I'm at CodeMash today and Scott Hanselman gave the afternoon keynote on IIS7 mashups.  The talk was preceded by a very funny introduction Scott gave that introduced me to the LOLCode.NET language with the help of some LOLCats and humorous sample code.  The talk focused on how to hook up a PHP application in IIS7, and then enhance it with ...

I found out that I should be speaking at the DevConnections show this fall.  The show is being held in Las Vegas again, November 5–8th.  I apologize to anybody that had hoped to see me present last month in Orlando at the spring show – I was unfortunately out of the country due to circumstances beyond my control (but which ...

Join Scott Guthrie, myself, and numerous other MVPs for a live chat this evening sponsored by StrongCoders.  The chat starts at 8pm EST this evening, 16 February ...

I’m planning on attending MIX this year – last year I had to miss out due to an earlier speaking commitment.  This year’s event will be held at the Venetian in Las Vegas.  Here’s some more info: Registration opened today the Microsoft MIX07. This is public news that you can blog.   This event is geared ...

VS 2005 SP1 coming soon (end of year, hopefully).  Will include:2200+ bug fixesBuilt-in Web Application Project supportGDRs are public fixes (patch rollups) that include rollups of QFEs – GDRs are similar to service packs but service packs affect support (Microsoft supports the latest service pack and the previous service pack, but ...

I’ll be speaking at the Arizona .NET user group on 7 March 2007 about Caching and Performance.  More information here.  The session’s description is: This session focuses on fundamentals of performance and scalability design, testing, and optimization, with an emphasis on distributed architectures and data driven ...

Got back home last night from DevConnections in Las Vegas.  It was a very good show this year in terms of content, products being launched, and numbers of attendees and exhibitors.  I think I had more people in my sessions than usual, too, and they all went well (i.e. the demos worked, nobody threw tomatoes at me). The keynote on Monday ...

I gave a presentation on Atlas to the Central Ohio .NET User Group last night.  About 50 people were in attendance and I thought the presentation went pretty well, especially considering it was my first time presention on this subject.  I’ve posted my slides and samples on the ASPAlliance Resource Directory – the direct link ...

I’m giving a presentation on Atlas tomorrow (Thursday July 27th) in Columbus, Ohio.  Stop by if you’re interested.  Here’s more information about the time/place/details. http://www.condg.org/

Here’s a list of a bunch of webcasts that are coming up in the next few months (starting next week), related to ASP.NET:   Date Title Speaker Registration URL 25-Jul ASP.NET: An Overview of ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation Integration Kashif Alam Click here 3-Aug ASP.NET: Building Real-World ...