I have gathered up my slides and demos from Oredev and DevConnections and put them on the internet. The PPTs are on Slideshare. The demos are on the downloads page of my book’s website: www.learnentityframework.com . That page also has the links to the slideshare urls. Here’s what you’ll...

Not at PDC? Well, yeah PDC is having some sessions streamed, like keynotes etc, but for the rest of us, there’s www.notatpdc.com . Two days of live presentations on lots of great topics. Here’s a screenshot of the schedule so far (note that it is CENTRAL time). Go to the website to get speaker...

Tomorrow (Thursday Aug 27th at 1pm EST) I will be presenting a one hour webcast on Entity Framework Tips and Tricks . If you are curious what to expect, here’s the rundown. It’s a Tips & Tricks session, filled with a variety of things that people ask about on the forums and other things...

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've just arrived today in Warsaw to speak at tomorrow's Communities2Communities event and then to lead a discussion at Sunday's inaugural Warsaw Girl Geek Dinners event. I have never been to Poland before so it's a thrill to be here and I'm really excited about the conference and the GGD. While a bulk...

I'll be presenting on EF in Ottawa on Thursday night at a joint meeting of the OttawaSQL.net and Ottawa Community.NET user groups. I'm happily bringing along two copies of my book (thanks O'Reilly) to give away as well as two licenses to Huagati's Tools for DBML/EDMX . I have been wanting to get there...

It's hard to believe that the Vermont.NET User Group has been going for 7 years. But it's true. Our February meeting marks our 7th Anniversary. And since it will also be around the release date of my book , I scheduled myself to do a presentation which will be "You can do *that* with Entity Framework...

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...

On Tuesday I flew down to Washington D.C. to speak at the CapArea.NET User Group. It's such an easy group to get to since it means a 1/2 hour drive to the airport and a 1 hour and 15 minute direct flight. Top it off by being picked up by the Duthie Car Service which delivered me directly to the meeting...

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...

For attendees of my EF mapping session, I have uploaded the latest version of the PowerPoint (that's the verson I used this morning) and a zip file with the demos and database to the DevTeach site. I had a bad fat-finger moment at the beginning of the session where I inadvertently typed a "]" into the...

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...

It was a last minute scramble, but as I will be in Amsterdam for the SDN conference next month, the Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinners managed to schedule a meeting for my last night there. I won't be doing the same talk that I am doing the next night at the London Girl Geek Dinner event. In Amsterdam the talk...

If you are thinking about going to DevTeach in Montreal (Dec 1-5), tomorrow is the last day to get the CN$300 early bird discount for the conference. In addition to some EF talks during the conference, I'll be teaching a full day post con workshop on Dec 5th. I'll be raffling off a full-blown MSDN Universal...

I've been laying low from a lot of things while working on my book this summer, but I just confirmed two INETA speaking gigs. The first is only a few weeks away. I'll be doing a presentation on Silverlight 2.0 Annotation at the Western Mass .NET Group in Springfield, MA which should be about a 3 or 3...

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...

Spring has arrived in Vermont, but I'm leaving. This afternoon I start my overnight journey to Stockholm where I will be participating in the Developer Summit 08 and have been working with Patrik Lowendahl and Mats Rydin who are coordinating. Patrik's company, Cornerstone is instrumental in this conference...

Over the next few months I'll be presenting at 4 conferences in Stockholm, Orlando, Toronto then again Orlando. I'll be doing talks on Entity Framework, Astoria, Silverlight and Data Access in general. Details and links are here... [A New DevLife post]...

I found out recently that I will be giving not one, but two sessions related to Entity Framework at TechEd 2008 US Developer . Advanced Entity Framework: Entity Data Model in the Enterprise and .NET 3.5 Data Access Guidance I'm sure there will be plenty of other ADO.NET/EF/Data Services sessions there...

I am very excited about this!! I will be presenting 2 sessions and a full-day workshop at the Developer Summit 2008 in Stockholm April 9-11 . The workshop is "Entity Framework 0-60" and the sessions are Entity Framework in the Enterprise and Silverlight Annotation. Patrik Lowendahl, one of the organizers...

Although these have been available to conference attendees, I have uploaded the presentations slides from the following sessions to the TALKS page of my website : ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview Real World Entity Framework (multi-tier issues and patterns) ADO.NET 3.5 Data Access Guidance Access RESTful...

This will be DevTeach's first non-Montreal based conference. I've never been to Vancouver and am looking forward to seeing it. As always prior to a multi-day trip, I have a little trepidation. We're just getting beautiful snow and I want to ski. My parents (who live 5 hours away in the Binghamton NY...

There's something about a conference that inadvertantly makes me go dark. I did 4 sessions and a workshop at DevConnections last week. In the weeks leading up to to this, I was heads down finalizing my presentations. That includes mucking with the PowerPoint's and fine-tuning demos and stuffing as much...

