'Tis the day before I head out for DevTeach and have already completed my pre-conference ritual with my wife. It's a fun game we play a few times a year called "Why do you do this?" I was just settling in for some quality time with Bear Grylls when she starts the first round off with...

NOTE: This post is about a day and a half late. I could claim that I wanted the event to sink in first but the reality is I was trying to get a handle back on things after a very hectic week. Part of it was a short but very successful trip to NYC. So dense was the wife's and daughter's shopping...

Bahamas .NET User Group's first meeting is tonight and I'm using my little pundit here to document some pre-game thoughts for posterity. So that I can compare notes to the post-game show. If I were to be honest with myself, I'd admit that the lead-up to this has been more frustrating than...

Quick announcement/reminder today. The inaugural meeting for the Bahamas .NET User Group is in two days. Thanks to IPBS for allowing us to use their office to host it. They are located on Moseley Lane. You can get to it by going west on Shirley Street and turning right on to Moseley Lane right after...

Watching the Polyglot Programming video courtesy of enabler-extraordinaire, Dave Laribee, and it revealed (or rather re-revealed) something about myself that I hope is common enough that I'll get at least one BOOYAH in the comments. I watched Amadeus when I was just a wee country whelp. And even...

It's been a busy couple of weeks on the ALT.NET front . Here's the run-down: Jeremy Miller has the back page of this month's MSDN magazine where he does a great job of describing ALT.NET and filling in some of the background for people that might be new to the idea. Oh, and, thanks for the...

Things are loading up for 2008, so it's time for everyone's favorite "where I'll be over the next six months post." Tonight (yeah, tonight ) I'm going to be given a very early version of a new talk called Planned Agility?! at the Philly ALT.NET group . If you're in town...

OK, I've already given away the ending so I'll skip the build-up. But to set the stage for the official announcement, I'll direct your attention to the pictures adorning this post. They represent two of the workspaces I frequent, both in my condo complex. All pictures are clickable for larger...

The title pretty much says it all. Registration is open! If you were contacted by one or more of the organizers, we have a special code for you that lets you bypass general registration. Otherwise it's limited to the first 100 or so people that get in (we had about 50 invites). You will need an OpenID...

Quick heads up: we're not complete with the details, but we're well into planning an ALT.NET Open Spaces event to be held in Redmond, WA. We're upping the seats to 150 and, yes, it's still free and first come, first served. Registration opens early February. Keep a look out at the event...