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• Windows Phone 7 BootCamp Coming Soon!

  Start Dreaming. Start Building. There has been a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement in the developer community as we get ready to launch Windows Phone 7. There have been over 300,000+ downloads of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools as developers... Posted Sep 01 2010, 11:56 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, Houston, Tulsa, Austin, development, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, Little Rock, wp7, wp7dev, BootCamp

• NWA CodeCamp

  Saturday, October 23, 2010 – http://nwacodecamp.org In the fine tradition of other great CodeCamp events across the world, the Northwest Arkansas developer community has announced their next CodeCamp, scheduled for October 23rd at the Tyson World... Posted Aug 05 2010, 03:19 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Events, CodeCamp, nwa, development, arkansas, cloud, ITPro, HoL, HandsOnLabs

• Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp

  Are you ready to gain access to the latest tools, turning your hobby into a source of revenue, or expand your network? Stop dreaming. Start building. Join us for a new series of Windows Phone 7 Bootcamps where you can get an inside track on how to be... Posted Jul 30 2010, 02:55 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, Houston, Tulsa, Austin, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, Little Rock

• CodeJam Comes to NWA

  In case you’ve been living under a rock, you might not know that the Northwest Arkansas area hosts an AMAZING developer community that has become exceptionally active over the last 2-3 years. Along with this week’s NWA TechFest, This weekend will host... Posted Jul 06 2010, 12:08 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, nwa, arkansas

• NWA TechFest is Almost Here!

  The time has come to add another fine event to the TechFest family – Northwest Arkansas TechFest 2010   Scheduled for Thursday, July 8th at the Center for Nonprofits in Rogers, Arkansas, NWA TechFest is a community-organized, community-staffed technical... Posted Jun 16 2010, 01:57 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, nwa, development, arkansas, TechFest, cloud, ITPro, wp7

• ugMIX 2010 Tour Started

  Did you get to attend MIX 2010?  If so, I know you found it to be full of great information about our latest and greatest web technologies, and gave you some great insight into where some of our tools and technologies are headed. But what if you... Posted Mar 26 2010, 05:59 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, VisualStudio, Events, MIX, InternetExplorer, Conference, user group, development, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, VisualStudio2010, IE9, windowsphone7series, IE, OData, wp7, ugMIX

• Cool Upcoming Events

  There are quite  a few interesting (and cool) events coming up in SCD over the next couple of weeks… Check these out, mark your calendars and let ALL your friends know about them! Launch Event – Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010 and SQL Server 2008... Posted Feb 08 2010, 07:23 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Launch, Events, arkansas, Little Rock

• #ugPDC visits Northwest Arkansas

  Attention all you peeps in Ft. Smith, Fayetteville, Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale and surrounding areas!  Tonight and tomorrow night are the first parts of my 2010 #ugPDC tour.  Visiting the FSDNUG tonight and the NWADNUG tomorrow night, I... Posted Jan 11 2010, 02:20 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, VisualStudio, Microsoft, Events, development, arkansas, azure, cloud, Dynamic, #ugpdc, VisualStudio2010, Programming, Parallel

• Meet the Creator of Centipede!

  (screen shot photo courtesy of wikipedia) Who doesn’t like the game Centipede – fast, furious action in the garden where centipedes and spiders attack you mercilessly as you dodge through toadstools trying to eliminate the unwanted pests.  Ever wonder... Posted Oct 20 2009, 02:26 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Microsoft, Events, user group, arkansas, event, meeting, centipede

• SharePoint Saturday in Harrison, AR

  Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘ SharePoint Saturday Ozarks’ , on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 in Harrison, AR.  SharePoint Saturday will be an educational,... Posted Jun 02 2009, 09:13 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: SharePoint, Events, arkansas, event

• Tour of Arkansas

  I had a GREAT time touring across Arkansas (over 1300 miles of driving!) talking about Windows Live Framework (LiveFX for short), Windows Live Mesh , ASP.NET MVC , Silverlight 3 and building communities.  I’d like to thank Randy Walker, Michael... Posted Apr 10 2009, 12:26 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Live, WindowsLive, User Groups, nwa, Travel, Mesh, Live, arkansas, azure, MVC, aspnetmvc, livefx

• 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

• 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

• MSDN Events coming to Little Rock!

  Just a quick note to let you know that the MSDN Events team is coming out to Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25th, 2008 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock .  There will be three separate sessions focusing on Visual Studio, WPF and Vista Security... Posted Aug 28 2008, 03:32 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Visual Studio, WPF, Vista, .NET, MSDN, VisualStudio, Events, arkansas, 35sp1

• Upcoming Events in South Central District

  Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:00 AM: NTPCUG Microsoft ACCESS SIG - Regular monthly meeting: Special Guest Speaker Excel MVP Michael Alexander will show us some sample Tips for Power Users and give us an overview of what he will cover in his Power User... Posted Aug 15 2008, 07:18 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Events, oklahoma, louisiana, texas, arkansas