Stephen, Ken and I wandered down to the SweetWater Brewery for their weekly tasting event yesterday. I was blown away by how many people came out for this – maybe 200 to 300 people in total. Stephen and Ken Backstage tour of the giant brewing tanks We even witnessed a couple getting engaged Why...
If anyone doesn't know, the DevCow calendar is actually manually updated every month. I have been updating the calendar for about 3-4 years now every month. The process I take is to go directly to the websites of the user groups that we list on the site and make sure they are having a meeting for...
During last weeks code camp I walked in on the most surprising thing. One of my local friends (we won’t mention names) was reading a new book from one of our publishers. Yes we did get the book for the Atlanta Code Camp and no we don’t know if they knew it was a mostly Microsoft event. We just appreciate...
I don't mean Google Ads or anything like that which would make money for me or this site. Instead I'm talking about the occasional coupon codes and promo deals I get from book publishers and software tools vendors. I was thinking of posting a couple of image links in the right pane of the main DevCow...
Why have I been so quiet on the blog front lately? I'm going to say that it is because I've been working hard for you! This does of course ignore the hours I've poured into playing my Xbox 360 (I've nearly got COD2 beat on Veteran level). Anyway, here is a quick blast about some of the things that I...
Last night seven of us met at the 5 Seasons to talk about everything geeky. We talked about some code (mostly me bringing up my recent issues I've been covering in the blog), cellphones, video games in general, and more. Results of the conversation? The Enterprise Library's data access block code has...
As some of you might have heard, thanks Shawn =), I did receive and accept an MVP for ASP.NET for this year. I would like to personally thank Matt Ranlett for his contributions to my MVP because without him and his help I could not have accomplished what has been done. I would also like to thank someone...