Jim O'Neil - Technology Evangelist

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Beantown.NET Special Event: April 29th

Beantown.NET INETA User Group is hosting Rocky Lhotka, Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/27/2009

Roadshow Hits the Bigtime on Channel 9!

Chris, Bob, and I are thrilled to see our name in lights – well, almost – as we launch the Northeast...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/24/2009

Geek Dinner WIth SHAWN WILDERMUTH

Shawn Wildermuth, C# MVP, author, and all-round technologist, is in town next week on his...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/21/2009

Got MSDN? Get CCR and DSS

This just out.  If you have an MSDN Professional or Premium subscription, you now have access...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/21/2009

IE8 Web Slices on ARCast.tv

Dr. "Z" has launched another new ARCast.TV episode on IE8.  This time he walks us...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/21/2009

RIA = Developer + Designer

That’s an equation you’ll typically hear us evangelists espouse, with XAML (eXtensible Application...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/20/2009

P is for… Partial Method

By now, most of you are likely familiar with the concept of partial classes, introduced in .NET 2.0...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/20/2009

It’s For-IE-day: Week 3

Last week we took a look at Compatibility View as a way to retain the older rendering functionality...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/17/2009

IASA Meeting: Intuit QuickBase Deep-Dive

The next IASA New England meeting will be held next Thursday, April 23rd at the Intuit Offices in...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/16/2009

Dynamic Data Resources

Thanks to all that turned out at the ASP.NET Professionals User Group tonight in Waltham to hear...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/15/2009

IE8 Accelerators on ARCast.TV

My colleague Bob Familiar of ARCast.TV fame (and all round great guy) has just posted the latest...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/15/2009

Dynamic Data @ ASP.NET Professionals User Group

I’ll be presenting at the second meeting of the ASP.NET Professionals User Group this coming...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/13/2009

Azure Updates

If you’ve been putting off getting your head around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform,...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/09/2009

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 is ready for download! There’s no significant new product features,...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/08/2009

Boston Tiki Tour

Granted, Boston and Tiki Huts are not something you normally associate with one another…although…a...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/08/2009

N is for… Nullable

Nullable<T> is a generic structure introduced with the .NET Framework 2.0 to support the...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/06/2009

It’s For-IE-day: Week 1

Get it? say it real fast...  Ok, it’s a stretch, but given that I’m working on coming up to...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/03/2009

WCF CHAMP

I guess I’m showing my age, but the first thing I thought of when hearing about this clip (below)...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/02/2009

.NET Groups @ NERD

Microsoft’s new New England Research and Development Center is becoming a hub of .NET activity in...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/02/2009

Conficker Worm: Protect Yourself

Chances are you’ve already seen this mentioned in the mainstream press, but if not, here’s the link...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/31/2009

M is for… M

M is for M:  How cool is that? You really can’t start talking about M without first mentioning...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/30/2009

Roadshow Recap (Including Some Answers!)

On Monday, Chris, Bob, and I wrapped up the latest edition of the Northeast Roadshow in...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/26/2009

WorldMaps

Get Report perseus.xml

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/25/2009

Safer Browsing With IE8

My colleague in New York, Peter Laudati, just alerted me to this report in which IE8 was found to be...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/25/2009

Code Camp Call Out

It’s a one-two punch, code-camp-wise! New England Code Camp is THIS Saturday, March 28th, at the...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/25/2009

Windows Mobile at SwANH

I’ll be in Bedford, New Hampshire, tomorrow evening participating at the Software Association of New...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/23/2009

L is for… Lambda

If the lambda operator and associated lambda expressions are Greek to you, read on!  lambda (λ)...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/23/2009

Beantown .NET Goes NERD-y

Some may say any .NET user group is nerdy, but the Beantown .NET INETA User Group gets the honors of...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/22/2009

Russ’ Tool shed on Channel 9

Many of you in this area are fans of Russ Fustino, who was a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/20/2009

IE8

In case you missed Dean Hachamovitch’s keynote at MIX09 this morning, Internet Explorer 8 is now...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/19/2009

M-V-C is H-E-R-E

Here’s one of a number of cool announcements coming out of MIX 09 going on now at the Venetian in...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight 3 Emerges from the Shadows

Scott Guthrie gave a bit of a teaser in a blog post last November, but today Silverlight 3 is a...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/18/2009

24 Hours of .NET – No Foolin’

Here’s a unique developer event you can attend in your pajamas!  Microsoft TechDays Developer...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/17/2009

TONIGHT! Inaugural Meeting of ASP.NET Professionals

Quick reminder: the first meeting of the newly formed ASP.NET Professionals User Group takes place...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/16/2009

K is for… Key

‘Key’ is a rather overloaded term in .NET and programming circles in general. There are database...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/16/2009

Get RESTy With It

Preview 2 of the WCF REST Starter Kit is now available on CodePlex.  I covered an earlier...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/15/2009

Hartford Roadshow Attendees Take Note

Chris, Bob and I just got back from the first two stops on our Northeast Roadshow series (thanks to...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/13/2009

SQL Data Services: Look at Us Now!

Being the data and services geek that I am, I’ve spent a fair amount of time of over the last couple...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/10/2009

J is for.. JSON

No, not the Greek hero who scored the Golden Fleece; this JSON (note – there’s no ‘a’ here) stands...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/09/2009

Northeast Roadshow Update

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unfortunately we need to cancel the Albany venue on the...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/06/2009

Syracuse MSDN Event

Thanks to all the folks that turned out for the MSDN event today yesterday in Syracuse.  We had...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/06/2009

Get into the MIX09

It’s exactly two weeks until MIX09, and here’s the scene from my home office window juxtaposed with...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/04/2009

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Hot of the wire(less)… Release Candidate 2 of the ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) framework is...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/03/2009

I is for… Isolated Storage

Isolated storage is a pretty nifty concept that’s actually been part of the .NET Framework since...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/02/2009

Hat’s Off to Pat

Thanks to Pat Tormey, leader of the New Hampshire .NET User Group, for organizing and hosting the...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/28/2009

Windows 7 Peek at RC

I hope that wasn’t too much of a tease.  No, I don’ t have people in high places or any clout...

Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/27/2009

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