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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:33 PM

Announcing DevMavens

This month marks the launch of a new site we’ve been working on to help recognize and support a number of influential bloggers in the .NET developer community. Please help me welcome the initial members of the DevMavens ! These bloggers have been invited
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:58 AM

Speaking in Toledo Tonight

I'll be presenting at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group this evening at 6pm. The talk will be a slightly modified version of my Black Belt ASP.NET Performance talk that I gave earlier this month at Tech Ed in Orlando. According to their web site, the
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:03 PM

Going Solo Birds of a Feather Follow Up

Last week I co-hosted a birds-of-a-feather session with Julia Lerman on Going Solo. Julie and I did a similar BOF session a couple of years ago at another TechEd and both times we've gotten a pretty good crowd. In an effort to continue the conversation
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:16 PM

Ohio Day of .NET

Several user groups in southern and central Ohio are putting together a Day of .NET event this spring. The Central Ohio Day of .NET 2008 will take place on 19 April 2008, in Wilmington, Ohio . This was originally the Cincinnati-Dayton Code camp and ran
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:43 PM

Attending CodeMash 2008

I'll be attending CodeMash again for its second year, at the Kalahari Resort in Ohio. Last year it was a great local conference and this year I expect it will be even better. The conference is uniqe in its approach in that it combines a wide variety of
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:49 PM

Facebook and Scoble Square Off

Like so many others have noted, I think 2008 and the next few years will see a shakeup in some of the "web 2.0" and social networking community sites. As evidence of this, I just read that Robert Scoble has run afoul of Facebook for running an automated
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:57 AM

Cool Apps from Microsoft

I attended the Cleveland .NET SIG last night, where Jeff Blankenburg (my new Developer Evangelist ) gave a demo-rich presentation on some cool new(ish) applications Microsoft has been working on this year. Most of them I'd already seen, but it was a good
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Friday, November 02, 2007 2:42 PM

Speaking in Ann Arbor November 14th

I'll be presenting to the Ann Arbor .Net Developer's Group in two weeks on ASP.NET Caching Best Practices . The meeting starts at 6pm at SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor. You can find more information about the group and meeting location here: AADND.org Share
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Monday, May 14, 2007 4:49 PM

Microsoft Fans - Raise Your Hand

I have trouble, as a long time Microsoft developer community member and (dare I say) community leader, believing that someone could miss the fact that there are Microsoft communities and, by extension, community members and fans. I would definitely consider
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Friday, October 13, 2006 9:34 AM

MVPs and Losing or Keeping One's MVPness

Frans Bouma weighed in on the recent discussion revolving around several prominent .NET developer types who did not receive MS MVP awards for this year (awards were given October 1st). If the Microsoft MVP program, or this recent discussion, interests
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