Slides: Real World Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight
October 12, 2010 Category: News No Comments »
Here are the slides from the presentation that Caleb gave at the North TX Silverlight User Group yesterday.
If you can make it to Tulsa next month, we’ll be there to hear Caleb give an enhanced version of this talk at the Tulsa Tech Fest on November 12th. This is the 5th year of the Tulsa Tech Fest – it’s always a packed event and a lot of fun. If you can make it, be sure to stop by and say hi!
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
Mentoring – a new business… and speaking!
May 12, 2010 Category: Events, News 4 Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog so I thought that I should catch everyone up to speed. I gave Six Flags my two week notice 3 weeks ago.. and started a new company last week. Someone asked me how long it took me to put together my new company, 20 years of hard work. 
Introducing Proaction Mentors… although it really could be written with an optional plural form:
Proaction Mentor(s)
Obviously this is something that I’m extremely excited about! I’m also super busy with billable client work and speaking engagements (all good problems to have!) I’ll be blogging about Proaction more in the weeks to come, especially as the website launches, the business plan solidifies, and new announcements develop! (Stay up to date by Like’ing Proaction on Facebook and following us on twitter.
In the mean time – I hope to see you at some of these upcoming events!
Improving’s Agile .NET Conf – Improving Enterprises (my good friends and former employer) hosted the Agile .NET Conference at Microsoft again this year. I was honored to be the only non-Improving person invited to speak! – April 30th
Dallas .NET User Group’s Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch! – to celebrate the RTM (release to market) of Visual Studio 2010, the Dallas .NET UG is having an all out bash… 8 speakers in 1 night! Come see my talk:
Silverlight 4 – World Domination! – May 13
Big (D)esign Conference is happening again! This time it’s over twice as BIG as last year! Seriously, my hat goes off to the organizers and the local DFW UPA! That put together an amazing conference last year that I was excited to be a part of (Silverlight 3: Bringing Back the Sexy) and this year, they’ve more that doubled the size and scope. Amazing! Hope you can make my strategic talk on “The 10 Practices that every developer should start right now”. – May 28th & 29th
Dallas Tech Fest – What could be better than last year’s inaugural Tech Fest in Dallas? Why, the second year of Tech Fest of course! Tech Fests are unique in the way that they specifically work to pull in technologies from various stacks… not just .NET – expect to see .NET, Ruby, Java, Silverlight, Flex, iPhone development as well as a healthy open conference style area. I was a little crazy and submitted 5 different talks to this event, I’m certain I won’t do all of them… but I’m looking forward to seeing what Tim picks!- July 30th
Update: This just in.. there is a “rumor” that I might present at a two day work shop style event in Dallas some time in June. Stay tuned!
CommunityCast goes live! Sort of.
February 20, 2007 Category: News 2 Comments »
CommunityCast TV is a project that I initiated right when I left Microsoft. The idea is to have informal interviews with people in the community. It sort of follows the format of Channel 9, except that Channel 9 is all focused on stuff that happens in Redmond, and we are focusing on everything else. It’s like Channel 9, for the rest of us! When I attend an event, I’m trying to focus on the event, rather than any single presenter, so I try to grab interviews with the presenters, organizers and attendees of events.
So far, we’ve interview people at the North Dallas .NET Users Group, BarCampDallas and the pre-BarCampDallas Pre-Mixer, the OKC Vista Launch, the Chicago Expression Launch and the DemoCampDallas.
Mr Media man and Pod Casting Extraordinaire himself, Giovanni Galluci, has posted the first two (pilot) episodes of CommunityCast.tv on a temporary holding spot off of Media Swamp.We’re still very early in the show development. We still don’t have an official logo and the sort of thing set up! We’ll have all of that set up soon enough.
Go check out the first two episodes, and then let me know what you like, what you’d like to see more of and what you’d like to see done differently! Also, we did a different intro song on the two episodes; I’d love to know what you think of the audio clips and which one you like best. Thanks! I’m looking forward to hearing back from everyone… and to seeing you out in the community!
Some of the places that we’ve been, and are going to soon:
This Month:
Next Month:
By the way, all 5 of these are in the same week! I’m going to have to catch up on sleep after that!
