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Windows Phone Garage–May 9th
There’s less than a week to register for the Windows Phone Garage at the Microsoft New England...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/03/2011
ANOTHER New Group in New Hampshire
Last night, Pat Tormey, David Byer and guest speaker John Garland kicked off the third pillar of the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/21/2011
RockPaperAzure Just Got Trilingual!
We’re just beginning the third week of the RockPaperAzure Challenge, and Brian, Peter, and I are...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/19/2011
Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th
The New Hampshire .NET User Group is expanding into a new area of the state. Joining the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/18/2011
Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN: New and improved
If you have an MSDN Premium or Ultimate subscription, hopefully you’re aware of and have...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/12/2011
500 and Other Errors in Azure Deployments
So you’ve been working feverishly on your Windows Azure application, all your testing and...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/11/2011
A Geek’s Guide to Camping
As I look at my April schedule and a bit beyond, one thing is undeniable clear – there are a heck of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/08/2011
Learning Opportunities to Embrace the Cloud
In case there was ever a doubt that Microsoft is “all in” when it comes to the cloud, hopefully the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/06/2011
Dave Nielsen on Azure (video series)
At the beginning of March, I attended the MVP Summit in Redmond, along with a lot of my Evangelist...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/04/2011
Take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge!
Remember that playground game, Rock, Paper, Scissors? Well, that’s old school - it’s the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/31/2011
Imagine Cup People’s Choice Voting Thru April 9th
Imagine Cup highlights the best and brightest tech talented students from across the US and the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/23/2011
IE9… not so fast?
Like many, I installed IE9 today (on two machines, actually). I went right away to the Beauty...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/15/2011
Dressed to the 9
This is me in IE9, baby…. (with apologies to BNL) Hopefully by now you’re aware that Internet...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/15/2011
New England GiveCamp 2011
Last year, about 100 volunteers from across New England (and Virginia!) spent a weekend at the New...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/07/2011
MSDN and TechNet Events Coming to Waltham
With upcoming evangelist-hosted events spanning the cloud and the web, everyone’s a...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/07/2011
Silverlight Firestarter and Nerd Dinner This Week
It’s not too late to register for the Silverlight Firestarter for Windows 7 featuring my...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/20/2011
Cloudy @ NERD This Week
There are a few special events coming up this week at the Microsoft Research and Development Center...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/13/2011
When Worlds Collide–PowerBuilder User Group
Many of you know that I came to Microsoft after working for nearly twelve years at Sybase (now an...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/07/2011
Azure Startup Tasks and Powershell: Lessons Learned
Last weekend, I sat down to write the next blog post in my Azure@home series, covering the use of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/06/2011
Imagine Cup on .NET Rocks
Imagine Cup is a worldwide technology competition bringing together teams of students building...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 02/04/2011
Forecast: MIX
I was struck by the irony of viewing the local weather forecast shortly after learning about the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 01/25/2011
WebMatrix Launch–Today at CodeMash
Small.. simple.. and seamless. Those have been the primary messages since WebMatrix was...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 01/12/2011
Providence CMS Smackdown – Feb 1
For technologists today, there are often multiple choices of what platform to use, what tools, what...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 01/12/2011
Firestarter: Transforming IT with Cloud Computing
As a fitting complement to last Fall’s Windows Azure Firestarter series put on by my colleagues...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 01/09/2011
Azure@home Part 14: Inside the VMs
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 01/03/2011
Azure@home Part 13: Remote Desktop Configuration
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/28/2010
Firestarter: Silverlight for Windows 7
Here’s another free series of events brought to you in early 2011 by my East Coast colleagues: Dave...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/23/2010
Azure is Free… Times Three
I’d like to say the season of giving has inspired us, but that’s not really the case. Windows...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/22/2010
Announcing HTML5 Labs
The report of the completion of HTML 5 is an exaggeration. (with apologies to Mark Twain) As you...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/21/2010
Azure@home Part 12: The Move to SDK 1.3
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/13/2010
The Imagine Cup (of Coffee!)
As you may know, the United States, specifically New York City, will play host to the Imagine Cup...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/02/2010
Random Hacks of Kindness – Dec 5, 2010
Microsoft, along with ITA Software, CrisisCamp Boston, and the Boston University chapter of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 12/02/2010
Windows Azure: Shiny and New
If you attended PDC or have watched some of the sessions (all of which are available on demand...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/30/2010
Developer Guidance Maps
Wrapping your head around the latest Microsoft technologies is no easy task – there are a lot of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/24/2010
Showcase Your Windows 7 Application on CNET
One year after its release, adoption to the [Windows 7] desktop operating system is exceeding...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/12/2010
Silverlight Futures
Yes, despite some of the recent press and speculation, “Silverlight Futures” is NOT an oxymoron, and...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/12/2010
Azure@home Part 11: Worker Role Run Method (concluded)
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/10/2010
Rochester SharePoint User Group–Nov. 11th
If you haven’t already heard, the Rochester SharePoint User Group is kicking off this Thursday at...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/08/2010
BarCamp Manchester
Just a quick note to get the word out that BarCamp Manchester is open for registration! This...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 11/04/2010
New York Road Trip
I’m packing up for an I-90 run this week, taking me from Albany to Syracuse to Rochester and back...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/31/2010
Windows Azure for PHP and Java
Historically Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) is the pre-eminent developer...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/29/2010
PDC Live (Wherever You May Be!)
The 2010 edition of Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) kicks off tomorrow at the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/27/2010
Azure@home Part 10: Worker Role Run Method (continued)
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/27/2010
SharePoint Saturday–Hartford Call for Speakers
The success and enthusiasm of the multiple SharePoint Saturday events held in Waltham is spreading...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/25/2010
Azure@home Part 9: Worker Role Run method
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/18/2010
Azure@home Part 8: Worker Role and Azure Diagnostics
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/07/2010
Azure Firestarter Events
Hopefully you were able to attend the Windows Phone Firestarters and have already signed up for the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/07/2010