I want to invite everyone to a NerdDinner at JJ’s Chill-n-Grill in Bentonville, AR after the Code Camp on April 25th. The Code Camp ends at around 6 PM and I thought it would be cool to have some socializing after a long day of sessions.
So, if you would like to join us please register on nerddinner here http://nerddinner.com/314. I need to get a good count of how many will be attending so I can reserve some tables so please register soon.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Ryan Wells has announced the next meeting of the Northwest Arkansas CocoaHeads group.
CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X. During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.
To find out more about CocoaHeads visit their site at http://cocoaheads.org/.
The next meeting of the Nwa CocoaHeads will be March 12, 2009. Ryan has encouraged everyone to to bring their favorite Xcode tips and tricks and come ready to learn.
This meeting will be held at Arsaga's Coffeehouse, Mission & Crossover, Fayetteville, Arkansas, http://cocoaheads.org/us/FayettevilleArkansas/index.html
You can also so monitor #nwacocoa on twitter.
This is a re-blog of a post by Christian Liensberger, that was posted on Microsoft Channel 8 website. I usually don’t subscribe to repeating others blogs but thought this one was worth breaking that rule.
Always wanted to learn C#? Never wanted to buy a book for that? There are great news for you! Rob Miles, a professor at the University of Hull and .NET Micro Framework [2] addicted, released his C# teaching materials for free.
He called it the "yellow book", since it is structured like a normal book, and made it available from www.csharpcourse.com.
The book contains 185 pages and covers everything from how to start with C# (like the basic language constructs) to how to create user interfaces, components and even how to encapsulate the logic of your application into business objects.
After having read the book you probably want to try what you learned. To do that you might download the Visual C# Express Edition package. It is a free version of Visual Studio and comes with everything that is required to develop programs in C#.
Thanks Christian for posting this awesome resource, you can read Christian’s post here, or head on over to http://csharpcourse.com for Robs original post and to download it.
I have long been trying to find a short-cut that would allow me to jump right to the address bar in Internet Explorer. You know since I don't like to take my hands off of the keyboard unless I have to, right. ;-) Well, I finally put a little more effort into finding it and today the technology gods have smiled down on me so I thought I would share it.
So, if you want to put focus on the address bar while browsing a web page it ALT-D, and it will select everything in the address bar and allow you to enter the new address you want to visit. Here is the link to the Microsoft Support that provides a good list of keyboard shortcuts in Internet Explorer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306832.
Great news the new site for this years Tulsa TechFest is up and registration is open!
What is the Tulsa TechFest?
The Tulsa TechFest is a technical conference with currently the broadest topics in the United States, maybe the world. Covering everything enterprise architecture, software/web development, databases, project management, data security and this year for the first time - graphic/web design.
The primary focus is to provide training/teaching sessions that are immediately beneficial to the broadest range of IT professionals in their day-to-day jobs. We accomplish this with over 60 national/international speakers and 90 to 120 75 minute sessions.
The Tulsa TechFest is also a charitable non-profit event that has helped out in the community. This year they are charging admittance of 2 can or 2 bucks. All canned food will be donated to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma and all proceeds will be donated to the Family & Children's Services.
Who is Presenting?
Check out this partial list of speakers for this years events.
- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
- Bill Vaughn, Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Founder, Beta V Corporation
- Les Pinter, Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Founder, Pinter Consulting
- Chris Koenig, Developer Evangelist , Microsoft
- Zain Naboulsi, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
- Phil Wheat, Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
- Michael Scherotter, Developer Evangelist, San Francisco, Microsoft
- Caleb Jenkins, Microsoft MVP - Visual Developer ASP/ASP.NET, Training Mentor / Consultant, Improving Enterprises
- Brad McGehee, Microsoft MVP - SQL Server, Director of DBA Education, Red-Gate Software
- Brent Ozar, SQL Server Expert, Quest Software
- and many more! (Click here for full list!)
For more information and full schedule and tracks listing head on over to http://tulsatechfest.com and don’t forget to register.