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  • VSLive Rocks!

    I spent the last week at VSLive in Dallas .  Think mental overload.  There were more sessions I wanted to attend, than there was time to attend them.  John Papa gave some very interesting presentations on the Entity Framework.  Miguel...
    12-15-2008, 12:55 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Enough Said...

    PDC...
    10-24-2008, 2:12 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Slick Tools from SlickEdit

    Over the last few weeks I've been using the new suite of tools from SlickEdit for Visual Studio. They are organized in two toolboxes, one for editing and one for version control. Installation into Visual Studio 2008 was smooth and painless. Installation...
    07-09-2008, 8:14 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Brad Was Here

    Brad Abrams came to the TRINUG meeting on April 9 and knocked us all out. He always gives a great presentation and this time he gave us a peek at some of the new technologies from Microsoft. He demonstrated some Silverlight 2.0 features, and showed the...
    04-15-2008, 7:22 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Brad is Coming

    Brad Abrams (the man behind .NET) is coming to town and he will be speaking at the TRINUG meeting on April 9, 2008.  He'll be speaking about some of the new technologies from Microsoft for ASP.NET development including the new MVC framework . ...
    02-25-2008, 7:23 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Code Camp is Coming to Raleigh Again!

    Mark you calendars for February 9, 2008. TRINUG is hosting another Code Camp and it will be better than ever. Watch for the call for speakers if you want to give a presentation and check the TRINUG website for more information as it becomes available...
    11-28-2007, 4:36 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Visual Studio 2008 RTM is Available!

    If you are an MSDN subscriber, you can get the RTM version now.  Hurry and get the bits!  Be the first on your block!  If you've been using the beta, read this .  Let the fun begin!!!...
    11-21-2007, 9:08 AM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Rob Zelt, MVP

    Rob Zelt , one of TRINUG's own, has been awarded a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the community. Great work, Rob! Congratulations!! No one deserves it more. Now, if he will still let me hang out with him at B&N......
    10-05-2007, 5:51 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Computer Graphics on Steroids

    For those of you with excellent graphics skills, doing animations may be just another day at the office. For the graphically challenged like me, it's magic! There are a bunch of video clips on YouTube by Animusic that are just that kind of magic for me....
    08-06-2007, 7:01 AM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Wondering What Else You Can Do With Your Fingers?

    Computing is about to change radically with Microsoft Surface . Think of it as tablet computing on steroids. Your tabletop has never been so cool! Imagine smart phones, smart credit cards, and smart mp3 players all interacting seamlessly with your tabletop!...
    06-22-2007, 1:32 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • TRINUG Code Camp

    Don't forget about TRINUG's Code Camp on June 23 at ECPI. It's going to be excellent! Here is a preliminary list of the sessions. If you can't find something interesting in this list, check your pulse. .NET 3.5 and LINQ - Ashton Hobbs Adding Compression,...
    06-18-2007, 5:14 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Acropolis is Here

    No, it's not something from Greece being shipped over here. It's a little taste of the good things to come from Microsoft. Acropolis is a set of tools and components in the Orcas version of Visual Studio to make modular business application development...
    06-08-2007, 8:32 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • TRINUG Gets Rocky

    Rocky Lhotka is coming to town and will be speaking at TRINUG on June 13. If you are a fan of business objects, you want to hear him. He is the developer of CSLA, a framework for distributed .NET applications using business objects. Here is what he says...
    05-24-2007, 6:27 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Free is Better

    I like cheap things. Cheap things let me keep more of my money in my pocket and not someone else's. I don't want to lose quality, just expense. With that in mind, I was excited to find some good training on .NET 3.0 for free! And after all, free is better....
    05-22-2007, 4:44 AM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • What is Popfly?

    What is Popfly ? It's some very cool technology from Microsoft. This thing takes drag and drop development to a whole new level. If you haven't seen a demo of it, check it out here . This is just an example of the cool new things coming out of Microsoft...
    05-20-2007, 7:15 AM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • Code Camp Comes to TRINUG

    TRINUG will be holding its second Code Camp on June 23 at the Raleigh ECPI campus at Glenwood and Lynn Rd. The list of sessions and speakers is already getting impressive. There will be lots of information about the recently released .NET 3.0 technologies,...
    05-20-2007, 12:47 AM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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  • New Blogware

    In my seemingly never ending quest for usable blogware, I have landed here. I've tried Blogger and Windows Live Spaces . They were easy to use, but felt restrictive with few features that make blogging easy and fun. So, I'll try this for a while. One...
    05-19-2007, 6:02 PM by jbennett to Joe's Blog
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