I'm actually leaving my house and leaving my road and even leaving my state today. And I won't be doing it on my bicycle. I'm heading down to Springfield Mass to do an INETA sponsored presentation at the Western Mass .NET User Group hosted by MassMutual . I've spoken at this group before when they were...

I was perusing Chris Williams' blog over on GeekswithBlogs.Net. I met Chris many years ago through INETA and in person at an INETA User Group Leader event. Chris ran the user group in Charleston, South Carolina and has since moved to Minnesota where he has survived his first winter with all of his fingers...

I am thrilled to share this fabulous news ... INETA Noram has a new website . The reason for my jubilation is that for a variety of reasons, INETA has been trying to create a new website for about 4 years, so to see it actually happen is wonderful. This may have just launched because I hadn't heard anything...

I'll be in the Detroit area this week giving presentations on the ADO.NET ENtity Framework at GANG in Southfield (Wednesday night) and GLUG in Lansing (Thursday night). THe Lansing talk is sponsored by INETA . Read more here... [A New DevLife post]...

INETA Noram's new board began this month. Thinking about INETA and about what a tiny percentage of .NET developers take advantage of their local user groups, I wrote a little elevator pitch over on my other blog ... [A New DevLife post]...

Once again, INETA is coordinating and leading a full day meeting of .NET User Group Leaders at TechEd . While budget no longer allows INETA to fund bringing many leaders from across the US and Canada to the event (as they have done in the past), TechEd is an event attended by many u.g. leaders, so it...

Thanks so much to INETA , Andy Robinson (leader of Bellingham.NET ) and Paul Mehner and Camey Combs from South Sound .NET for getting me out to the Seattle area to present at their user groups. I did a session on LINQ to SQL in Web Apps in Bellingham on Wednesday night after spending 17 hours trying...

Tomorrow I am flying to Seattle then speaking tomorrow night at the Bellingham.NET User Group (which is even closer to the Canadian border than where I live) and then Thursday night at South Sound.NET in Olympia . Thanks to my pal Camey Combs for suggesting the trip and to INETA and user group leaders...

If you are not on the email list to receive the monthly newsletter for INETA NORAM you can always find them at www.ineta.org/newsletters . Scott Spradlin does a great job putting this together as editor. I do the speaker interviews each month, something I started when I was the editor. This month I got...

I will be speaking in Albany NY at TechValley.NET on March 12th about ADO.NET Orcas. In April I will be doing a two city tour speaking at Bellingham.NET (a group led by Andrew Robinson, that is a brand new member of INETA) and then at South Sound .NET in Olympia, Washington run by my old INETA pal, Paul...