In just 10 days (May 10th, 2008), TECHbash 2008 will kick off in northeastern Pennsylvania.  The show has been around since 2005 and will include several hundred developers, IT professionals, and industry experts from PA and surrounding states.  Joe Stagner from Microsoft will be giving the keynote and my company, Lake Quincy Media, is ...

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 in 2006-2007, but now includes a Columbus, OH group and so has been renamed.  ...

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'm planning to attend MIX 2008, in its third year and being held at the Venetian in Las Vegas once more.  The site has started a weekly podcast called The Signal that you can subscribe to and learn about behind-the-scenes preparations for MIX08.  The show includes interviews with speakers, staff, attendees, and other ...

I arrived in Orlando last night.  I’m staying at the Disney Swan (and Dolphin).  I’m planning on making it to Palermo’s Party this evening, though I may be late as I have other engagements.  I’m looking forward to meeting up with a lot of friends this week, since I had to miss the spring DevConnections show ...

I’ll be in Moscow next Monday, presenting to a .NET user group there.  The topic will be .NET Caching Best Practices.  The meeting place and time are as follows: Moscow dot NET Alliance (MDNA) Group Microsoft Russia, Building 1, 17 Krylatskaya Str., Moscow, Russia 19.00 May 7, 2007 Thanks to Gaidar Magdanurov, Microsoft DE for ...

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 ...

Well, to start, Josh Holmes has said he’ll shave his head if Technorati has indexed at least 500 codemash blog posts by the end of the show this evening.  So, this will bring him 0.2% closer to that… I didn’t make it to CodeMash quite as early as I’d have liked, but I did have the opportunity to use the water park ...

What's that you say?  Ohio has no tech conferences?  Well, we do now!  Register quickly for CodeMash, happening next week in Sandusky, Ohio (not too far from Michigan and Indiana). CodeMash