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The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010
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...
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp, January 30 and 31, Cal State Fullerton
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...
LA Code Camp, November 21 and 22
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...
PDC Birds of a Feather (BOF)
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...
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...
Scrum and User Experience Presentation, LA Scrum Club
Last night, Patrick Neeman and I did a tag-team presentation on Scrum and User Experience at the LA Scrum Club . The turnout was good and most importantly helped make the presentation an engaging conversation. The presentation ended shortly after 9 but...
Team System presentations from Rock & Roll Code Camp
Here are the links for the slide decks from my Team System presentations at the San Diego code camp on June 27: · A Lap Around VSTS 2010 · Maximizing Your Investment with VSTS 2008 The “Lap Around VSTS 2010” turned out to be...
SoCal Team System off to a great start
On June 23 rd , we kicked off the inaugural meeting of SoCal Team System . After some opening comments from William Salazar, Microsoft Developer Technology Specialist, we had a great presentation from Richard Hundhausen on Microsoft Visual Studio Team...
Announcing the launch of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group!
The SoCal Team System User Group will be launching on June 23. We'll be meeting in Irvine at QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100. Pizza and networking starts at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00. If you are in the Southern...
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp June 27 and 28, University of California San Diego
San Diego Code Camp is again coming up June 27 – 28 at US San Diego Extension. Always a great get-together, it again includes a Saturday evening dinner and rock-n-roll entertainment. As of today, there are 67 sessions registered. Check it out at...
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...
Next Code Camp January 24th & 25th at California 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 of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community...
Almost Lost it All in Freeway Complex Fire
On Saturday morning, November 15, just after 9:00 am we saw smoke in the distance (maybe 4 - 5 miles) straight behind our home. That was a real concern with the Santa Ana winds are blowing straight at us with gusts over 60 mph. We had our grand kids staying...
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...
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