IASA’s week long Irvine training course has been rescheduled for July 12 – 16. If you are considering attending, use the code IrvineIASA when registering. It won’t provide a discount but will benefit our SoCal IASA chapter. See my earlier...
We have rescheduled the Professional ScrumDeveloper Training course at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA to July 26-30. Check out the links at Scrum.org and http://accentient.com/scrum.aspx for more information and to register.
I’m late getting this posted but Saturday May 22 was the Central Coast Code Camp held at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. By my own guess there were about 100 plus in attendance. I did three presentations: Scrum Fundamentals, Herding Pigs – Managing...
The IASA Architecture Foundations 101/102 Intensive training course is being administered in Irvine May 17-21. The course has been vetted by our Board of Education, and will be instructed by our VP of Education, Andy Ruth. For those who don’t know...
I will be presenting Accentient’s Professional Scrum Developer course June 21-25 at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA. In cooperation with Microsoft, Ken Schwaber , and Scrum.org , and other industry subject matter experts, Accentient...
The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010 This event would be of interest to all that want to learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management. I will be presenting at the San Diego and Los Angeles events...
I'm frequently asked pricing questions for Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management products. As always, my response is check with your Microsoft sales representative for your specific case. Here's the suggested retail pricing. If you...
The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp will be January 31 and 31 at Cal State University Fullerton. Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups...
Microsoft wants to be sure they get it right with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET4. Feedback they've received from Beta 2 is being listened to and acted upon. In general, the new features are great but work is needed on performance. To that end, the release...
I'm a month late following up on PDC but it was a real success in my opinion. I had a great time starting off with Monday's pre-conference hosting an MVP table at the lunch break to discuss the new Visual Studio configurations and deeper integration...
This was a busy week for new stuff Microsoft. Wednesday Oct 21 was the official release day for Windows 7. It also was the first day of public availability for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 from MDSN downloads. You can download Beta 2...
The LA Code will be November 21 and 22, the weekend right after PDC 09 at the USC campus. Several teams from Microsoft including Team System, Languages (C# and VB.NET) and ASP.NET plan to be presenting sessions. I’m to entice some from the Windows...
INETA is again organizing the Birds of a Feather (BOF) discussions at PDC. BOF sessions are a bit different from the normal formal presentations. They are discussions on topics originated by and facilitated by volunteers. They are a great way to get involved...
On November 17, Microsoft will be officially releasing Windows Azure. Now is the time to get up to speed on cloud computing and Windows Azure. A lot of industries and organizations are moving toward the cloud. For the September 17 SoCal .NET Architecture...
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale...