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Ok now that I have your attention (!), I am going to write a bit about my first experience at the international, annual Agile conference.  Agile 2011 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah last week.  I attended and spoke (on ‘Teaching Kids to Program Using Agile Practices’) and had a GREAT time.  This conference had 1600 people, from all over the world.  This year was the largest attendance at the annual conference on record. Attending and speaking at conferences is a large part of...

As I sit on yet another plane (flying over to Denmark to teach DigiGirlz there next week), I contemplate the conference I attended earlier this week and wanted to share here.  Agile Open Northwest 2010 was held in Seattle this year.  It’s held annually in Portland or Seattle.  So what happened there?   First, understand the ‘how’ – this is an OpenSpace event.  What that means is that the attendees set the agenda.  It is also a bargain (cost is minimal).  Now you...

And what happens then?  I attended the annual She’s Geeky unConference at the Computer History Museum in San Jose Feb 29-31, 2010 and had a great time.  Because, literally, no men are allowed (conference organizer’s rules – not mine), I thought I might share some of the highlights for the general developer population (my assumed blog audience). Kaliya Hamlin ( Identity standards expert and uber-geek) and her group of volunteers facilitate the 3-day unConference in a distinctive style. ...

Yes, I am a ‘calendar girl’, planning, planning, planning for 2010 already.  Lots has been filled in to my January 2010 calendar already, so I thought I’d share here. Week 1 – Jan 3 to Jan 9 Sat, Jan 9 -  9am to 5pm – ENVISION high school girls tech con at UCSD (opening speaker) Week 2 – Jan 10 to Jan 16 Mon, Jan 11 -  9am to 5pm – Client Visits (Azure prototyping) in LA Wed, Jan 13 -  5pm to 9pm – guest teaching at Wintress Technical School in San Diego Thurs, Jan 14 - 6pm to...

Well, it’s not me presenting, but it is the same content.  If you couldn’t make it to the Windows 7 launch event next Monday, October 26th starting at 9am, you can watch the live stream of the presentation of my developer evangelist colleague Daniel Egan and more presenting on Monday. Here’s the link for the live stream http://thenewefficiency.com/live For those of you who DID register for my event on the same day (in Orange), I am looking forward to seeing you and will have some special surprises...

Slides from #CloudCampSVCC – 5 minute time limit for my lightning talk.  It was also filmed, I’ll add the link after it’s published. What is Windows Azure? View more presentations from SoCalDevGal . Read More...

By popular demand I am attempting to aggregate SoCal Developer events on a monthly basis.  For October 2009 as follows below. I’ll be happy to add any developer events I may have missed, just send me mail via my blog. Week 1 (Sept 27 – Oct 3) Mon, Sept 28 – GirlsInTech / Santa Monica / 7pm - ‘How much can you say without tarnishing your brand? (social media) – I am speaking Wed, Sept 30 – CloudCamp / LA / MS Office / 6pm – I am attending, maybe speaking Sat, Oct 3 – Silverlight Education Day...

Lots to do (as always) – so, if you are looking to find me in September, I’ll make it easy.  This schedule is subject to revision. Week One Tues, Sept 1          Microsoft LA for IXDA launch event from 6pm to 9pm Wed, Sept 2           Microsoft Irvine for MSDN presents WPF Fundamentals with Paul Sheriff from 1pm to 5pm Thurs, Sept 3         Microsoft Irvine for...

Thursday was community party night at TechEd.  In addition to the attendee party, we in SoCal were able to invite around 300 people from the local tech community (who weren’t registered to attend TechEd).  It was really cool to see who turned out for our free food and drink, and then hung around for the social events, the Birds of a Feather informal tech sessions hosted by INETA, the women in tech event (more on that in the next blog post) and/or the speaker idol competition.  Here...

Well it wouldn’t be TechEd, if there weren’t one or more fun parties to attend, but I have to hand it to our corporate ITPro team this year.  Their Windows 7 SpringBoard party at the StandardLA was really great. The atmosphere was great – Stephen Rose (Sr. Community Manager Windows Client ITPro) was a great host.  He’s also been literally traveling the entire planet talking non-stop about Windows 7 .  If you know an ITPro – send them his way.   Joey Snow from TechNet Edge was...

All week at TechEd I worked in the Oslo booth in the SOA area.  I worked with Kris Horrocks , Miguel Llopis and Shy Cohen .  Kris and Miguel are on the Oslo product team and Shy is an architect and trainer, who recently left Microsoft after over 10 years in Redmond.  Working with Softies from the Product Team is always a treat because I get to ‘go deep’ into a technology.  This is definitely something I miss about my job as a broad reach developer evangelist.  I spent a good...

TechEd starts for me on Sunday, May 10.  Here’s where to find me day-by-day – if you can’t find me send me mail via this blog with your number and I’ll text you back. Sunday day - MVP event at LACC –or- .NET community event at USC night – SharePoint by Night Party, MCT party, or MCT ‘foodie’ meet up Monday morning – at the show afternoon – Oslo booth evening – Win7 party Tuesday morning – Oslo booth afternoon – MCT lounge, then book signing at TechEd bookstore (4pm – 5pm) evening – West Region...

Check out this great blog post one of our Architect Evangelists ( Bruce Kyle ) – filled with useful links.  Probably the best place to start learning about Win7 is to learn how to enable multi-touch .  Of course there is much more as well. http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/04/25/walkthrough-to-get-your-applications-ready-for-windows-7.aspx Watch my blog for more info, as I’ll be participating in the Win7 Developer’s Incubation week in our Irvine office all next week and will be...