At the end of one of my sessions at DevConnections last week, a girl friend of mine from Burlington who was at the conference came into the room and sat down with a big grin on her face. It seems that she and another girl friend of mine, a programmer from Alaska, had made an executive decision about...

This weekend I'm heading off for conferences in Europe ( SDC Netherlands , DevReach in Sofia and some Girl Geek Dinners in between ( Amsterdam & London )) but there is a notable event in San Francisco at the same time that I want to recommend if you are a last-minute (but can't quite make it to Europe...

While I continue to enjoy being at home in Vermont for the whole summer, I have to look past this fantasy to the reality of my upcoming travel where I get to share the Entity Framework (and Silverlight) love around the world. I have yet to get this all onto my website schedule. Here's what's on my schedule...

I left DevConnections for the Orlando airport and when I got there had another hour and a half before my flight, so headed to the Red Carpet Club. I walk in and as I go to sit down I see Dr. Neil . As I got closer to where he was sitting, there was Michele Leroux Bustamante and Mark Miller . A half hour...

I've been in Orlando at DevConnections for the past few days. I've been a little under the weather which has made it a little rough around the edges for me, but I'm surviving. While it was a bit of a challenge to present a full day workshop with a nasty chestcold, this was nothign compared to Kathleen...

While it's very hard to leave Vermont when we are having incredible weather (70 - 80 degree days with blue and sunny skies!) I am on my way to Orlando, FL for DevConnections. Once again, there is a full track dedicated to Data Access. I'll kick it off with a full day of Entity Framework tomorrow. Monday...

The fall DevConnections is coming up in another 10 days (Nov 5-9) in Las vegas. It looks like they will have about 5,000 attendees again, like last year which is amazing. I will be doing a variety of talks. One that i'm especially looking forward to will be teaming up with John Sudds from the Internet...

This is a great thing that DevConnections has been putting together for the past few conferences. There will be a separate luncheon area on one day for women attendees to get together and gab away. In the fall, we did it on the last day and everyone said they wished they had been able to meet each other...

DevConnections is this coming up this week! Here are some last minute things to know about. The registration is unbelievable this year. There are nearly 5000 people registered for the combined shows. More stats: 190 speakers and held in a convention center that is literally one million square feet! If...

DevConnections (combination of 6 conferences: ASP, Visual Studio, Mobile, Sharepoint, SQL Server and Office) is only a few weeks away. I'm going out to present 2 sessions for ASP Connections (Managing & Deploying ASP.NET 2 Sites and Asynchronous ASP.NET), one for Mobile Connections (an advanced Ink...

Now that all three of my DevConnections powerpoint decks and demos are online, I just wanted to have one post for linking to them all. If you were an attendee of ASPConnections or Visual Studio Connections, you should have password access to this stuff on the DevConnections site. Otherwise, they are...

The TabletPC Hands on Labs were very popular at DevConnections. I think I heard that over 600 people did the labs. Upon completion of the HOLs, the attendees were given a bright orange Mobile PC baseball cap. Throughout the conference, 3 attendees wearing those hats won a new Toshiba M400 Mobile PC ...

From Damir Tomicic's weblog: Great offering for INETA User Groups in Europe - DevConnections, 24-27 April 2006, Nice, France, with ScottGu, Dino Esposito, Michele Bustamante, Juwal Lowy, Prashant Sridharan, Hans Verbeeck and many more: "...Hi Damir, I would like your help getting the message out to INETA...

At Scott Guthrie's DevConnections keynote, Petyo Ivanov (from telerik) noticed that Scott was using CSS for the page design in his Atlas demos. Petyo asked him about it later at the Microsoft Unplugged event. [ read more ... ] [A DevLive post] Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

I just returned from another fantastically successful DevConnections conference. There were so many attendees, the weather was great and just so many fantastic speakers and sessions. In addition to what you can learn in sessions, just being there provides a lot of opportunities to learn even while wandering...

Though it was 70 degrees on Friday, it is back to the 30's here in Vermont so the warm weather is just one more thing I am looking forward to as I take off for Florida shortly (shortly as in I should be putting my bags in the car, not sitting in front of the computer.) This will be my 4th time speaking...

DevConnections is coming in a little over a week. Hooray! At Tuesday's lunch, there will be a bunch of tables reserved for women so that we can all get together and meet - attendees and the women speakers. That will be fun. I remember when I first started going to conferences, I was so excited to see...

