Today, the Global Day of Coderetreat came to Indianapolis. And it was great. 13 people chose to spend the whole day on Saturday, December 3rd, in the “common area” at Interactive Intelligence honing their skillz. By the way, I want to extend a huge thanks to Interactive Intelligence for providing the space, a catered lunch, [...]

I really enjoyed giving my talk on ASP.NET MVC at Indy Tech Fest this year. Thanks to all who came! I think there were 75-100 people there. A poll at the beginning showed that most people in attendance had done some sort of web development, about a third had done ASP.NET development, and 2 people [...]

I’m giving a talk at IndyTechFest 2008 on ASP.NET MVC. Due to the nature of the event, it’ll be more of an introduction to ASP.NET MVC than a deep dive. But we will still have fun looking at things like doing some AJAX with jQuery, etc. Hope to see you there! The event sold out [...]

I’m leaving tomorrow for TechEd 2008 in Orlando, FL. I’m excited about it since it’s my first developer conference that isn’t targeted at a very specific purpose (like Interact 2008 was). I’m looking forward to attending some good sessions, meeting some people I’ve only ever e-listened to, and spending some relaxing evenings with my wife [...]

The Indy Code Camp is this Saturday, April 26th. I’ll post a recap once it’s done, but with 400 people registered and a lot of good sessions given by good speakers, it promises to be a good time. I’ve put in a reservation with Champps for an after-party. We’ll be going Dutch, and would love [...]

The Indy Code Camp’s schedule was just published. If you were waiting to register until you could see what kind of content would be available, now is the time! We have 24 sessions with a wide range of topics. It should be a great day! I’m very pleased with the turn out of presenters and [...]

Just a reminder that you have until Saturday, March 22nd to submit a session proposal for the Indy Code Camp before we make the final session schedule. We’ve had a lot of good submissions already. This promises to be a good event full of great content. And don’t forget the door prizes! Sign up to [...]

Things are really coming together for the upcoming Indy Code Camp (April 26th). Something I’m very excited about, in addition to the great content by local presenters (we’ve had a bunch of really good session proposals submitted so far – submit one too), are the “door prizes” that we’re going to be giving away throughout [...]

A while ago I mentioned a crazy idea about hosting an Indianapolis-based Code Camp. As I worked out that idea, I needed help. It turns out some others had been thinking about it too, and we joined efforts. It’s my pleasure to announce that the Indy Code Camp is officially scheduled for Saturday, April 26th, [...]

If you haven’t heard of it yet, just google “one laptop per child“. Or better yet, visit their website: laptop.org. The “XO” laptop is definitely a unique machine – check out some specs on the hardware, software, and interface. The software approach is admirable: XO is built from free and open-source software. Our commitment to [...]