Brian H. Prince

I just found out that I will be speaking at the Windows Azure Connections event, which is held in Las Vegas in March. I will be on a cloud discussion panel one of the evenings. We did that at the Fall Connections and it was a lot of fun.

I will also be delivering my “Making Crazy Money with Games in the Cloud” talk, which is always a lot of fun to give.

If you are going to be there, let me know, so we can grab dinner or something.

Hopefully you know about the awesome series of online events called DC4D (Day Camp for Developers). This is a day long online camp that teaches important developer skills.

In this third incarnation, the day’s theme will be around projects and project management. I will be presenting about some hands on Agile practices. This talk arose out of all of the Agile hype five years ago. The talks about Agile at the time were very inspirational, but short on ‘how’. People would get all wound up, get excited, run home, and then not know how to start. I developed the talk to show people exactly how we (at the time I didn’t work for Microsoft) did Agile. The goal was to show some of the simple things you can do, and to show that moving towards Agile is a long cultural shift, and not just ‘read a new book’ exercise.

I hope you can join us at DC4D.The day does cost $40, but that is a drop in the bucket compared to what you will learn over the day, and what it would cost to go to a conference far away.

I had a great time, as always, at the fifth CodeMash last week. I want to thank everyone for coming to my session on Windows Server AppFabric – Cache. Hopefully everyone enjoyed the talk.

You can download the slides from my SkyDrive account.

Cal Evans is throwing together an online event focusing on soft skills that developers need to move forward in their career, and be happy. If you read this blog, or follow me in any manner you know this is something I have had a lot of passion for for many years.

Since the event is online you can take part no matter where you are. If you attend, you will even be able to watch the sessions later on. This will be held on November 6th from 9a – 5p. There is a great lineup of speakers, including:

9:00 AM
Josh Holmes
“So you want to be an architect”

10:15 AM
Elizabeth Naramore
“Technical Writing”

1:00 PM
Scott Gordon
“Rocking your resume”

2:15 PM
Brian Prince
Actively managing your career

3:30 PM
Lorna Jane Mitchell
“Open Source your career”

Go to the site to get all of the details and sign up. Watch my twitter feed. I have to FREE passes to give away.When I mention I have a free pass, be the first to respond and it is yours.

Last week I was in lovely Kingsport, TN to speak at the Tri Cities .NET user group about the announcements we made at MIX. We had a great time. This is one of the few user groups I have visited that meet in a restaurant. They had great pizza, and that means something coming form an evangelist. We eat pizza at least 6-8 times a month. If you are in the area you need to check out the group.

I delivered a talk that did a quick lap around the announcements at MIX. This included some features of Visual Studio (which was just released), .NET 4, VB.NET, C#, Silverlight 4, and Windows Phone 7.

Jeff Blankenburg create the content I delivered. I have posted the slides to my skydrive.

Thanks for inviting me to speak!

I will be presenting on Federated Identity and Cloud Computing/Azure at the upcoming Kentucky Briefings. This is an open two day event geared for briefing you (from developers up to managers) on the Microsoft platform trends and directions.

You will need to register for each day separately. Some speakers are from Microsoft, and others are local experts and MVPs. I hope you can come out. Sorry for the craptacular tables below, but they are a listing of the agenda.

April 15th : Registration Link, registration code: CEWUG415

April 22nd: Registration Link, registration code: CEWUG422