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• GiveCamp 2010 A Success

  This last weekend I hosted and participated in the first Twin Cities GiveCamp . We created a solution for the Animal Humane Society which they were very happy with. I'm happy to say that the event was a success! Here's the success annoucement on the give Read More... Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 8:45 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• TCCC7 Materials

  Below are the materials from my Twin Cities Code Camp 7 Presentation. Both code and PowerPoint are included. Enjoy! Code (~6MB) PowerPoint (489K) Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:33 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• Twin Cities Code Camp 7

  This Saturday, Twin Cities Code Camp 7 ! I'll be presenting on the awesome ASP.NET MVC and Spark View Engine implementation. Come on down, its free! Don't forget to register on the Code Camp website. :) See you there. * The text below was shamelessly Read More... Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:39 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET, Events, Mocks

• Materials from HDC09 - Testing With Mocks Talk

  Below is a link to download the Testing With Mocks lightning round talk that I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference this last week. In order to get the samples to run you will need to have TypeMock Isolator installed. If you do not own a license Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:07 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools, TDD, Alt.Net, MVC, .NET, Testing, Events, Agile, Mocks, Patterns and Practices

• Twin Cities Pragmatic/ALT.NET Beer Tomorrow

  Tomorrow we have another Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer event at the Herkimer in Minneapolis (Uptown). Another name for this same event is the Twin Cities ALT.NET Beers. For more information on where the Herkimer is and what time things are going to get going, Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:53 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• Presenting at the Minneapolis ALT.NET

  I will be giving my “Testing with Mocks” talk at the Minneapolis ALT.NET meeting this September 17th. Be sure to sign up on the www.mplsalt.net site as space is limited. See you there. Read More... Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 8:41 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• Spark View Engine @ the Minneapolis ALT.NET Meeting – June 18th @ 6pm

  The Minneapolis ALT.NET Meeting will be held at Central Library in Downtown Minneapolis at 6pm in room N-202. Registration is required so please sign up here . Space is limited so hurry and sign up! In this presentation Louis DeJardin will be giving an Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:32 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: MVC, Events

• Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine

  I recently completed a small series on the Spark View Engine for DimeCasts.net . The first episode “Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine” has been posted . If this interests you be sure to check this blog or DimeCasts.net for new episodes. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:16 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Screencasts

• New Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer Events

  Two new Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer events have been posted to the site. This months will be at Kierans Irish Pub (doing a repeat for those who missed it last time) and we also have an event planned for June at The Herkimer. See the Twin Cities Pragmatic Read More... Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 7:09 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• Tonight, ReMix

  Last week, I posted info about the reMix event happening here in Minneapolis. It's tonight! Don't forget! See you there. Read More... Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:42 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• reMix Event in Minneapolis

  Cool event coming up next week! Details below ... Join us for a special event co-sponsored by the .NET User Group & Silverlight User Group. This month we’re bringing highlights from the MIX09 conference to you!! You’ll get detailed information Read More... Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 6:41 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• Twin Cities Give Camp Postponed

  It has been moved to November 14th and 15th of 2009. Why? Get the inside scoop here . Read More... Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 9:29 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• TCCC6 Video Interview

  The coordinator of the Twin Cities Code Camp Jason Bock interviewed me at the Twin Cities Code Camp this last weekend with his video camera. The video has recently been posted and can be viewed below:   … and we have a very small snippet of my session Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:47 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Conferences

• Twin Cities Code Camp 6 – Testing with Mocks – Code and Presentation

  As I stated in the session “Testing with Mocks”, I would post the code and presentation to this blog. Download the code and the presentation as a zip file below. Thank you for coming to the talk! If you have any questions please let me know. *NOTE* You Read More... Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:48 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Events, Conferences, Mocks

• Presentation Settings for Visual Studio

  Unfortunately most presenters do not think about font size until about 10 _after_ they show code to an audience. Its usually followed by the confirmation question from the presenter that goes something like this: “Hey, can you guys see the code?” Most Read More... Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:24 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools, Productivity, Visual Studio, Events, Screencasts, Conferences