Okay, I lied. I thought I was staying home all summer , but it turns out that the Greater Lansing User Group had a request in to INETA and it just so happens that their July meeting date falls the same week as the famous Ann Arbor Art Fair that I have always wanted to go to. So, I will be doing an INETA...

My Entity Framework presentation at DevTeach was in the last slot of the conference. It was scheduled in the theater which looks like something out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting. Some of the speakers were referring to it as the muppet theater. About 5 minutes into my presentation, we were informed that...

Yesterday, I presented a session at DevTeach called Hacking ClickOnce. I have lived the web based deployment pain for many years and finally found success with ClickOnce after I worked out some unsupported scenarios with ClickOnce. I wrote about this in an article in CoDe Magazine's Nov/Dec 2006 issue...

On Wednesday, I presented a session on Asynchronous Programming for ASP.NET 2.0 Developers. The purpose of this talk is to introduce programmers to the new async features for ASP.NET 2.0 (Async Pages, Asyn Tasks, Event Based Async Web Services, Async DataBinding and when there is time a little pet feature...

There are dreams that are common for people; the one where you are flying, the one where you suddenly realize you have no clothes on and the one where you walk into college or high school class and there is a big test and you realize you haven't been to any classes all year. Since I've been speaking...

I have posted the powerpoints and demos from my four talks at DevConnections last week. They are all on http://www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx . Each session is listed alphabetically. At the end of the session description you will find a link for the PowerPoint deck and for the zip file with the demos...

Torn between wanting to just get 'er done and wanting to have a complete comprehension of everything that is going on under the covers? That's the line I have to constantly wrangle with when giving conference presentations and it's truly hard to please everyone, though I do know who I'm aiming for. Read...

After I warm up by speaking at my local user group tonight ( Vermont.NET ) about Asynchronous ASP.NET 2.0, I am taking the proverbial show on the road and will be presenting this same session in Cleveland tomorrow night (9/12), then my session called “5 Supposedly Scary things about .NET” in Findlay...

I had a blast presenting in NYC Thursday night on ADO.NET 2.0 Query Notifications. It was also a great whirlwind trip to my old stomping grounds where I lived for my first eight years out of college. I did a little of everything...subway, taxis, Museum of Modern Art, falafels in Union Square, the farmer...

I had a great time speaking at the Western Mass .NET group last night (thanks INETA!) THe group meets sometimes in Northampton and sometimes in Easthampton, Mass. Northampton is a very hip small city replete with coffee houses where the groovy people hang out and vehicles roaming the streets with kayaks...

I'll be presenting at two user groups in Massachussets next week. I will be giving the same presentation at both groups: "Asynchronous Programming for ASP.NET Developers". Description: Asynchronous programming makes so much sense for web applications but is often tough to achieve. With .NET 2.0, there...

I'm finally recovering from my whirlwind trip of three .NET User Groups in Pennsylvania last week. Thanks to INETA fr enabling me to go an to the u.g. leaders for inviting me. Here are links to the powerpoints and demos on my website. I have also given your u.g. leaders permission to put them on your...

It's happened again. Not one, but three user groups in one trip! Here's the schedule of my July INETA user group speaking tour: Tuesday, July 18th: Central Penn .NET , Harrisburg PA, "Developing Ink Applications with the Tablet PC SDK" Wednesday, July 19th: Lehigh Valley.NET , Bethlehem PA, "Customized...

Tomorrow I leave for a trip that I am really excited about. I am going to speak to INETA user groups in some of the most beautiful places in North America: New Brunswick , Nova Scotia and Newfoundland . These are places I have wanted to visit for most of my adult life. I'll be talking about Advanced...

I did an MSDN Webcast today on Introducing WSE 3.0. Since I had an unusually short amount of time to get through all of my demos,I practiced them over and over (even though they were old hat to me ;-)) just to make sure nothing unexpected happen. On the very last demo, where I created a new Policy that...

Somehow, almost everytime I schedule an INETA speaking event, I end up getting asked to speak at another nearby group as long as I'm there. Why not? I say. It's fun, and I control my schedule. Luckily, the user group leaders have been flexible enough so that I can do the talks on consecutive nights....

The "News Quirks" column of this weeks edition of Seven Days (Vermont's weekly indie) has a interesting story on reducing the stress of public speaking. The story is at the bottom of the page. Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

Milwaukee was great at Deeper in .NET. I wrote a little about that this morning over here and posted some pics here . Next week I go to Huntsville, Alabama as an INETA speaker to talk about Advanced Data Access Techniques with ADO.NET 2.0. Then the next week is DevTeach in Montreal. Hopefully it will...

Code Samples from my two latest CoDe Magazine artcles: Ink on the Web SQL Server 2005 Query Notifications Tell .NET 2.0 Apps When Critical Data Changes are on the " articles " page of my website. Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

I have been doing a bit of organizing and gotten the following two sessions from DevConnections on-line. Advanced Data Access with ADO.NET 2.0 Five (Supposedly) Scary Things about .NET These can be found on the " talks " page of my website. The talks are listed alphabetically with links to the PPT and...

