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• Congrats INETA Community Champions!

  Congratulations to SCD Community Champions Tim Tyrrell, Brandon King, Ben Sheirman and Becky Isserman! The Community Champion Award program is an excellent way to recognize the movers and shakers in your local community.  They give you a place to... Posted May 27 2009, 06:14 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Community, awards, ineta

• User Group Radio | Bringing community leaders together...

  Jay Smith, one of the awesome community leaders in Northwest Arkansas, has created a new podcast series called User Group Radio .  The idea behind this podcast series is best summed up by jay Smith in the first UGR blog post: Over the last several... Posted Jan 08 2009, 07:10 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, UserGroups, podcast, arkansas

• Come to MDC Dallas and See Me Shave My Head!

  That’s right – you heard right!  I’m issuing a challenge to all the architects, DBAs, enthusiasts, and professional software developers in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas… If we can get 750 people registered to attend the MSDN Developer Conference... Posted Dec 18 2008, 05:47 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, .NET, Community, Fun, AJAX, ASP.NET, Events, Mesh, PDC, event, azure, cloud, mdc, bald

• Upcoming Events in South Central – 11/7/08

  Now that the election is over, and gas prices have started to go down ($1.95 a gallon here in Dallas!) it’s time to get back out on the road and attend some great User Group meetings!  Here’s what’s on tap for the rest of November here in SCD: Tuesday... Posted Nov 07 2008, 10:07 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Community, Events

• Tulsa TechFest - Recap

  Last week at this time I was sitting in my hotel room in Tulsa amazed at how AWESOME the 3rd annual Tulsa TechFest had turned out.  I personally had given two talks back-to-back on How to Add Style to Your WPF and Silverlight Applications, and had... Posted Oct 16 2008, 11:15 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Community, Events, Tulsa, TechFest, tulsatechfest

• MSDN TechDays is Coming to Dallas!

  Are you ready for a GeekFest?  We’re pulling out all the stops to make the next MSDN event a memorable one!  MSDN TechDays is a three-day geek-out covering a variety of topics for ITPros, Developers and Architects.  We’re holding the first... Posted Oct 06 2008, 12:43 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Visual Studio, SQLServer, WPF, Silverlight, Vista, Dallas, Office, Community, MSDN, VSTO, Events, sql, ux, Architecture, mobile, event, winforms, patterns, techdays, interop

• Pablo’s Day of TDD

  The nice folks down in San Antonio and Austin have asked me to make sure and mention their upcoming mega-fantastic event – Pablo’s Day of TDD, a.k.a. PDoTDD.  PDoTDD is a day-and-a-half event of workshops, discussion, practice, and training around... Posted Sep 26 2008, 03:53 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Community, Events, San Antonio, Austin, tdd, unittesting

• The night was humid…

  … so we spent it at a local .NET User Group meeting!  If you’re looking for one, you can always check http://www.codezone.com , http://www.southcentraldevelopers.com or this blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig .  Here is the list of upcoming... Posted Sep 12 2008, 05:28 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, .NET, User Groups, Community, UserGroups, Events, oklahoma, louisiana, texas, arkansas

• Adding Style to WPF and Silverlight Apps at DDNUG

  I had a great time speaking at the Dallas .NET User Group meeting last night on WPF and Silverlight Styles, Templates and Data Binding.  I’ve posted the slides up on Slideshare and the demos (with the pptx) out on FolderShare .  Here are the... Posted Sep 12 2008, 11:34 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, WPF, Silverlight, Dallas, .NET, User Groups, Community, AJAX, ASP.NET, C#, VisualStudio, Expression, Events, Web, ux, vs08sp1, Entity Framework, blend

• MSDN Unleashed and ArcReady

  Not sure if everyone is subscribed to the MSDN Flash or not, but if you’re not – it is a GREAT resource for finding out what’s happening in your area.  I like the fact that it’s customized to show events and happenings in your geography (my copy... Posted Sep 10 2008, 08:51 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Training, Visual Studio, SQL Server, WPF, Dallas, .NET, Community, MSDN, AJAX, WCF, ASP.NET, LINQ, vsts, Events, Houston, Austin, Web, Architecture, arcready, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, S+S

• OKC Developer Group Presentation – Next Gen Web Apps

  I had a great time last night at the OKC Developer Group meetings.  I love presenting there because you actually get to do 2 presentations – one at lunch (there was about 85 people in attendance) and one at dinner (about 15 people).  That’s... Posted Sep 09 2008, 11:16 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Vista, .NET, Windows Live, User Groups, Community, AJAX, WCF, ASP.NET, C#, LINQ, vsts, Launch, Web, Travel, 35sp1, ADO.NET, vs08sp1, Entity Framework, Oklahoma City

• MVP Raymond Lewallen at NDDNUG

  Microsoft MVP Raymond Lewallen is coming to the North Dallas .NET User Group on Wednesday, September 10th at 6:00 PM to present an in-depth look at Behavior Driven Development (BDD). BDD is driven by business value!   The practices of BDD include... Posted Sep 03 2008, 11:36 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Dallas, .NET, User Groups, Community, Events, usergroup, event, dfw, nddnug

• More Upcoming Events – ArcReady and MSDN Unleashed!

  In addition to the list I posted the other day, I also want to call out a couple of new and improved event series that we’ll be hosting over the next year.  We’re combining ArcReady and MSDN Events into a one day technical extravaganza, with ArcReady... Posted Aug 19 2008, 10:56 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Visual Studio, Dallas, .NET, Community, MSDN, Events, Houston, Austin, arcready

• My Recent Trip to Poland

  I want to extend a HUMONGUS THANK YOU to my new friends in Poland for allowing me to travel out there a few weeks ago and meet with so many wonderful people in their community.  I had a great time travelling to and speaking at 5 different cities... Posted Jun 17 2008, 09:21 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, Poland, Microsoft, Events

• .NET Rocks! Interview from Dallas TechFest is LIVE

  The first session of the morning in the .NET Track at Dallas TechFest this year was a panel discussion on Building Communities hosted by our frieds Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks!   The panel consisted of Toi Wright (ASP.NET MVP... Posted May 23 2008, 01:21 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, DallasTechFest, UserGroups, Events, dnr