Earlier this month, O'Reilly and Microsoft New England hosted a "non-partisan" user group leader summit at Microsoft's New England R&D Center in Cambridge Mass. What a cool place to host the event! I was unable to attend as I had a long standing date to attend the 25th anniversary party of a client...

Dealer.com is a young IT company that has been turning heads in Vermont and around North America since its early days. They provide web sites for car dealers in the U.S. and Canada and I believe are tops (or close to it) in their industry. It's been exciting to watch them as they continue to grow and...

I had to add another . My dear friend, Ceil , who passed away at the end of 2008 was a huge inspiration to me and mentor as I was "growing up" in IT. Ceil was a big part of the FoxPro developmnet community, ran her own user group in Westchester County, NY, participated in many FoxPro conferences, wrote...

Programmers in the 1800s? Women programmers in the 1800s? Yep. Check out the " Who was Ada " article on findingada.com. Ada's mother (her mother? That's also cool) taught her math when she was quite young. She met Charles Babbage in the 1830's. Babbage had been working on an analytical machine which...

I was in Poland last week to speak at the C2C community event and have a quick look around Warsaw and environs. It was a wonderful experience on many levels which I wrote about on my DevSource blog: Warsaw Poland's .NET Community [A New DevLife post]...

I am very excited to be able to be part of the very first meeting of the Warsaw Girl Geek Dinners . That's Warsaw, Poland. I am headed to Warsaw later this week to participate in Saturday's Communities2Communities Event where I will be presenting My Favorite Entity Framework Tips & Tricks ! The meeting...

If you are in the Toronto area, you have a great opportunity to hear Charles speak about Alan Turing's early work in computers. Here is more info directly from Charles' blog: Speaking at the University of Toronto on March 5...

For years, Rachel Appel was a well kept secret at .NET Valley in Scranton PA where she helps Jason Gaylord run the group. I met her years ago at one of their early meetings (I think there were 4 attendees!) and witnessed her presenting a few summer's ago when I also presented at their group again. I...

The INETA NORAM speakers bureau grows again. Who knew, 7 years ago when INETA started with a small list of some of the most well-known speakers in our industry, that the community and the ranks of great presenters would grow so much. Prior to the latest additions, the NORAM speaker bureau already had...

London Girl Geek Dinners just celebrated their 3rd Anniversary. Since its inception, the idea has taken hold and there are now GGDs all over the world. Read more here! [A New DevLife post]...