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Work for the Best … Pity the Rest

Do you work for a company that truly, I mean truly, values technical leadership and skills? Do they value your abilities to communicate with non-IT staff? Do they encourage you to get involved in the community through a bonus compensation plan that includes things as simple as attending a...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2010
Why should I got to Dallas TechFest?

So I’m always pushing Dallas TechFest, and that I believe it is the best value day you can spend away from work, but you don’t have to listen to me… “There are also some big names from other technologies at TechFest as well, such as Scott Davis ( Grails guru extraordinaire), Ted Neward (.NET developer...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-26-2010
Another Database Option - MongoDB

It’s been far to long since I’ve talked here about what I’m working on, so it is time to correct that. I’ve been working with a client who has some very unique business requirements, and one of them deals with a lot of flexibility of their data storage. As such we were looking into different...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2010
iPad becomes toughPad

So on Thursday afternoon, I picked up a beautiful new iPad 16gb WiFi. As an avid iPhone user, I find the device to be everything I expected, and used it all day Friday happily. On Saturday night, technically Sunday morning, I was leaving the home of my brother after a night of playing poker, and...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-07-2010
Dallas TechFest 2010 Registration Is Open

I’m thrilled to announce that registration is open for Dallas TechFest 2010 at http://dallastechfest.eventbrite.com Who is speaking you ask? Well our incredible team of web volunteers are hard at work on a refresh of our website, but in the meantime, here are some names and topics from the .NET...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-25-2010
Why go to the MVP Summit?

Every year Microsoft hosts an event they refer to as the MVP Global Summit in the Seattle area. This event is invitation only event where those who have been recognized as Microsoft MVPs get to meet with their product groups, discuss strategy, impart real-world scenarios, and learn what is coming...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-20-2010
Dallas TechFest 2010 – Call For Speakers

I’m thrilled to announce that Dallas TechFest 2010 has set a date of July 30th, 2010 and is currently engaged in a Call For Speakers looking for those in all sorts of technology areas who wish to speak. If you’ve got expertise in .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, ColdFusion, Python, Flex or anything else...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-17-2010
Gravatars in ASP.NET MVC using HtmlHelper

I’m working on a side-project right now that is using Gravatars and found the wonderful article by Ryan Lanciaux on creating an HtmlHelper extension. His extension was good, but did not use integrate with the FluentHtml model of MvcContrib, so I refactored his original into the following class...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-23-2009
I’m an MVP for 2009!

A couple of days late, but I’m thrilled to announce that Microsoft has recognized me as a Most Valuable Professional again for 2009. I’m always immensely honored to be counted among this incredible group of technologists. MVPs are known around the world as passionate experts in their field...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2009
New Project, New Technologies

Starting Monday morning I will be starting a new project for a client of my employer Improving Enterprises . I’ve spent a good deal of time talking with my new teammates about what technologies we will be using for the project, and I thought that work might be of interest to others, so here are...

Posted to TimRayburn.net (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2009

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