For the next several weeks or month I've got several events lined up I'll be speaking at in different parts of the country.  If you are in these areas I hope you can stop in and say hi. Where:  http://www.alabamacodecamp.com  (Alabama Code Camp)When: April 14th, 2007City:  Mobile, AL Last year we held the Alabama Code Camp in the fall in Montgomery, AL.  On April 14th in Mobile, AL we're having another CodeCamp.  This CodeCamp is being put on by the Lower Alabama .Net User Group.  Doug and Matthew of the LANUG are doing a great job pulling this camp...

I just got back from the MVP Summit in Seattle, WA where 1700 MVP's from all across the world representing some 90 different countries came together.  I've been to various technical conferences including the Office Developer Conference, Tech Ed, and PDC.  All of these conferences are great, but honestly, the MVP Summit was the most interesting one I've attended.  As you notice on my blog I don't display the MVP logo, and for good reason since I'm not an MVP. I received a special invitation to attend the summit back in January as a special guest this year (very cool). ...

While this article is about, hmm, 9 months old right now, I just stumbled across it.  Call it fate if you like that I was eventually destined to read it.  The article covers some great tips on how to make FlyOut panels and how to create things like Collapsible Menus in Windows Forms 2.0.  The examples are in VB, but they do have C# and VB in the samples download.  The article can be found here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730847(VS.80).aspx

I just took the Programmer Personality Test which is based on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test.  I am a DLSB - Doer Low level Solo situation liBeral programmer.  If you want to take it you can take it here: http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11

Some call it the best windows mobile phone currently available, others call it too expensive, others, well they are just jealous. Several days ago I got an opportunity to get a new phone so I took it.  A friend of mine who was so smitten with my Cingular 8125 cell phone that I won at Tech Ed 2006 went out and got one themselves several months ago.  A few days ago their phone was stolen.  Since they only owned the phone for a very short time, it was going to cost the full retail price to replace it.  Most of us are familiar with how...

This is the year that a lot of us will have to choose one conference over the other since PDC is on the 2007 calendar.  If you were given the choice where you had to choose one event over the other, which one would you go to? TechEd 2007 or PDC 2007?  In 2005 I attended PDC 2005 and in 2006 I attended TechEd 2006 in Boston.  I've been to both events and enjoyed both.  PDC 2005 we got to first see Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and other goodies that just RTMed as of late.  They really are different type of events since PDC...