Shirley Brothers (DevConnections Goddess) just emailed me to tell me we are 78 people short of 5,000 attendees for the upcoming DevConnections conferences in Las Vegas. Once again, this will be a dynamite show in Sin City. If you haven't heard, there will be nine shows co-hosted at the same conference center. Register for one and attend all ...

I invite you to submit abstracts for the Spring 2008 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference, to be held in Orlando, April 20-24th. Abstracs are due by Oct 26th, 2008. The conference will take place shortly after the VS 2008 release, and will focus on the tools and techniques for using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (which should be released ...

I just uploaded my slides and samples for my Programming SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services talk at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections last week in sunny Orlando. This talk focused on programming SSRS using:URL access.SSRS Web Service.SSRS Report Viewer controls.Custom Assemblies You can find the slides and samples at ...

This a revision to prior postings of my ASP.NET Data Controls Tips & Tricks talk. This time for my talk at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections March, 2007 in sunny Orlando. Includes a few new samples:Cascading drop-downs inside of a Form View (harder than you think). Server side example.Object Data Source control example with data source ...

We are now accepting abstracts for the Fall DevConnections shows being held in Las Vegas in November 5-8, 2007. Abstracts will be accepted through the end of February. If you are interested in submitting abstracts, please goto http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts/ create a new speaker record and submit at least 3 abstracts. ...

As one of my jobs as Conference Chair, twice a year, I put out a "call for abstracts" for people looking to apply to be a speaker at a Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. In the past, people just emailed me to let me know they were interested but I finally have put up a page where you can go to put yourself on the list to be contacted when ...

This is to let everyone know that we are currently accepting abstracts to speak at the next Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. The event will be held in Orlando, FL, USA from March 25-29. Here's the deal:It's pretty competitive but you won't ever have the chance to speak unless you try.If selected, your airfare and hotel accomodations ...

Last night the Microsoft MVP program had a great reception for MVPs. Food, drink, and most importantly great networking with fellow MVPs and MVP leads. Today, I am parked in the speaker lounge working on my laptop. <duh> A nice perk that Shirley Brothers (the woman behind the conference) has arranged for speakers this time: free massages in ...

When It Rains... Not only is it raining like heck back home in Seattle, but now I learn our major app on which I am the project lead was down all day. Yikes, Hopefully, I can log in and fix it remotely. Published with blogmailr

Over 130 atendees survived a day with me delivering my ASP.NET 2.0 JumpStart Workshop at DevConnections. Thankfully, I had three esteemed proctors who helped a lot: Stephen Walther, Alex Homer, and Dave Sussman. Thank you everyone who attended. I will be posting a couple of updated samples shortly to the downloads area on my site at ...