SRT Solutions’ Dennis Burton Honored as Microsoft MVP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCTOBER 10, 2011 – ANN ARBOR, MICH. – SRT Solutions senior consultant Dennis Burton was recently awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

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Communities and Networks: What are you building?

Standard business advice is “network, network, network”. I disagree, and in this article I’ll tell you why you should concentrate on building communities instead. Let’s begin with the definitions (both from Webster’s).  network (n) …

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Tell me Why

No, not the Beatles song. This is my single most important recommendations for speakers.  If I devote an hour of my life to attend your talk, answer the ‘why?’ question. We’ve all heard that there are only a few important questions to ans…

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My (annotated) plans for CodeMash

CodeMash is next week. My favorite feature of CodeMash is that there is great content from start to finish. Because there is so much great content, it’s not possible to give others recommendations that are universally correct. Instead, I’ll say whe…

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My CodeMash 2010 experience

I have enjoyed reading other posts about how much people enjoyed CodeMash. It is my favorite yearly conference. The people are brilliant, and energized about technology. It’s also one of very few events that embrace people with very different views. …

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Slides and Demos from my 2010 CodeMash talk

As promised, here are the slides and demos from my CodeMash Talk:  Going Dynamic in C#. Slides. Demos. Please note that the demos are compatible with VS2010 Beta 2. They will not load (or run) on VS2008. I believe they will be compatible with f…

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Advice for Public Speakers

A friend of mine asked me for some pointers relating to giving technical talks recently. We had a great discussion and I thought that some of the advice was general enough that I would share it here. Many of us are involved in user groups, and we (as a…

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Code and Slides for State of Michigan Developer Briefing

Yesterday, a number of community leaders and Microsoft employees gave a series of presentations for developers working for the State of MI. We spent the better part of the day discussing the current and future trends for developers on the .NET framewor…

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Mark Mydland (VS Test Edition Principal Group Manager) coming to AADND

  We’ve got a great treat for Ann Arbor .NET this week.  Mark Mydland, from the Visual Studio Test edition, is coming through our region to speak at a variety of user groups.  (Thanks to Jennifer Marsman for setting this up). It promi…

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Developer Challenge: Sign up for GiveCamp Ann Arbor

OK, here's the deal:  Those of us working on organizing the Ann Arbor Give Camp have been reaching out to charities for the past month or so. There's good news, and a challenge. We've had more than 35 local and regional charities respo…

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