[Cross Posted from skimedic.com] I was invited to speak in Colorado and Arizona for three user groups, and it was a great time! I kicked off the trip in Colorado Springs at the South Colorado .NET Users Group ran by Ben Hoelting, a fellow MVP and a friend of mine that also speaks at VSLive.  We had a great chat with an overview of Uncle Bob Martin’s SOLID Principles, and then spent the majority of the time discussion software patterns and where they would make sense in the real world. Next up saw North Colorado .NET Users Group, headed up by Jeff Certain, also...

This past Saturday, the Cincinnati .NET Users Group (CINNUG) hosted another FireStarter, this one on Web Development.  Never been to a FireStarter?  The FireStarter concept is designed to light a fire under developers who are beginners or novices at a certain technology.  This one, hosted at the Cincinnati Microsoft office, focused on Web Development. We started the day with the “Battle of the 5s” – Silverlight 5 (by Bill Steele) and HTML 5 (by Brian Carter) gave really good perspectives on certainly the most discussed topic of the day (in light of the Windows 8 announcements). Over lunch we held a panel...

Spring is always hopping with several overlapping events, but here at Telerik we are still hard at work through the hot summer months! Here are some exciting new updates on our community front to kick off the summer around the world! Two *New* Telerik Insiders: Stephen Bohlen and Esteban Garcia have joined our Insiders program as of last month. We are thrilled and honored they approached us regarding the program and given their expertise and passion in the Agile and .NET space, they are perfect matches. Thank you guys! Stephen is headed to Kansas City Developer Conference this June and he is conducting two user group...

Telerik is for the first time in Norway and is very happy to see so many fans and customers at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo. Day 1 was a busy and exciting day for the Telerik team who showed some of the coolest features of our testing and project management products as well as all our UI controls. We also met with our partners from Prewise who demonstrated how Telerik TeamPulse integrates with Eylean.   Even though we don’t get much sleep under the midnight sun we can’t wait to see all of you at our booth at Day 2.

Last week marked another great CodeStock, a two day developer conference in Knoxville, TN.  The organizer, Michael Neel, does a great job of juggling the speakers, schedule, and venue, and the show continues to get better and better! Telerik was once again one of the core sponsors of the conference, as we continue our wide and deep support of the developer community.  I also gave for presentations: Test Driven Development for T-SQL Windows Presentation Foundation for Developers Implementing M-V-VM in WPF (Have you tried our WPF Controls?) Test The Hard Stuff With JustMock  All of the code can be found on my blog’s...