Developer training opportunities in Chicago and beyond- August 21, 2006 As a developer community champion (DCC), I always want to keep my community abreast of training opportunities to keep your tech skills sharp and competitive. To that end, I have compiled a couple of training opportunities that you may want to check out. IMG (Chicago-based) IMG just recently rolled out some training on Visual Studio 2005 Team System. For those of you looking to get more out of your MSDN Universal subscription, this is one of the first official training programs...http://blogs.msdn.com/jacobcy/archive/2006/08/21/711011.aspx Stay tuned: upcoming webcast series pilots in September- August 10, 2006 Howdy loyal blog readers, We don't have all of the details worked out yet, but I wanted to let you all know about an experimental webcast series that my friend Glen Gordon and I are putting together. Basically, we're going to be interviewing experts on various .NET and developer technologies, while leveraging Live Meeting to allow for dynamic demonstrations. You can find out more on our special blog site - geekSpeak. We'll be posting more details to the geekSpeak blog as we line up..http://blogs.msdn.com/jacobcy/archive/2006/08/09/693842.aspx Omaha beats out Boston!- August 9, 2006 So I was in Omaha yesterday for the MSDN Event this quarter, and I was overwhelmed by the tremendous enthusiasm that poured forth from the developer community. We usually average about 45% drop-off, meaning that 55% of the registered customers actually attend. Well, we saw only 30% drop off, so that, paired with unprecedented registration of 380 meant that we had a pretty packed house with 266 developers in attendance. That alone wouldn't be so impressive, except that on the same...http://blogs.msdn.com/jacobcy/archive/2006/08/09/693810.aspx Handle this!- August 1, 2006 At the Saint Louis .NET User Group yesterday night, a fellow in the dark (both figuratively and literally in this case) asked about the Handles keyword in Visual Basic .NET. Although I provided a brief explanation during the event, with the help from some audience participation, I still wanted to share a bit more about this keyword and its buddies. This article on MSDN walks through the basics of events, event handlers, and the WithEvents and Handles keywords.http://blogs.msdn.com/jacobcy/archive/2006/08/01/685289.aspx |