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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:37 PM

Blog Move

Please join me as I move my blog to my own URL, SteveSmithBlog.com . I'll continue to post there about more or less the same things I did here, but with a bit more control over the site layout and other features. The new blog is running on Telligent's
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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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Monday, June 30, 2008 10:43 AM

DevConnections Session Feedback

Last week I just got back my summaries of attendee feedback for my three talks at DevConnections in Orlando in April (yes, they're not quite as efficient as TechEd ). I blogged about them and posted the slides and demos 2 months ago, but I'm finding it
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Monday, June 23, 2008 9:00 AM

Software Books Ordered

I just ordered some more books, on recommendations from a few of my peers. I'll post my thoughts on them once they've arrived and I've had a chance to read them. The Art of Agile Development: James Shore, Shane Warden: Books Lean Software Development:
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:46 AM

Visual Studio Tools

I've been meaning to post something about two awesome and competing toolsets that recently have some news to report. First, my friends at DevExpress won both the Attendee's Pick : Overall Winner and Breakthrough Product awards at Tech:Ed Developers a
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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 17, 2008 10:53 AM

Silverlight Server Configuration

I went to throw a small Silverlight sample application up on a web site to show to a client yesterday and found out the hard way that although it is primarily a client-side technology, it doesn't "just work" when you put the files up on the server. My
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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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Friday, June 06, 2008 10:03 AM

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Talk

I gave my Tech Ed presentation, ASP.NET Black Belt Performance Techniques, yesterday afternoon. The talk was well-attended, with about 300 372in the audience. I gave the talk last month in Cleveland and it was very well-received. I promised attendees
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Monday, June 02, 2008 3:39 PM

Whither NorthWind?

The Ha recently wrote about his desire to get away from NorthWind and perhaps start some community driven effort to come up with something else , mainly, it seemed to me, for the sake of being something else . I must humbly disagree with this, but feel
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Monday, June 02, 2008 1:17 AM

Atlas Tripped Over His Own Feet

Through Lake Quincy Media , we work with a variety of ad management platforms used by our customers. This is a story about Atlas , as told by our CEO Michelle. It is not a pleasant story, as a Microsoft customer and evangelist (Microsoft acquired Atlas
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:30 PM

Customer Service Is Key

A few months ago I went to MIX08 , which was I must say an excellent conference with a very different focus from DevConnections, TechEd, and PDC. However, the weather was against me, and I've been meaning to write about it for some time. Now that I'm
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:41 PM

Tech Ed 2008 Speaker Idol

Next week (and the week after) at Tech Ed, several experienced speakers will compete with one another in Speaker Idol, held at the Tech Ed Online stage during lunch time and hosted by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell . The winner gets a guaranteed speaker
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:02 AM

aspNetPRO 2008 Readers Choice Awards Published

A couple of weeks ago the aspNetPRO magazine's annual Reader's Choice Awards were published in their latest issue. DevExpress swept the awards, winning nine different categories as well as product of the year . I've blogged before about DevExpress and
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:31 PM

GeekFest Party at TechEd 2008 June 3rd

Doug Seven of Microsoft is hosting a party at Howl at the Moon during TechEd on June 3rd. He has some details on his blog and the party will include (and require for admission) a rubber duck competition. You'll need to pick up your duck for admission
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