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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 Regional Director from Norway, decided that Kuler was just too cool not to play with via its ...

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 and to some extent designers and database professionals. They are delivered by your local ...

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 forward, as well as with the ASP.NET MVC Framework when it ships. Rather than build redundant ...

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 Geocoding, RSS, and Mapping, Oh My! – Wednesday, September 10th, 9:45-11:00am ...

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, 2008, 10:00 PM - 2:00 PM Social Time starts at 9:45 AM! Who: Andy ...

Great idea from Chris Williams and the Twin Cities XNA User Group: The Twin Cities XNA User Group is throwing their first ever charity event! Admission to this event is $10 (ten bucks!!) and that covers entry into what just might be the biggest Halo 3 tournament you've ever seen. We'll also have a room set aside for Rock Band 2 and of course ...

My fellow developer evangelist, Chris Bowen, along with co-authors Steve Resnick and Rich Crane, appears on the latest episode of ARCast.TV, discussing their book Essential WCF: ARCast.TV - Essential WCF </P

Excellent news from Nic Fillingham: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacuring and is available NOW for your downloading pleasure via the Microsoft Download Center. Power Pack 1 includes a bunch of new features, enhancements and bug fixes: - Support for Windows Vista 64 bit - Home Server Shared Folder ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so): Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:30 PM: Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting - This month MAPAMDUG presents their Heroes Happen Here community launch [ Event Details | Map | Add to Calendar ] Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:00 PM: DC ALT.NET Meeting ...

Here's a list of upcoming user group meetings in Mid-Atlantic, via Community Megaphone: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:00 PM: RVSPUG: June Meeting - SharePoint Integration with Project - Matthew Harrison, MBA, PMP, MCTS - is able to present for our June meeting. He will present on SharePoint integration with Microsoft Project via Project Web ...