Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in Conference on Sep 21st, 2005
I was at the Portland Oregon Code Camp this summer. What a lot of fun! If you haven’t been to one yet you really should find time to go. You’ll meet a ton of new people and probably will run into someone you know. For example, I got to the Reed College campus early Saturday [...]
Posted in Conference on Jul 22nd, 2005
I’m heading for Portland later today (Friday) to attend my first ‘Code Camp‘. I have a couple of talks on the roster, including my new, improved VSTO talk. The Camp is growing. As of today there are 290 registrations, seven presentation rooms and nearly 60 different talks. There are eleven different tracks, so there should [...]
Posted in Conference on Jul 18th, 2005
Code Camps are coming to the West Coast. My friends in Boston have been bragging about their Code Camps, how fun they are, how they are strengthening ties in the community. They also sure to point out that Code Camps started on the East Coast, that they’ve had several successful camps and why hasn’t anybody [...]
Posted in Conference on Apr 13th, 2005
I’m staying in Toronto this week, I’m giving a talk at VSLive and staying in town for a few days. It turns out the Jeremy C. Wright, the prolific blogger and author of a new blogging book (Blog Marketing - McGraw Hill), is in town today too. We met a couple months ago at one [...]
Posted in Conference on Mar 9th, 2005
Today is the first day of the annual Microsoft Authors summit. Microsoft has dozens of these technical conferences every year. Next month, for instance, they will host the MVP summit. The purpose: to reveal details and features from the next generation of software from Microsoft. To prepare the software industry – at least the portion [...]
Posted in Conference on Feb 17th, 2005
I have been on ‘the podium‘ innumerable times, as a speaker, teacher and panelist. I’ve also sat in the audience and watched my share of interesting talks, mediocre presenters, exhilarating speakers, boring script readers and painful, disastrous presentations. I once watched a conference speaker start their talk with 200 + people in the room and [...]
Posted in Conference on Feb 9th, 2005
Coffee Break with Richard Hale Shaw (I don’t know what happened to your coffee) Julia and Yuki – Happy .NET developers Speaker Lounge – Richard Hundhausen( on phone), Ken Getz, Bill Vaughn Sushi Dinner – Walt Ritscher, Andrew Brust, Brian Schmitt, Chris Kinsman, Julia Lerman, Yukiko Ito Laptop frenzy before their presentations. [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Feb 4th, 2005
Next week I am going to be down in San Francisco at VSLive. Its going to be a busy week for me. I’m giving three talks and am on at least one panel. I wrote about the sessions I’m giving in this blog entry last year. I’m also meeting with a few of my buddies [...]
Posted in Conference on Dec 30th, 2004
Guy Kawasaki has spent many hours of his life serving as a panelist at conference and conventions. Here’s his summary. Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. He gives sixty keynote speeches a year and doesn’t even keep count of the panels he’s appeared on or moderated. [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Dec 11th, 2004
Well it’s official. Microsoft has announced the dates for their Professional Developers Conference. Put September 13-16 2005 on your calendar and get ready to join the .NET extravaganza. Rumor has it that this will be the debut of .NET 2.0. This makes sense to me. The next beta will be out the beginning of 2005. [...]