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IASA Training – Moved to July 12-16
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...
Posted: Jun 18 2010, 11:20 AM by mikev | with no comments
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IASA is currently running its first Open Enrollment for Foundations Training Globally
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...
Posted: May 11 2010, 06:41 AM by mikev | with no comments
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Windows Azure at SoCal .NET Architecture
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...
INETA Windows Azure Train-the-Trainer Sessions
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...
Windows Workflow Foundation, Today and Tomorrow
Last night at the SoCal .NET Architecture meeting I presented a look Windows Workflow Foundation (WF 3.5) as we have it today with a specific look at working with Windows Communication Foundation Services. I discussed ways you can harness the power of...
Posted: Aug 21 2009, 09:21 PM by mikev | with no comments
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VSTS Big Event Wrap-up
The Irvine Team System Big Event went off successfully April 30. A big thanks to all who attended. I really enjoyed the opportunity to deliver “It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Development & Testing” and “Architecture...
User Groups and Team System
Since the beginning of the year, I have done several user group presentations on Visual Studio Team System 2010. February 12 at SouthBay .NET and February 19 at SoCal .NET Architecture were warm-ups for the MSDN Developers Conference in San Francisco...
Orange County TechDays 2008 - Architecture
TechDays was a hoot. Three days of free content fresh from PDC and a whole lot more. Lynn Langit kept everything moving with some social networking for attendee questions in addition to her own presentations. I had a great time helping to organize the...
PDC Follow-up
PDC 2008 finished up last Thursday. I had a very productive time, both attending sessions and networking. Here are some of the session highlights: Keynote on Day 1 - Windows Azure announcement by Ray Ozzie. The cloud is coming. With Windows Azure, Microsoft...
Countdown to PDC
PDC is almost here. And, as a warm-up, we have the LA Code Camp Saturday and Sunday at USC. There will be over 80 presentations from our local talent, several “out of towners”, and some of the Microsoft product team members down for PDC. For...
TechDays '08 Coming to Costa Mesa in November
Microsoft is doing a TechDays event November 11-13 at the Cost Mesa Hilton. November 13 is focused on Architecture and Microsoft has asked me to organize the development architecture track. A key part of that will be an architecture panel discussion in...
Patrick Neeman at SoCal .Net Architecture
The IASA SoCal October Architecture meeting (10/16) is focusing on the importance of User Experience. Patrick Neeman, a colleague and good friend is presenting. Check out his blog http://www.usabilitycounts.com . How User Experience Ensures You Will Build...
Microsoft Product Team Meetings
In mid September I, along with other INETA NorAm board members, had the pleasure of meeting with several product teams at Microsoft while in Redmond for an INETA board of directors meeting. In our product team meetings, we shared our overall plan INETA...
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak on Wednesday September 10
On Sepember 10, I'll be doing a geekSpeak webcast on Dynamic Languages and the DLR . The web cast starts at 12:00 noon Pacific time. The link above will take you to online registration. Hope you can join us. Event Overview The geekSpeak webcast series...
More User Group Presentations on Dynamic Languages
Last Tuesday I presented my continually evolving “Dynamic Languages and the DLR” at the San Diego .NET Users Group . I have unit tests written in Iron Python running in NUnit as part of the presentation. This week, on Wednesday September 3...
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