http://developingux.com .NET | Design | Architecture | Community Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ That's right, tomorrow night I'll be speaking at the Rockford .NET user group (about an hour outside of Chicago) telling the Heroic Tale of Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and the Strategy Pattern. This is basically a modified and shortened version of one of the talks that ... http://developingux.com/2008/11/24/dependency-injection-in-silverlight-tomorrow-night-in-chicago/ Today I'm speaking at TechDays with Roger Guess (of Silverlight Addict fame!) on WPF. This is going to be an awesome talk.. .if you are in the Dallas area be sure to stop by! I've posted the Slides and Demo code on SkyDrive.       Enjoy! http://developingux.com/2008/11/18/techdays-2008-in-dallas/ 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 ... http://developingux.com/2008/11/02/texas-am-university-net-user-group-next-wednesday/ 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 ... http://developingux.com/2008/10/29/vslive-dallas-reg-code/ 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.. ... http://developingux.com/2008/10/27/not-at-pdc-do-this-instead/ It looks like this was just posted over at CommunityCast.tv After the Tulsa TechFest this year we went around and asked several attendees and speakers what Agile Development was to them... then we asked some of the non-attendees that happened to be in the area. Here are some of the responses. Awesome! ... http://developingux.com/2008/10/25/what-does-agile-mean-to-you-agiledotnet-conference-2008-is-november-14th/