This is a 2-day deep dive program to help prepare you to deliver solutions on the Windows Azure Platform. We have worked to b ring the region’s best Azure experts together to teach you how to work in the cloud. Each day will be filled with training, discussion, reviewing real scenarios, and hands on...

This week a MSDN event will be held at the Microsoft office in Mason, OH. Here’s the summary: “ By now most developers and architects are aware of cloud computing and several people have heard of Microsoft Azure, which was announced at PDC 2008 last November. While many of the fundamental concepts are...

Brian took his broad career and walked us through the path he took and the decisions he made along the way. Here are some of the concepts that Brian covered along the way. Sometimes a career is moving along great, and sometimes careers take shifts for the worse. It's during these shifts that you...

Microsoft has released a new site of resources for people working on the MS Platform who are looking to improve their skills, get a job, or get involved in the community. Here is a blurb from their Marketing department: "Are you being asked to tackle new development tasks? Struggling to implement...

Microsoft is hosting three events on the same day May.  On  Thursday, May 14th, Microsoft will be having the following sessions: ArcReady (9:00 AM – 11:45 AM): Architecting for the Client Tier - ( Register Here ) MSDN Unleashed (1:00 PM – 2:50 PM): IE8 For Developers & Developing for Windows...

For the next ArcReady the series will be exploring a topic on everyone’s mind: Cloud computing. Several industry companies have announced cloud computing services. In October 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced the next phase of their Software + Services vision: the Azure...

Mark your calendars! Microsoft's free events for the fourth quarter of the year have been announced. Both events will be on October 7th at the Microsoft Office in Mason. The ArcReady event is on "Architecting for the Modern Distributed Application". This event will be from 9:00 AM to 11...

Join Microsoft and Pluralsight in a timely discussion on Next Web In this seminar, you will take part in a technical exploration of the latest technologies Microsoft has to offer, and how you can take advantage of those technologies to provide a truly next-generation user experience in you Windows and...

A volunteer has stepped up to lead a study group for the MCPD Web Developer certification. If you are interested please contact me either through the website here or my blog ( http://www.mvwood.com/blog ). We are trying to keep the study groups smaller so that it will be easier to meet and organize so...

Drew Robbins, our regional Developer Evangelist (DE), has sent out some love to the user groups in the form of Free E-Learning. All you have to do is sign up by April 15th, but it sounds like you can have access to the material after that date. Check out instructions over in the Coffee House Forum.