Free is a good price.  If you're looking to increase your skills and value for work, training is always a good way to help you.  Microsoft is providing free virtual labs for you to learn their technologies.  If you work with .NET technologies and spend a lot of time with Visual St... [More]

Angela Benkowski and Paul Hacker gave us a lap around Visual Studio 2010.  The main emphasis seems to be test driven development.  There will be more design tools for Silverlight baked into VS2010.  They have enhanced the dynamically generated architecture diagrams.  That looked ... [More]

Dan Rigsby talked about Oslo.  Oslo is a way to write languages.  It allows DSLs to be created and they can be used to generate code and/or SQL.  I like Dan's speaking ability.  He gets excited and enthusiastic about his topics.  He had demo problems.  His VPC ... [More]

I'm sitting in the 1st Windows Azure presentation.  I still haven't had an "aha" moment.  The speaker (Wade Wegner) is a bit dry.  Doesn't sound real excited about the technology.  It seems like he's just reading a script.  I dont' feel like he&... [More]

Rob Jacobs did the keynote.  He did a nice job.  Nothing jaw-dropping or earth-shattering but he's certianly enthusiastic.  He talked a lot about Azure.  His main point was that we are already very comfortable about leveraging web hosting providers to host our web sites inste... [More]