Update: The webcast is online! But I unfortunately, the sound is dreadful. I’m still waiting for the recording of the webcast to go online. It’s not there yet, but when it is, it will be on the same OReillyNet page that was used for registering: Entity Framework Tips & Tricks August 27th...

Next week I'll be doing a Live Meeting based presentation for the Florida.NET - they are calling it Fort Lauderdale Online . The presentation will be Entity Framework Core Concepts, something I think people seem to want out of every EF session I present. Therefore, I decided to create a whole session...

I remember watching a presentation a few years ago by a Microsoft presenter who seemed to start every sentence with "so". It quickly became all the rage amongst speakers from Microsoft and I always notice it and cringe. It is a completely unconscious "tick". Another one of the "hold please, just gathering...

Many of the demos I do with Entity Framework do not involve the UI. In order to run them however, I need to start with some type of exe, so I just build a console app whose main method calls the different methods to demonstrate functionality. Someone suggested that rather than use the console app, I...

Today I head off to beautiful Stockholm, Sweden for the 2009 version of Cornerstone's Developer Summit. I spoke at this conference last year and really loved it. Not just being in Stockholm (what a city!) but the conference was a lot of fun for me because I met a lot of new people who approach software...

I'm thrilled to learn that I'll be going to Warsaw in mid-March to speak at the Communities to Communities event. I normally say "no no no" to winter travel but Michal Chaniewski has been trying to get me there for a few years so I finally said yes. I'm really looking forward to this. I've never been...

As long as I'm going to be in the D.C. area to speak at the CapArea.NET User Group on Tuesday, I'm going to stay an extra day and speak at the new NOVA Girl Geek Dinner (this will be their second event) on Wednesday. ( Register here. ) I'll be talking about "Defining the -ette in Geekette"...

I'll be heading to the D.C. area on Tuesday to present an Intro to E.F. at the CapArea.NET User Group on Tuesday. Meeting details are here . This is an INETA sponsored event. Thanks INETA! :-) I've done a lot of presentations with this title though they have all been different and I'm constantly thinking...

Last week I uploaded the demos from the Mapping session (NET455) I taught at DevTeach on Thursday morning. Things were a blur following that! I now have the demos from the afternoon session Object Services Deep Dive (NET466) on the web site as well as the demos from the full day workshop on Entity Framework...

Claudio Perrone is a developer who is passionate about Agile practices. We when we were both presenters at the Developer Summit in Stockholm this past spring. We had a lot of chats about presentation style and I've been very inspired by what he showed me and got me thinking about. I learned the hard...