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Welcome!
--Welcome all speakers and attendees (and groupies) to Cleveland Day of .NET! Please use this site to get to know each other before, during and af...
Poll: Does Cleveland Rock?
--If we were to have a mini stage set up for Guitar Hero or Rockband during lunch, would people participate? Let me know and if the results are posi...
What topics do you want to hear?
--Since the schedule isn't locked down yet, and there are even a couple weeks left to propose a talk, this is a great time to hear what you actually ...
Last Week For Speaker Submissions!
--Ok folks, if you are considering becoming a public speaker, your chance to do so at Cleveland Day of .NET is about to end. The deadline is this we...
Sessions have been announced!
--Head over to the official site and see a list of the speakers and their topics. We will be adding the spiffy Silverlight session scheduler soon as...
Venue is Announced!
--This year the Cleveland Day of .NET will be at the Hilton Cleveland East/Beachwood hotel. Now that you know where it is, there is nothing stopp...
Register!
--If anyone is planning to attend and hasn't gone to the official site (www.clevelanddodn.org) to register, time is running out, there are only a few...
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What I did on My Summer Vacation
--So it's not so much did as still doing but here's just a little update on what I'm up to at the moment, it's quite a bit. Moving Many of you alr...
How to Learn Silverlight
--With a lot of people wanting to learn Silverlight today and not really knowing where to start, I thought I'd write something to help people get st...
What Is Silverlight?
--I've noticed lately that a lot of people seem to have misconceived notions of what exactly Silverlight is and does. I will attempt to explai...
Silverlight 2 In Action - I'm Writing a Chapter!
--So as you all know I've been posting a lot about Silverlight lately. Well not recently as I've been a tad busy. I've been quite lucky t...
Silverlight Installation on Intranet Hosted Applications
--A few months back Tim Heuer wrote up a great post on customizing the Silverlight installation experience. I highly recommend reading his ...
How I got started in software development
--So a twitter friend, Michael Eaton, started something that sounds like fun, and before I could get my answers posted a few others have as well....
Cleveland Day of .NET 2008 is History!
--On Saturday, May 17th, we held the first Cleveland Day of .NET and it was, from all accounts, a success. It sounds like everyone had a good t...
Review: ArcReady 4/30
--So this review is a little late (and a little short) but don't worry, I took notes :). This was Brian Prince's first appearance at an ArcReady eve...
Day of .NET Is Almost Here!
--It's almost here! The first Cleveland Day of .NET is in a week and a half (assuming you read this the day I post it). Everything is m...
Silverlight 2 TextBlock Responds to Mouse Events when Truncated
--ANOTHER UPDATE: I received confirmation from Joe Stegman that yes, this is indeed a bug in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 but has been fixed in the forthcomi...
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Problem with Animations on User Controls
--YET ANOTHER UPDATE: I received confirmation from Joe Stegman that yes, this is indeed a bug in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 but has been fixed in the forth...
Review: Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG 4/22
--Once again this review is coming a couple days late, I'll try to get a little more punctual but since I've been working on that for decades, don't...
Silverlight Session Scheduler at CodePlex
--As many of you know, I am one of a group of local developers that is organizing Cleveland Day of .NET, a free one-day developer conference on May ...
Silverlight 2: Custom Controls vs. User Controls
--In my first post on Silverlight 2 I concentrated on how to use User Controls in a Silverlight application. Since I started writing this post...
Review: Cleveland .NET SIG 4/8
--So I'm a couple days late in writing this, but it's ok, I took notes :). Overall this was a good SIG, would have been better if I actually ca...
Silverlight 2: Simple Animation
--I'm not a designer. Would have trouble even opening a professional design or animation tool. But even I can make animations in Silverli...
Old Code Part 4: I thought it was a Joke
--About three years ago some senior executives at our company were in town for a big planning meeting. As frequently happens during these time...
Review: Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG 3/25
--Last night was the March meeting of the Cleveland C# / VB.NET SIG. It was really the February meeting as well since that was delay multiple ...