Well, not quite Paris, but how about the beautiful locale of Nice France? This year, DevConnections is expanding it's venues to Europe with it's first conference in Nice form April 24 - 27th . Many of the speakers that you are used to seeing at DevConnections in the U.S. will be there. I won't be there...

I will be doing 4 [new] talks at Connections this spring. I was happy to learn that both Alex Homer and Dave Sussman will be also there this time. These guys are in the U.K. so they can't always make it. Now to find a great sushi restaurant and see what other squiggly things I can talk Dave into trying...

Adnan Masood is a lucky guy - an attendee at DevConnections who fully took advantage of his time there. He not only attended a great variety of sessions, but documented his experience very well . Lucky for me since I spent most of my time there fine tuning my sessions. You, too, can experience DevConnections...

I have sent all of the revised powerpoints from my 4 sessions at DevConnections to be put up on the Connections website. If you were an attendee, there is information in your book on how to download these. I will be packing up the demos and getting them off to the conference organizers as well. This...

If you are doing evals for sessions at DevConnections or any conference, comments are really helpful in addition to filling out the checkboxes. If you liked our talk - what did you like about it? If you didn't like it - it is extremely useful to know why! The same goes for the other questions that are...

Dan Appelman and I had a fun time talking about casing with some C# developers over lunch at DevConnections yesterday... [ read more.. .] [A DevLife post] Posted from BLInk!...

Sushi with Charles Petzold, Kathleen Dollard and Esther Schindler ... [ read more ... ] [A DevLife post] Posted from BLInk!...

Shirley & Gary Brothers (who run DevConnections) invited the speakers up their amazing suite in "THE Hotel" at Mandalay Bay for cocktail hour this evening. Here are some photos... We are such good and reponsible speakers though and had to leave so we could work on our talks! Evjens Active Nick, Brian...

In my Sql Query Notification session, I had an odd problem. My SqlCacheDependency demo did not receive it's invalidation. This happened when I set it up in code and also when I set it up in <%Cache> directive on the page. This is a demo that I have done many times in the past year so I was not...

Really ... I wish I could just go to all of the amazing sessions around me. So many things I haven't explored yet in VS2005 that I could be learning!! Though of course, I'm thrilled to be able to share what I have learned by giving the sessions. So I will just keep working at making my own sessions as...

WSE 3.0 is now fully released . Thanks to Mark, Sidd (the two I worked with most closely) and the whole team for all the work on this great product that I love to love. Hmm, I wonder if my session on Thursday will be the first presentation to use the full release of wse 3.0? Too bad it's only a one hour...

Where better to talk about the MenuStrip, ToolStrip and other cool new WinForms controls but in Las Vegas. Jessica Fosler who owns these pieces of VS2005 WinForms is presenting today. Unfortunately, I'm now up in my room prepping my own 4 sessions but definitely enjoyed meeting her this morning in the...

Typical - must leave for the airport in 1/2 hour and have been doing client work all morning. Still have to pack (thank goodness I washed all my clothes already). Hopefully my travelling duds aren't too wrinkly! I am so looking forward to another DevConnections conference and then a vacation in Zion...

I'm reviewing my demo that I built for caching data at the middle tier that is part of my query notification session at DevConnections next week - and had a funny moment. I wrote this a while ago and am just revisiting it and felt pretty impressed with myself when I saw how it worked. It's a little complex...

This is an attempt to alleviate a problem that I have had a few times when presenting. Even though I check the time constantly during my talk (and will be using a travel clock from now on rather than my watch - great tip from Kate Gregory and also they were provided for us at TechEd), I have, on a few...

yippee!! What this means of course is that I will be making some last minute changes to my presentation computer 1 day before I do my What's new in WSE3.0 session at DevConnections. Hey, this is bleeding edge, right? I am willing to take the risk... :-) Currently I am running VS2005 RTM with the October...

One of the things that I am looking forward to at DevConnections in Las Vegas (besides the conference, besides the sessions and besides to my return to Coral Reef where I Kathleen Dollard and I ate 3 nights in a row last year...) is seeing my friends that I only see from one conference to the next. Although...

As I leave for DevConnections in less than a week, it's time to put my head into Las Vegas now, though it's difficult to extract it from South Africa. DevConnections is going to be awesome. I already love this conference but with the addition of having a launch party, it will be that much more fun. Tuesday...