Brian H. Prince

I was at the HDC this past week in Omaha, NE. I had a blast! It was a great conference, and I got to speak with a lot of the local developers. People were really excited about the pending launch of Windoes 7 and the keynote from Scott Guthrie on the new VS2010 build. I interviewed a bunch of people on what their favorite Windoes 7 feature is. There is one surprising guest half way through. Thanks to David Giard who was the wizard who edited the video. You should check out his blog, and his webcast. It's a great show.

Just a quick post in case you are interested. CINNUG has been doing a series of special events. This one is a firestarter on ASP.NET MVC. Firestarters are great for getting up to speed on a technology you don’t know anything about. You can walk in the door knowing nothing about MVC, and walk out with a good grasp. From their announcement: CINNUG is hosting an ASP.NET MVC Firestarter event on Saturday, Oct. 17 th at the MS office in Mason, OH (near Cincinnati).  I was hoping that the people on this list that believe this could be a good event would please publicize the event on their blogs and/or tweet about it.  This will be the third firestarter event that CINNUG has put on and the previous two have been successful with some people coming in from TN and MI to attend these one day, focused events.  Registration Link: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=140750 Info: If you know nothing about ASP.NET MVC, then this event is for you.  ...

My buddy Jon Box will be presenting at the WinMoDevCamp in Memphis. The event is on 9/29 from 6p to 8p, which is next Tuesday. From the announcement: We're really excited to announce a barcamp style event, called WinMoDevCamp, for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 OS! The event inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, iPhoneDevCamp and préDevCamp to develop applications (local and web based) for mobile devices that run the Windows Mobile 6.5 Operating System. Attendees will include mobile developers, web developers, .NET Developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event. Attendees will be able to: Learn about the upcoming platform, the roadma...

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...

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 (...

You are invited to the Community Leadership Summit . Our goal is to gather together anyone who is rabid about the community: all of the community leaders, speakers, and contributors. We want to get together and share best practices, and learn from each other. This is OPEN. We aren’t just talking about .NET user groups. We are talking Ruby, PHP, Python, OSS, Linux, ALM, and anything else you can think of. It doesn’t have to be a big formal user group; your community might be the small group of folks that crack code at a coffee shop at 7am. Whatever it is, come on over. This summit is held twice a year, once in the summer, and once in the winter. The event will be held at Jack’s Bar-B-Que,  from noon until 4pm on August 12 th , 2009. The address is 416 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203. Their website is http://jacksbarbque.com . Register Here: http://tr.im/uKDt We are holding the summit the day before devLink because we know many leaders will already be in one place, making it ea...

nPlus1.org is hosting it's third Architecture Summit on June 10th at the Microsoft office in Nashville, TN (Franklin).  The topic of this summit will be Patterns and Principles. Session One: Software Patterns Patterns are an important tool to use as architects and developers. They provide a common vocabulary for us to design with, as well as a common approach to a common problem. Come learn about useful patterns, and how to use them in your everyday code. Session Two: How I Learned To Love Dependency Injection Dependency Injection is one of those scary topics that most developers avoid. It sounds all ‘high-falootin’ and complex. It’s not. Really. We wouldn’t lie. It’s a great way to manage complexity in your system, and a great way to make your system so much more testable. And isn’t that what we all want? Each session will be followed by open discussions periods. A catered lunch will be provided starting at noon when the welcome time begins. Register here: https://ww...

Some of my colleagues have worked with IT Pros in the community to start a new user group focused on Exchange and Windows. If you need to manage these systems, and want to learn how to really leverage them, this is the group for you. CEWUG Registration Link What: http://cewug.spaces.live.com/blog/ · Please join us for the first meeting of the Columbus Exchange & Windows User Group (CEWUG).  The goal of CEWUG is to help businesses, public sector and home users to optimize their knowledge of Windows, Exchange, Office Collaboration Server, System Center, Dynamics and Virtualization. · The goal of the CEWUG is to build relationships with peers, share expertise and involvement with the central Ohio IT community. · We will meet the 4 th   Wednesday of the month at the MS Columbus Office: 8800 Lyra Dr , Suite 400, Columbus, OH  43240 Agenda: § 5:30 to 6:05: Welcome time; meet the MS steering committee, pizza and beverages § 6:05 to 7:05: Windows 7 Overview...

nPlus1.org, a great web site that is helping architects become better architects is putting on another ArcSummit. This one will be in Columbus, Ohio on 2/25/2009. Microsoft is sponsoring, so it will be at the Microsoft office. The event goes from noon to 5pm, and we will be providing lunch. The event will be partly presentation, and part fishbowl discussion, and will follow the same agenda as the ArcSummit in Cincinnati. Read the recap here. We will start by talking about Software + Services, and what it can mean to your business. The second half will be a lap around Windows Azure, and how it works. The nPlus1 team wants to keep the number of people at the event small so that the conversations can be richer, so sign up fast, they are capping it at 40 people. To Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032400944&Culture=en-US Location: Microsoft Office - Columbus 8800 Lyra Drive - 4th Floor Suite 400 Columbus Ohio 43240 MAP ...

I am just now recovering from a great tip up to AA. The event went very well, and the organizers did a great job. It is really cool to see leaders from five different user groups get together to put on such a smoothly run event. The speakers and content they lined up were just great. I ended up in the big amphitheatre room again, as the last session of the day, just like last year. But I am not complaining. I actually like that. It allows me to tie some of the things I have seen during the day together, and weave them into my talk. I spoke on ‘How to be an architect.’ This was the first instance of this talk, and I think, with that being said, it went pretty well. I definitely found ways to smooth the delivery, and increase the connectedness of some of the value flow. I will work to make these improvements before the next time I deliver it. I have posted the slides here , if you are interested. I do want to follow up on some of the questions that were asked. 0. Someone ask...

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