Brian H. Prince

Jim Holmes has announced that his latest brain child conference is open for registration. Of course, registration is free. So what is it? You don’t need to ask. If Jim is doing it, then it’s worth your time. Ok, if you don’t buy that, then how about a whole dedicated to learning how to better engineer software. All software, not just .NET stuff. The event will be at the Microsoft office, near Polaris, in Columbus, Ohio. Event Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Time: 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Welcome Time: 07:30 AM Eastern Time Location: Microsoft Corporation 8800 Lyra Dr. Polaris Center, Suite 400 Columbus, OH 43240 Location Website   Agenda: Time Session Speaker 8:15 – 8:20 Intro   8:20 – 9:30 Principles of Object Oriented Programming   9:35 – 10:45 SOLID Jon Kruger 11:00 – 11:15 Understandin...

While I was at devLink I presented a talk called "5 frameworks you can’t live without.” I wanted to talk to people about how to not be a plumber, and how to reduce the code you write to only what only someone like you can write. I also wanted to share some frameworks that I know a lot of people are using and having success with. This deck is very unsophisticated, and it has a very interesting origination story. I will be happy to share it with anyone who buys me a drink. Big thanks to Mike Wood for helping me with it. As a whole, devLink was a blast. It is always fun to attend it. If you didn’t get to go you should mark it on your calendar for next year.  

My good friend Wes Brock just let me know that Wintellect will be offering a 2 day training course on how to build applications for Azure for $499. The course will be delivered by Paul Mehner, online. This is great news, so you don’t have to travel to sit in on the class. The training will be on October 21-22, 2009. The course will cover: Section 1 - Introduction and Overview of the Azure Services Platform · Intro to the Azure Services Platform · Intro to Windows Azure Services · Intro to .NET Services · Intro to SQL Azure (future) · Service Registration and setup Section 2 - Windows Azure Services · Visual Studio “Cloud Service” Projects · Configuration of your Windows Azure application · Deployment of your Windows Azure application · Load Balancing Infrastructure · Use of Azure with non-Microsoft technologies (future) Lab 1a: Setup of your Windows Azure Account Lab 1b: Develop and deploy your first Windows Azure Application Section 3 - Microsoft .NET ...

I want to thank everyone that came out to the Community Leadership Summit in Nashville. If you missed it, don’t worry. There will be another one around CodeMash time. After the opening comments and lunch, we brain stormed a series of interesting conversations, and then scheduled them in a grid. Whomever came up with the session idea had to act as the proctor, and take notes. Each session lasted about 30 minutes. At the end of all of the sessions, each moderator presented the results of their session. Matt Hester recorded these summaries, and they should be available shortly. Until then, here are the notes. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to enter them into the local community wiki, so if someone wants to do handle that, that would be fabulous. Otherwise, I will try to get to in in October. At this point I am just transcribing the notes. They are not complete. Many times I don’t know what the intention of the note is. If you know, please leave a comment here, or update the wiki (...

If you want to learn more about what is new in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you should attend this event. We will get you up to speed on the latest features, and how you can delight your users with some of these new features: DirectAccess, Group Policy and PowerShell, new Internet Explorer 8 features. New BitLocker, AppLocker and User Account Control Features Easy Windows 7 deployment Direct Access is great. It allows me to VPN into our corporate network without the VPN hoops. It sets up in the background, on demand, based on what resources I want to access. It also allows a remote IT Admin to manage my box (for example, to push a critical patch) at any time, not only when I finally VPN in. PowerShell is also pretty fantastic, for both IT Pros and developers. It is a very powerful shell that is object oriented, and has full access into the whole platform, so you automate a lot of your work. The list goes on and on. You can register here: htt...

If you are looking for a way to learn more about Silverlight, Expression, RIA Services, and the related toolkits, here is your chance. On September 17th, we will be hosting an online event, that will be keynoted by Scott Guthrie. But that’s not all. There will also be presentations by Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and others. You can register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423163&Culture=en-US .