Silverlight 2: User Controls and Other Tips
--So I've started working in Silverlight and am completely blown away by it's power and ease of programming. I'm not saying that there isn't a...
Cleveland Day of .NET
--Finally! Cleveland is finally getting a real one-day, free, community driven, developer conference. That's right, clear your calendars for ...
Review: Cleveland Microsoft Launch Event 3/13
--On Thursday was the Microsoft's launch event for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. If you don't know what those t...
Review: Cleveland .NET SIG 3/11
--Last night was good for a lot of reasons, but was lacking in a few others. First the good. The speaker, Miguel Castro, was great. He i...
How Dinosaur Web Developers Can Regain Their Shine: Step 3
--Rebrand Yourself This one some people won't agree with but with new web technologies coming so fast and each having such potential, I think it's t...
No Excuse for JavaScript Errors!
--I've refrained from posting rants to this blog up until now but I feel that this one is very relevant to the topics discussed here. JavaScrip...
Web Accessibility: What does it mean?
--In the first of this series on Web Accessibility I spoke briefly on why we should care about this important topic. Hopefully people don't need rea...
dotTrace is a Wonderful Tool
--Anyone that has done much programming, especially web programming, has from time to time had to look into a performance issue. I have had to ...
Pain in the Neck: Better
--Quick follow-up on the last couple of posts on my neck. I'm better. All better. Well, maybe not ALL better but definitely seriously im...
Poll: What is most important to you in a job?
--The recent rash of people changing jobs has really made me think about reasons to switch jobs and about what makes a job worth the switch. ...
How Dinosaur Web Developers Can Regain Their Shine: Step 2
--Get Involved.That's it. Step two is just to get involved.Ok, there's a little more to it than that, it takes a commitment to stay involved. But l...
Pain in the Neck: Getting Better - Slowly
--So I've been getting asked via numerous channels (twitter, email, in-person) how my neck is and how the Dr. apt went yesterday so here's a quick su...
Web Accessibility: Why should we care?
--Several things have had me thinking a lot about accessibility lately. A number of things all happened at around the same time which brought t...
Old Code Part 3: Serious Hack Job
--For this edition of Old Code I bring up a project I worked on back in 2002 that was a serious hack job. The code was not pretty, the archite...
ArcReady Cleveland - 2/5/08
--This morning was the ArcReady Cleveland event with the topic of Service Lifecycle Management. This is a very valid topic these days with more and m...
Did IBM Kill Bobby?
--Anyone that has had to build an accessible website, pretty much ever, has probably used Bobby. It has been a tool to allow a web developer, home ho...
Pain in the Neck
--For those reading this that are just looking for technical content, this post isn't for you. Nothing to see here. Move along now. ...
Old Code Part 2: XML / XSLT Before it was Cool
--For this issue of Old Code I'll be going way back. Before .NET, before Visual Studio, before broadband. I wrote this app before many of you were ev...
Model Railroads Are For Geeks Too
--Like many people I had toy trains as a kid. It was nothing huge or elaborate but my dad and I (well, mostly my dad as I was about 10) built ...
Old Code Part 1: Plug-In(able) Web Application
--Today I'm starting a series that I'm calling "Old Code". This will be where I go over some project I've worked on that was notable for some r...
New Developer Events in NEO?
--Quick post here... I've been talking with some people lately about getting more developer events up here where we "Get The Shaft". Another activ...
How Dinosaur Web Developers Can Regain Their Shine: Step 1
--Last week I posted that a large number of us that have been web developers since the first Internet boom are becoming dinosaurs. I may have s...
I WILL be an MVP
--Now maybe this isn't a practical goal but I truly think it is possible for me to be named a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET when they are announced in Dec...
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Hey, my Guitar Hero skills are whispered of and spoken about with reverence everywhere.* :)
* within my apartment**
** by me
Sadly enough, I've done enough VBA to talk about it in my sleep :\
But no pics of the tattoo that Michael Eaton speaks of...
I'm fun at parties.
