Microsoft’s Channel 9 has announced the winners of two contests: Cod’n My Way to PDC and Blog’n My Way to PDC that rewarded airfare, hotel and conference passes. The first contest: Cod’n My Way to PDC has two winners: my buddy casey chesnut (he’s a big fan of lower case letters) who I have never met in person (so I’m really happy about this) and Peter Jousovec from [read more…].
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William lives in Singapore so I’m so happy to see that he’ll be at PDC. We talk a lot on i.m. and have never met!
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Microsoft has hired Ani Babaian, from the Denver area, to be the D.E. for the Rocky Mountain region. What this means is that the most important and personal contact– on the level of mentor, advisor and technical expert — that the general developer community will have at Microsoft will be a chick. And that’s really cool! Why do I think it is cool? Because most developers are not used to seeing women developers in these types of roles. For the most part, the public, technical face of Microsoft [read more…] [A DevLife post] |
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NOT! That’s okay. We’re used to it. Sniff sniff…
However, if you live in a major metro area, there’s a good chance that the .NET Rocks VS2005 Road Trip is hitting your town sometime between Oct 12 and Nov 7th!
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Mike Gunderloy is hosting another developer contest, with a great array of sponsors (read: prizes!). The contest is based on developing something (tool, utility, full app) with VS2005 and submissions are due on the magic day of November 7 (Release Date!)
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Lucky lucky Microsoft. MSDN Canada just snatched up John Bristowe as a Developer Evangelist. I have been constantly impressed by Bristowe since I first met him. He knows it too – I think I embarrass him sometimes. Heh heh heh. John is an awesomely nice person with an amazing brain.
Yeah that’s right – not even on John’s blog. He is way to freakin’ humble. There is one more piece of news I’m still missing out on from him….
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I think this is big in the world of SQL! Bob Beauchemin has joined Kimberly Tripp at SQL Skills!
Bob has authored some of the most detailed indepth technical content on SQL for developers that I have been able to digest. In other words, he knows his stuff and he knows how to communicate it to us poor folks who really need it!
High five, Kimberly!
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