast Events, Improving, Microsoft, Speaking)
Next week I’ll be attending the 2009 MVP Summit in Seattle with fellow MVP and Improving’er David O’Hara. I’m especially looking forward to the sessions on the up and coming new technologies and to catch up with the various product teams and other MVPs! If you’ll be in the in the Seattle area next week look me up!
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February 23rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
(CommunityCast Events, Design and UX, Improving, Speaking, Technology)
My great friend and Social Media genius, Giovanni Gallucci is putting together an amazing event to help spread his knowledge and expertise in social media marketing to the masses and we’re hosting it!. Here’s the info from Giovanni’s announcement:
Social Media Has Changed The Landscape Forever
Social media has turned advertising, marketing and public relations upside down. Giovanni Gallucci is one of the most well-respected and well-known social media experts in the industry. He’s delivered social marketing solutions to some of the world’s best known brands and garnered media exposure for clients that would make any marketing & communications professional envious.
Extreme Social Media Marketing Workshop
In Dallas on March 10, 2009 you’ll be able to learn his techniques, developed over ten years as an online community developer, search engine programmer and online marketing consultant to help utilize these tools and platforms for yourself.
This one day social media training workshop will train you to utilize the new media marketing tools of twitter, blogs, videos, photos, social networks and other social media related websites in your online marketing efforts.
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January 19th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
(Improving, Technology)
The last couple of months I’ve done a lot of speaking around Silverlight as well as developed a 3 day Silverlight class for Improving (where I work). This is one of the demos / exercises from that class. Enjoy!
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January 4th, 2009 at 12:21 am
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I think that I’ve mentioned it before… but Improving Enterprises (where I work) has a single RSS feed mash up with ALL of the people at Improving that blog. You can subscribe to the feed here, or sign up for email notifications. While you’re at it, check out the cool widget from Feedburner (shown above).
Allen Hurst used Yahoo pipes to put this mash up together and then we ran the whole thing through Feedburner to give us the email and widget features. Awesome!
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December 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
(Design and UX, Featured, INETA, Improving, Microsoft, Speaking, Technology)
This is one of my favorite talks that I’ve been doing lately. I like the concepts here because they don’t just apply to Silverlight applications, but all of your software development. I also like that fact that most people don’t think about some of the more advanced software approaches that you can take with Silverlight.
Download my demo code from SkyDrive.
Enjoy!
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November 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 am
(CommunityCast Events, INETA, Improving, Microsoft, Speaking, Technology)
Next Wednesday (November 5th, 2008) I’ll be heading down to College Station, TX for INETA to present at the Texas A&M University .NET User Group’s lunch time meeting.
I’ll either be presenting on "Developer Designer Zen – Bringing two worlds together" or "Dependency Injection with Silverlight (A Silverlight Tale of Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and the Strategy Pattern) "
It looks like the User Group as a list server (dotnet@listserv.tamu.edu) set up so that you can participate in the User Group conversation.
I’m looking forward to meeting the .NET developers at Texas A&M and then afterwards I’m planning on meeting up with some friends from Always Creative, then it’s off to my first visit to the Improving Rural Sourcing Development Center that’s based in College Station.
If you’re in the area be sure to drop by!
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October 29th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
(CommunityCast Events, Featured, Improving, Speaking, Technology)
VS Live, the largest independent professional developer conference on Microsoft technologies, is coming to Dallas December 8th - 11, 2008!. I’ve been given a special registration code that I can offer to you that will save you $300 off of your registration at the next VS Live Dallas.
Register now with code: SPJEN to save $300!
I’ll be speaking on
See you there!
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October 27th, 2008 at 9:39 am
(CommunityCast Events, Improving, Microsoft, Speaking, Technology)
First, follow the virtual event going on this week on Twitter, Live Meeting and other various virtual platforms. Get all of the updates at http://notatpdc.com/ (like the schedule and presenters) drop them a line if you have a topic that you’d like to speak on this week. Just think.. you could be a presenter at NotAtPDC2008!
As a side note: I love community driven events like this! the .NET community literally, and nearly spontaneously launched NOT AT PDC Sunday night, and it looks live and active by Monday morning. Great work every one! (especially @RachelAppel and @ChrisLove)
OK, so now anyone "attending" NotAtPDC can also check out the other PDC’s keynote this morning as it will be streamed over the Internet too. (thanks for participating Microsoft! 
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Other upcoming events that you should sign up for
The AgileDotNet Conference is a 1 day conference being put on by Microsoft, Improving Enterprises and the Dallas C# SIG dealing with bringing agile methodologies to .NET developers and especially dealing with the challenges of implementing an agile process in an enterprise environment. It’s gonna be awesome. Check out this video, then go sign up! (oh yeah, did I mention that it’s free!)
This one will cost you$100 USD, but this content looks like it’ll will be well worth it! Microsoft is putting on a "traveling road show" covering a lot of the topics that are coming out of "the other PDC" this week. Check out their tour schedule and you’ll see that there is probably one coming to a city near you!
Hope to "see" you there!
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