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Yesterday, the first ever TechMixer University was held at the BJCC. Hats off to the organizers of the event. It seemed to be very well planned and coordinated. Everyone that I spoke with was enjoying themselves. I hope there will be more of these events...
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There will be a special presentation by Sara Ford on Monday, August 25th about Visual Studio IDE Tips and Tricks. For those of you that don’t know, Sara Ford maintains the popular blog Visual Studio Tip of the Day and works on the CodePlex team...
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On Tuesday, August 19th, TechMixer University will be held in Birmingham, AL. This will be a large community driven training event that covers a wide spectrum of technologies. The organizers have strived to offer a little something...
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In case you haven't heard, Microsoft has formally announced plans to provide a service pack (SP1) for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 by the end of the year. There is a long list of items that will be included, but the most notable one to...
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In case you haven't heard, it was formally announced that a new release of BizTalk Server 2006 is being planned to provide better support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and .NET Framework 3.5. Here are the major highlights: New web service...
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Next week, the annual Microsoft MVP Summit will be held in Seattle. The event runs for four days and will be split between the Washington Convention Center and Microsoft's campus in Redmond. The majority of my focus will be on Oslo. At this point...
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Between work and stuff going on in my personal life, there hasn't been a lot of spare time for blogging and developer community things over the last few weeks. Hopefully, that will be changing in the near future. In the meantime, I wanted to squeeze...
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The last time that I purchased a computer was 2003. I bought all the parts and built my own gargantuan desktop, which has been my faithful servant for the nearly five years. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Although...
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In .NET 3.0, WCF did not have any built-in support for syndication feeds, such as RSS and ATOM. As a result, it was necessary to roll your own solution anytime you wanted to render a syndication feed from your service. While this wasn't an incredibly...
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Due to the persistence of Keith Elder , he has managed to convince several of the speakers at Alabama Code Camp to either sign up for Twitter or start using it again. Some of the suckers that fell into the trap include Robert Cain (Arcane Code), Todd...