http://developingux.com .NET | Design | Architecture | Community Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:32:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In June I’ll be the local Silverlight expert, leading a technology track on Rich Internet Applications (RIA) at a Microsoft’s BizSpark event, SparkStart. From the official announcement: SparkStart is a full day of business and technology discussion (open format) and learning event for ... http://developingux.com/2009/05/26/bizspark-for-startups/ I’ll be speaking at the Big Design Conference in Dallas. From the website: The Big Design Conference is an intense day of learning within the scope of Strategy, Social Media, User Experience, and Code Development. Experts from across the country will gather to present ... http://developingux.com/2009/05/24/silverlight-expert-big-design-conference-in-dallas/      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 ... http://developingux.com/2009/03/02/silverlight-redmond-net-user-group/ 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 ... http://developingux.com/2009/02/27/mvp-summit-next-week/ 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, ... http://developingux.com/2009/02/23/extreme-social-marketing-at-improving-enterprises/   Microsoft has put on several of these events all over the US. If you missed the Microsoft PDC Conference then the Dallas event on Monday is the best local place to get a lot of the same information on what’s new with .NET and the future roadmap ... http://developingux.com/2009/01/23/msdn-devcon-dallas/ 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 ... http://developingux.com/2009/01/07/silverlight-at-the-north-dallas-net-users-group-tonight/ 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 ... http://developingux.com/2008/12/18/dependency-injection-with-silverlight/ This week I'm attending and speaking at VS Live Dallas. VS Live is the largest independent conference on Microsoft technologies in North America (and maybe in the World?). So far, I've met a ton a great people that are attending (from as far away as Florida and ... http://developingux.com/2008/12/09/attend-vs-live-tonight-for-free/    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 ... http://developingux.com/2008/12/01/silverlight-visual-and-data-templates-ft-lauderdale-net-user-group/