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Our annual (or mostly annual) conference is coming up in Janaury. I’m really excited about our set of speakers. Including: Adam Steltzner from NASA’s Mars Curiosity . Felicity Aston the first woman in the world to ski across Antarctica alone. Really, we have too many great speakers to list...
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Chocolatey was just featured on LifeHacker! http://lifehacker.com/5942417/chocolatey-brings-lightning-quick-linux+style-package-management-to-windows I was ecstatic to hear about this, of course now I need to write an actual comparison between chocolatey and other windows package managers. Comments on...
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Last weekend I went up to Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids and had the opportunity to do two presentations, one on NuGet and one known as the Automation Tools Roundup. ICC is one of my favorite conferences every year. It is twice a year and I try to make it to at least one of them. The people that...
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It appears that my work in the community and the nominations received from others has secured my status as an MVP for a second year. Thank you all for the award and thank you everyone (including Microsoft) for valuing my contributions to the community. I noticed last year I did quite a bit of travelling...
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Recently we had a contest to see who could beat my time to get from no code to deployed. Thanks to everyone that participated and everyone that thought about participating in the contest. Most Creative From Zero To Deployed Contest Extended! Unfortunately there were not enough entries to award the most...
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Do you have what it takes to meet the challenge? We’ll make it worth it. You may have noticed at the end of my last post I threw down the community challenge to get from zero to deployed faster than me. The Challenge My time was 13:48 to be from zero to deployed. Beat my time and show it in a video response...
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Recently I was able to attend and speak at Heartland Developer Conference (HDC). This was my first time at the conference and it went smoothly for me. I was able to attend most of the sessions and had a great time! I had a session on Database Change Management w/RoundhousE ! It went really well, I was...
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Yesterday I attended KCDC in Kansas City. It was a great time and I had the opportunity to spend time with people much smarter than me. Even with all of the people I already know, I met quite a few new people during the day long conference. I gave a talk on RoundhousE . If you attended that presentation...
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Right now I’m on the train on my way back from Chicago. It’s interesting to be drinking a Corona and hanging out in the lounge while I’m watching the miles go by. Chicago was a nice time. I had never been so we decided to vacation in Chicago and see the sites – posts coming at the other blog . My presentation...
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Last weekend I had the opportunity to give back to the community doing what I love. As geeks we don’t usually have this opportunity. The event is called Coders For Charities (C4C) and it’s a grueling weekend of coding for nearly 30 hours over the weekend. When you finish you get to present to the charity...
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Tonight (February 24th, 2010) I’m going to be giving a presentation on UppercuT (UC) at Virtual Alt.NET (VAN). If you are interested in learning about an automated build tool that will save you time and get you to a professional build in moments, not days, you can log into the VAN around 8PM CST on Wednesday...
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August 20th, Case Study: Silver Arcade Orlando .NET User Group (ONETUG) This will mostly be Rob , but I’m tagging along to offer witty banter. We’ll be discussing how we built Silver Arcade using ASP.NET MVC, Azure, NHibernate, jQuery, and more. August 29th , Source Control with Subversion Jacksonville...
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The new year has already gotten away from me and it's only 7 days old. ( Come back, Baby Happy! ) In less than 2 weeks from now, we're going to a have full day of TDD in Tampa, FL. The event is designed so that everyone will find value, whether you are merely curious about methodology or a veteran...