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I finally decided on titles and abstracts for my Winter/Spring presentations last week and started lining up events. This season will feature a lot of mobile related topics, some jQuery and Azure. Things are going to kick off in nice, sunny and warm Ft. Lauderdale’s South Florida Code Camp on February 12th. This is my tentative schedule for the ...

I am very excited about the next couple of weeks because I will have a great opportunity to meet some folks and talk about some things I really love. Starting tomorrow night I will be speaking at the Deerfield Beach FL (my operating base for the past year) Coders Café on the new jQuery Templating and DataLinking plugins. This weekend is the ...

Yesterday I gave a new presentation to the Philly Code Camp on Mobile Web Development. I have posted my slide deck on SlideShare.com if you want to see the deck. The 10 Things I discuss and demonstrate in this talk are: Why Mobile Web Determine Content Understand The Viewport Progressive Enhancement Understand HTML Use List ...

Last week I wrote about voting for my MIX sessions, and if you have not voted for me, then why not? Go now and vote, you can come back afterwards and keep reading, I’ll wait. Meanwhile I wanted to publish my upcoming speaking dates. I am going to be at the Southern California Code Camp the weekend of Jan 30th at Cal St Fullerton. Next month I am ...

I am a tightwad when it comes to money and I am proud of it. I listen to Clark Howard and Dave Ramsey all the time, you should too; Rice and Beans Beans and Rice FTW!! Anyway, I love to travel, which is why I love speaking at Code Camps and User Groups. I have not had much budget for real travel though, but have made a lot of events in the past ...

I have a new talk I am giving this Fall at user groups called Bigger, Stronger, Faster : Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free. The premise behind the talk is really an answer to a common question I get, ‘How do you create web sites so fast?’. I have thought about this a lot over recent years and reviewed a lot of lessons I have ...

I have sort of taken a hiatus from the speaking circuit for most of the year. But now the Fall is approaching I thought I would publish my tentative upcoming speaking engagements. I have not officially received confirmation or even submitted sessions to all of the events, so this may change. Aug 13 – Fayetteville NC User Group Sept. 19 ...

So I know this is very late, but all day today is the Raleigh Code Camp. I will presenting my n-Tier architecture with Entity Framework with the Beer House. We have some very smart presenters that I consider to be some of the best gurus in so many aspects of our world. Karl Shifflett, the father of Mole, XAML PowerToys, Ocean and member of the WPF ...

I will be presenting an introduction to the Entity Framework and the Beer House this Saturday at the Richmond Code Camp. I have been very busy with the Beer House application, Entity Framework, ASP.NET AJAX, CSS Layouts and much more the past 2 months and it will be wonderful to get out a little and share what I have learned. This presentation ...

This weekend was a great weekend for .NET developers in the Smoky Mountains as CodeStock rocked the mountains. There were several hundred passionate geeks that came out to Pellissippi State to learn, socialize and have an all around good times, and I guess a few wanted the Master Chief helmet too! I really want to give a special thanks for ...