Darrell Hawley is speaking on Web Service Enhancements and Duane Collicott is doing a tutorial session on dasBlog. It should be a great session. I really wish that I could make it.

Link to AADND in November

 The Dancing DE is still out in the wild! Unfortunately, I wasn't there with my video camera this time...

Link to Drewby: Caught on Camera (Again)

Jim Holmes has posted a ton of pictures out on Flickr of the Kalahari Resort and Indoor Water Park where CodeMash is going to be held in January.  

Link to FrazzledDad: CodeMash Venue Photos

This is a great opportunity to engage the product team that wrote VSTS. They are interested in your feedback and questions around Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers.

Join the chat on Wednesday, November 8^th, 2006 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time.

CodeMash is coming up faster than I want to think about on January 18 and 19th!

CodeMash is a unique event in that we are bringing together the .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python communities to see what we can learn from each other. As a .NET guy, I'm planning on attending the other technology's sessions so that I can learn more about then and bring good ideas back to the .NET world. It should be a fun time to be had by all involved.

The other extremely cool thing is that it's at the Kalahari Resort and indoor water park. In January, that's a great place to be.

All of this is a fantastic bargain if you sign up by 11/30 and stay at the resort. It's $99.00 for the early bird registration and $88.00 a night for the resort. The full registration is $149.00 if you don't want to stay at the resort or if you miss the 11/30 date.

Check out the site for a lot more information.

I know that there are a lot of choices out there and rather than just picking one or going off of one or two people's opinion - I thought I'd just ask on my blog what your opinion is...

Feel free to comment on this in the comments or send me an email with your comments.

Working at Microsoft so far is a trip! I’ve been warmly welcomed by a tremendous number of people that I have known for years as well as many that I have meet only virtually through conference calls and emails over the past 2 weeks. I’ve also heard from a ton of people throughout the US and the rest of the world sending their congratulations.
A lot of what I’ve been doing is training on all of the internal policies, infrastructure and learning all about this fantastic company that I’ve joined. It’s amazing how big this company is. 70,000+ employees and growing.
(In fact, they are actively looking for 3 more Architects for the Breadth team with Central Region DPE. If you are in the Central Region but not in the Heartland District (that’s mine) and you’re interested in applying for one of those 3 architect positions – feel free to email me and I’ll pass you’re contact information to the appropriate people.)
It’s starting to get exciting as I’m starting to get engaged with customer and partners. It’s very cool getting to promote and to work with some really exciting technologies with .NET 3.0 coming out next month. More to come on these technologies coming soon.

I had the great pleasure of being on .NET Rocks speaking about SQL Everywhere and a whole lot more! I really should have gotten them a better photo - but such is life.

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=202

Download: GrokTalk-10DevToolsIn10Minutes.ppt

I wanted to publically apologize to Jennifer Marsman for not mentioning her in the announcement to my new job. She is the Depth Developer Evangelist for the Heartland District. She deals with a lot of bigger accounts in the Heartland District and is a ton smarter than me, Drew Robbins and a lot of us other Breadth Evangelists...

For proof that she's smarter - check out her patent:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060074902%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060074902&RS=DN/20060074902