With most conferences,speakers need to submit their powerpoints way in advace of the conferences. Attendees are provided with books filled with the printouts of the decks so that they can take notes during the conference. It is not uncommon with a new talk to fine tune it between that early preparation...

My quiet (snowless boo hoo hoo) winter at home is winding down. Soon I will have to start tugging at the roots that have been deeply embedding me into my beautiful little place in the world and flit about the country ...err continent, that is. It all begins again in about a week. April 3 - 6: DevConnections...

Brad Abrams has a long list of credits for the folks who helped him create demos for this MIX session . When I was at TechEd last June, I saw a totally awesome demo in a WCF Reliablility session that also had some top talent at Microsoft involved in building the demo. The Microsoft demos for the Indigo...

Michele Leroux Bustamante has posted code samples from her sessions at SD West. The posts keep coming and coming. I think she did something like 40 sessions! Not really, but it looks like she did 5 regular sessions and 2 half day sessions. I do not know how on earth she manages that. It must be an IDesign...

This spring I will be heading out to speak at the fourth Deeper in .NET event that is hosted by the Wisconsin.NET user group. This is Scott Isaac's first time coordinating it, as former group leader Brian Tinkler has gone to work for Microsoft. This will be a one day event with 5 talks. Michele Leroux...

Many speakers have big problems with timing, especially in a conference setting when you cannot go long. Though I have practiced talks against a clock, this does not really help me when I'm in the session - if a question takes more time than I should have allowed or I ramble, then the time I took in...

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...

I plan to show off this mega visualizer in my Debugger Visualizer session today as well as the DateTime visualizer that John Mueller wrote for his DevSource article. Posted from BLInk!...

I will be doing a session on Tablet PC development at GUVSM.NET on December 12th. This is sponsored by the MSDN Canada Speaker Bureau. A beautiful time of year (though perhaps a wee bit frigid) to visit a beautiful city. I plan to stay an extra day to see the Provence exhibit at the museum of Fine Arts...

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...

Kate Gregory and I leave tomorrow for South Africa to present at TechEd. [ Read more...] [A DevLife post] Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

One of the talks I will be doing at Visual Studio Connections is "Deciphering C# for VB Developers". One of the BEST resources for converting your code back and forth is O'Reilly's C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference . I have a slide in the presentation devoted just to the book. Now I have dozen...

The agenda for TechEd South Africa is now online. I see that two of my session will be in Session Room 1 - the big room. This room as a capacity of 800 people (okay not so bad as TEchEd US where it's more like 8,000). But still.... gulp. The fun begins on Sunday evening at 7pm (Oct 23) with the welcome...

I really enjoyed presenting at the CNY .NET Developer Group last week. It was a nice surprise to discover that the meeting was held about 2 miles from where I lived until I was 10 years old. This was the third meeting of this new group and the room was filled to capacity (about 20 or so) which is rea...

A few weeks ago as I prepared for the weekend Code Camp IV in Waltham, I was going back and forth finalizing my four presentations, three of which were on topics that couldn't be farther from each other. Two talks were related to Web Services: WS Security Fundamentals and Overview of WSE 3.0. A third...

Programming Virtual Earth This was a chalk talk, so there is not a formal powerpoint or demos. Check the Virtual Earth category on my weblog for any code samples or insights I post. Microsoft's implementation of Virtual Earth on MSN www.viavirtualearth.com Developer Center run by Dr. Neil Roodyn. Contains...

I have uploaded the powerpoint for Overview of WSE 3.0 that I presented at Code Camp IV in Waltham. You can find them at www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx . Scroll down the page for "Overview of WSE 3.0". Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

I have uploaded the latest versions of my powerpoint and demo files for this presentation. You can find them at www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx . Scroll down the page for "What's New in ADO.NET 2.0" I removed the previous versions so that everything is up-to-date. Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

Just a reminder that I will be presenting at the CNY .NET Developers User Group in my home territory of E. Syracuse, NY this Wednesday. My parents still live only about 1 1/2 hours away, it was really easy to justify the 6 hour drive each way as I will actually go to visit my folks for a few days and...

There, I said it. With permission. I am SOOOOOOOOOO excited. I have never been to Africa before and plan to definitely get some exploring since we will be right next to Pilanesberg National Park . There is ONE more person who will be making this announcement and flying together with me from JFK to Johannesburg...

I am very excited that it is now about 98% certain, but not official yet, that I will be speaking at [ this space intentionally left blank ]. But I can't blog about it yet - not until it is 100% official. Uggh. Stay tuned! :-) www.acehaid.org...

I have posted the powerpoint for the C# for VB Programmers session that I gave at Visual Studio Connections earlier this week. They are located on this page: www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx . The disclaimer I gave at the start of this talk is that I am a VB programmer mostly, and not a C# programmer....