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I am happy to announce that I’m joining Microsoft on their Developer & Platform Evangelism team as a Developer Evangelist for the New York City metro area! If you’re unfamiliar with the Developer & Platform teams and what role they play in the
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Per Rob Caron , the new release date for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 is: April 12th, 2010! (h/t John Blumenauer on Twitter ) Also, I’ve updated my Silverlight Countdown widget to reflect the new date…if you’re hosting the widget, please
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As some of you may be aware, I run a humble site called Community Megaphone whose purpose is to help promote and discover developer and IT pro events in your local community. Late last year, I was approached by Dane Morgridge , with a proposal for a podcast
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Do you code PHP? Would you like to win a 52” Digital HD home entertainment system, plus an all-expenses paid trip to Chicago for php|tek 2010? Or an XBOX 360? I thought so…then listen up. Head over to http://phparch.com/win , and find out all the details,
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From my colleague Ashish Jaiman …be sure to head over to Ashish’s blog for the full details : With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks ( CRM Reston , CRM Boston , Win 7 Irvine , Mobility Mountain View ), we are pleased to announce Microsoft
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Just a quick blog to say I finally have Live Writer setup to post computer technology related posts to http://weblogs.asp.net/kbarrows now. I still have a few things to get setup like publishing images and files and such but that will fall in place...(
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Hard to believe, but I’ve been at this job for 5 years as of today. I’ve definitely had my ups and downs as a Developer Evangelist, but it’s a measure of how great this job is that it hardly seems possible that 5 years have passed already. I am enormously
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The Silverlight 3 SDK and Tools are now available . Here’s the scoop: This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 3. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer
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Unfortunately have some bad news to share. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to cancel our Richmond, VA (3/10) and Roanoke, VA (3/26) MSDN Roadshow stops. Folks who registered should be receiving an email informing them of the cancellation. I’ll
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Here’s Phil Haack’s announcement , in part: At long last I am happy, relieved, excited to announce the release candidate for ASP.NET MVC . Feel free to go download it now (NOTE: The download page is having technical difficulties, so I linked to the MSI
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If you’ve attended one of Frank La Vigne ’s talks on design for developers, you’ve probably heard of the Adobe Kuler website/tool. It’s a great tool for quickly finding (or building) a ‘theme’ of colors that work well together. Jonas Follesø, a Microsoft
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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:00 AM: MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - MSDN Roadshow is a series of local Microsoft MSDN events for developers, architects
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Are you an ASP.NET developer torn between the built-in support for ASP.NET AJAX, and the richness of the jQuery AJAX library? Well I have good news for you. Scott Guthrie announced today that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio moving
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Why do I have the Beastie Boys running through my head this morning? Oh yeah, it’s because I’ll be in Brooklyn, NY this week for VSLive! New York . I’m doing two sessions: Controlling AJAX when You’re Out of Control – Monday, September 8th, 1:45-3:00pm
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The Richmond community is celebrating the launch of SQL Server 2008 with their Community Launch Event featuring information on SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Food, fun, giveaways, and best of all, free education! When: Saturday, August 16th,
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