
July 24, 2008
Another awesome CINNUG Tuesday as Joe Wirtley provided an enthusiasts overview of WPF and Parag Joshi showed us how to debug for the XBox with XNA. Although Joe sees himself as an enthusiast, he did a great job pointing out many of the deep and technical issues involved. WPF is one of the three pillars of .NET, the other two including WF and WCF. [...]

March 23, 2008
I’m sitting here watching West Virginia and Duke. 3:11 left, 62-51 WV!!! You GO HUGGINS! [...]

March 16, 2008
This week flew by with so much community activity going on. I have a couple more posts in the pipeline waiting for me to find time to finish them. With a fairly animated week ahead I’ll do my best to get this stuff out as quickly as I can.
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March 14, 2008
Wednesday, I attended the SPIN meeting where Parasoft CEO, Adam Kolawa, spoke to us about the software process that serves as a foundation for his latest book, Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Management. Joe Wirtley stepped up again and provided his input from Wednesday’s .NET User Group. The group brought in a well-known guest speaker. Joe, thanks for making sure this information made it into the community’s hands. [...]

February 27, 2008
I have to thank Joe Wirtley for covering the SQL Server Users Group this month. Joe, thanks for your contributions here.
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February 21, 2008
Joe Wirtley, guest blogger extraordinaire, gave me permission to re-post his notes from Wednesday’s Programmers’ Guild meeting. Joe definitley sees the value of the Programmer’s Guild. Read on to find out why. Thanks for your work, Joe!
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February 19, 2008
I can’t cover all the local events and remain married for long, so I’ve been tossing around ideas that would allow the groups I’m not well tied into to also showcase their work here. Guest blogging is one response to my constraints, and we’re going to try this today. I’ve mentioned Joe Wirtley before. Joe is a fairly well-known independent consultant in our local community. He wrote up Monday’s CINJUG and did a good job conveying the admittedly low-level technical details (read: if you’re not a coder, you might want to move along). He allowed me to re-post his efforts with some very minor editing. Joe, thank you for all your help here.
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