Last night we had about 60 people at the Atlanta MS Pros user group listening to Jim Wooley talk about the migration path developers currently using Linq to SQL might use to move to the Entity Framework. Jim has some deep history with Ling, including being the coauthor of the Manning Press book Linq...
Don Browning from Turner Broadcasting came out of the fun buildings which bring you the Cartoon Network (and those other channels) to talk to the group about the new architecture features of Visual Studio 2010. Those changes include: 6 new designers case model – a visual view of user stories (including...
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...
SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Level 100 is happening TONIGHT at the Microsoft offices in Alpharetta. Pizza is scheduled for delivery at 6:00 PM and the presentation should begin at 6:30 PM. We'd love to see all of you there! If you would like to come, please register so that we can get an accurate count and order...
I couldn't resist the title! Sorry Jim! Jim Wooley is one of three Atlanta Code Camp presenters whose presentations were recorded. Jim gave a great presentation on LINQ and you can now watch the video here . Everyone say "Thanks!" to Jim Minatel from Wrox for hosting the video.
May 3rd has officially been dubbed "Speech Server Day" here in Atlanta. Well...OK - not actually "officially". However, if you're interested in applications that you can talk to and can actually understand and talk back, check out the in town event at the Microsoft offices. Click here to register
Have you watched latest Code Room video yet? This is a "professionally" produced movie featuring the likes of Keith Brown (who I met at Tech Ed 2005) as they have pretend hackers break in and then a security swat team fixing the holes. Sweet sidenote - they shoot a scene at the Peppermill fireside lounge...
Microsoft runs an annual high school outreach program to teach kids software engineering by building them into a project group to build their own "Hunt the Wumpus" game. This year it's being brought to Atlanta, starting with the St. Pius X high school in northeast Atlanta. A group of 9 students will...
Microsoft is looking for some local software folks to work with area high school kids taking AP Computer Science courses. They're looking to take the most gifted students, put them together in a project team, and build a Hunt the Wumpus application. Sue from Microsoft put a call for help on the DevCow...