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    User Group Support for May 22-25–Even through a Tornado

    It’s been another busy week supporting the community!  On Tuesday, I gave two presentations.  One over lunch for the Cincinnati Financial Corporation Internal .NET Users Group on “Implementing MVVM for Windows Presentation Foundation” and in the evening spoke for my home user group, the Cincinnati .NET Users Group (CINNUG) on “Test Driving ASP.NET”.  On Wednesday, I drove up to the Dayton .NET Developers’ Group to give my “Deliver Cleaner Code with LINQ to Objects” talk, and had to take a 30 minute intermission due to a tornado warning!  Not to be stopped, we actually had a great open spaces style discussion while...
    May 26, 2011 1 min read
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    Another Successful Richmond Code Camp

    The organizers of the Richmond Code Camp rang in another successful event.  Telerik was a sponsor of the event, and the .NET Ninja shirts and Ninja heads were flying all around!  I was also a speaker at the event, delivering two successful talks that both received great feedback. The two talks that gave were “Lessons Learned: Being Agile in a Waterfall Sandbox” and “Delivering Cleaner Code with LINQ to Objects”.  Both sessions had great interaction from the audience, and quite a few hallway conversations to boot.  if you are interested in the content, you can download the slides and the code samples...
    May 26, 2011 1 min read
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    Speaking at NT Conference in Slovenia

    Tomorrow I will be delivering a lecture at the NT Conference in beautiful Slovenia. My talk will be about one of my favorite topics as of late:   Proper usage of data visualization in your dashboard and business applications “Many dashboards and business apps we see every day suffer from poor design causing them to fail their primary purpose: to convey a lot of information in a small amount of space in a manner that is clear and immediate. If you attend this lecture you will learn how to avoid the most common mistakes in data visualization and will gain valuable insight on how to...
    May 23, 2011 1 min read
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    Telerik Supports SharePoint Saturday in Australia

    This weekend, Telerik sponsored the SharePoint Saturday event in Brisbane, Australia (#SPSBNE). The terrible day of Rapture (Thousands said goodbye to family and friends ahead of 6pm Saturday deadline) was on this day and it was all over the news. So I was a bit worried if I should spend the last day of the world here, but Mike Rhodes had said we had lots of great speakers and I was looking forward to meeting them.  Figure: I could not resist the temptation to see those speakers The day started out with a bang and it went from strength to strength. I found it was...
    May 23, 2011 2 min read
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    Tech-Ed Is A Wrap, and it was Awesome

    TechEd 2011 was another great event.  We had a lot of traffic at the Telerik booth, giving away a huge amount of T-Shirts and Ninja head stress balls, showed a ton of demos of our software, and had great conversations with not only customers but people discerning what to buy. I was also busy working the “Ask the Architect” booth in the Microsoft Technical Learning Center, and I gave two Birds of a Feather sessions, and both were a great success. Agile Development: Can it Work For Everyone This session I gave in conjunction with Mario Cardinal, another thought leader in the agile space. ...
    May 20, 2011 2 min read