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TechEd Recap
With TechEd being split into two weeks for Developers and IT Pros, it was a long experience for me. I covered both weeks for INETA. The first week we had the whole team on board and a lot of community stuff going on. We kept the INETA kiosk area well...
Microsoft announces some key chages in the way it supports user groups
Today, June 20, Graham Watson, a senior marketing manager at Microsoft focused on technical communities announced some changes in conjunction with Culminis . These changes are designed to bring improvements across the board in how Microsoft supports user...
Posted: Jun 20 2008, 07:12 PM by mikev | with no comments
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Florida Tweener Event
Florida has a great .Net user group culture and it was organized in full force putting together a great weekend of geeky stuff. Joe Healey, the local DE played a big part in helping to organize and support. He hosted a Friday night get together at TGI...
INETA board members have lunch with Bill Gates
This week at TechEd Daniel Egan, Morgan Baker and Rob Zelt attended a roundtable luncheon with Bill Gates along with other “influential members of the community” and S. Somasegar. Check out Rob and Daniel’s blogs http://www.robzelt.com...
Dynamic Languages at TechEd
Tuesday morning at TechEd after the keynote, I went over to the Dynamic Languages area, introduced myself to the team and did a little promotion for my BOF session. Bill Chiles and I went over to Neil Ford’s session on Design Patterns in Dynamic...
INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd
Today, INETA hosted a community leadership summit as a TechEd pre-conference get-together for INETA user group leaders and influential’s. About 70 attended for a great session of food, networking, and sharing. Rob Zelt led a discussion on best practices...
Posted: Jun 02 2008, 11:52 PM by mikev | with no comments
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UGTV (User Group Television) is online now
User Group TV launched yesterday. This is a great new media source to further extend our user group reach with great people and content for both the developer an IT pro communities. UGTV is now live and online on Edge and Channel 9! Developer: http:/...
Posted: May 29 2008, 11:02 AM by mikev | with no comments
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SoCal Code Camp June 28 & 29, University of California San Diego Extension
The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp is set for June 28 & 29 at UCSD Extension 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...
Getting Ready for TechEd
TechEd 2008 is almost here. I'll be there for both the Developer and IT Pro weeks working with INETA to broaden our reach to the community. Developer week Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions My Dynamic Languages and the DLR BOF session will be Wednesday evening...
Keith Pleas speaking at SoCal .Net Architecture
Designing for Operations Keith Pleas will be talking about management modeling, health modeling, the DSL language that was used in the just released Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool. The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool...
Jon Flanders on Rest at OC Connected Systems
Building RESTful Services Using Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 One of the key new features of Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 (WCF 3.5) is the Web Programming Model. The Web Programming Model enables developers to build Services using a RESTful...
User Group Support Services pilot launched
In an effort to better support User Groups worldwide, Microsoft is rolling out UGSS User Group Support Services. We at INETA have been, and will continue to be, working closely with this team to better serve the user group community… Please contact...
Posted: May 12 2008, 11:57 AM by mikev | with no comments
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Microsoft Program Managers Lisa Feigenbaum and Charlie Calvert at OC .Net
May 7, 2008 Meeting Best Practices with the Microsoft Visual C# 3.0 and LINQ and Visual Basic 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Details: This month we have visitors from Redmond for two great presentations on the latest and greatest technologies. Our monthly meeting...
Posted: May 07 2008, 10:10 AM by mikev | with no comments
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Mark Rosenberg elected new INETA NorAm Membership VP
Mark Rosenberg has just been elected as the new INETA Membership VP. Mark is a senior development instructor with QuickStart, MCT, MCP, a C# MVP, INETA SoCal Membership Mentor, INETA Speakers Committee volunteer, SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp co-organizer...
Posted: Apr 30 2008, 03:28 PM by mikev | with no comments
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INETA FY-09 Strategic Planning
As part of the World-Wide User Group Summit I led the INETA working session to develop the beginning strategic plan for INETA World-Wide. I based my outline on our thoughts and discussions for NorAm and threw the major bullit points into PowerPoint. We...
Posted: Apr 19 2008, 12:14 AM by mikev | with no comments
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