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Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:59 PM

Calling All DevConnections Bloggers!

Okay, with the conference about a week away, it's time to let everyone know that I will be happy to link to any speaker, attendee, or exhibitor blog that has something to say about DevConnections Las Vegas 2005 . So please email me and let me know about
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Friday, October 28, 2005 9:36 PM

Finally Booked My Flight to Vegas

Can you believe it? Here I am conference chair and the show is starting in about 9 days and I just booked my flight to the event. I guess I've just been soooo busy. As I write this, I am supposed to be finishing up my materials for my ASP.NET 2.0 hands-on
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:47 PM

Paul Mooney Blogs About C++ Connections

Paul Mooney blogged recently about Charles Petzold and the fact that he is keynoting at DevConnections in Vegas. As you probably know, Charles Petzold is pretty much a god in the Microsoft developer community and his keynote should be great. In fact,
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:28 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Hands-On Workshop

In addition to being conference chair and speaker, I am running a full-day pre-conference workshop on ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 on November 7. Here is the description of the workshop: APR201: Hands-On ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (Bring
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Monday, October 17, 2005 4:29 AM

More Speakers Blog

Forgot to note Julie Lerman's blogging on DevConnections. Julie talks about her C# for VB developers session in this post . She also made some good obervations on women speakers , and the lack thereof at technical conferences such as DevConnections. We
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:20 PM

Speakers Blog About the Las Vegas Show in November

Several DevConnections speakers have recently blogged about the show, their sessions, etc. These include Dan Wahlin , our Microsoft ASP.NET Connections XML/SOA expert. Another popular speaker, Don Kiely , who's repertoire is amazing (his interests include
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:53 PM

Not Quite Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe

So here I sit dreading having to "reject" a bunch of great speakers for the Spring 2006 show in Orlando. That's right, currently I am poring through submitted abstracts trying to come up with the final set of speakers and sessions for a show that is happening
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 4:30 AM

Putting on DevConnections, Part 1

So what is involved in putting on a conference? In a word (okay two words), a lot ! The process goes something like this (I'm leaving out a number of steps, but we have to start somewhere): About 9-12 months before the conference, our conference CEO,
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Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:40 AM

Bleeding Edge and Best Practices

The DevConnections family of conferences have a knack for mixing together exciting sessions on new bleeding edge technologies with best practice talks on established, mature technologies. Examples of sessions at the bleeding edge: Developing Rich Web
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Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:27 AM

Speakers, smeekers

What makes a DevConnections conference tick? It's the speakers. And our lineup stacks up pretty darn good compared to any other show out there. Speakers like... Scott Guthrie (the father of ASP.NET) Dino Esposito Juval Lowy Dan Wahlin Stephen Walther
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Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:15 AM

Why attend DevConnections Las Vegas?

Just a few reasons to attend this show: Register for one show (Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, or C++ Connections) and attend sessions in any of the other three conferences for no extra charge.
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