July 2009 Entries

Speaking: Shreveport, LA 7/20/2009 – WCF

Tonight I’ll be speaking at the Shreveport, LA .Net User Group. This is my first trip back to Shreveport in 12 years and I’m looking forward to the visit. I used to live in Bossier City / Shreveport, LA after I graduated college. It was there I had my first teaching job. It is funny how life makes full circles because the leader of the .Net Group there, Brian, I taught when he was in 8th grade. Tonight I will be Demystifying Windows Communication Foundation. Summary: Windows Communication Foundation was released with the .Net 3.0 framework...

posted @ Monday, July 20, 2009 7:36 AM | Feedback (1)

Deep Fried Birthday Cake

My birthday was a few weeks ago and my lovely wife had the idea to get me a Deep Fried Bytes birthday cake. I just now got the pictures synced up so I thought I’d share it. The most important thing about the cake was it had thick, I mean extremely thick icing on it. It was delicious. The employees at Home Bake in Hattiesburg did a great job.

posted @ Friday, July 03, 2009 10:41 AM | Feedback (2)

MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th

It is official, it is Christmas in July for many MSDN / Technet subscribers. The official RTM version of Windows 7 will be available for download on MSDN / Technet on July 13th. Wait… I thought it was supposed to be released on October 22nd? The October 22nd date is the date it will be available in stores. The July 13th release is the same version that will be cut to the manufacturers. It takes the manufacturers time to get their stuff in order so units can start shipping (usually about 3 months). Thus pending any...

posted @ Friday, July 03, 2009 9:21 AM | Feedback (3)

Speaking: Distributed Caching with Velocity in Fort Smith, AR July 13th

July 13th I’ll be in Fort Smith, AR presenting at the local .Net User Group there on the topic of distributed caching with Velocity (Microsoft’s new distributed caching product). This will be my second trip to the state of Arkansas as I was in Little Rock earlier in the year. Before hitting Fort Smith, we are planning a mini-vacation to Branson, Mo. We’ve been there before and it will be fun to spend the weekend there. Here is the abstract and title for Monday night’s presentation: Distributing Cache One Byte at a Time With Velocity...

posted @ Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:37 AM | Feedback (2)