Category: announcements

The Dew Returns Tomorrow, March 20, 2013

It’s alive!!!!

I am back from vacation, and ready to ramp things up again.

I will be putting together a Best Links post this weekend, aggregating the best of the best from the two weeks I was away. If you want to view all of my Google Reader starred items, you can get the feed here:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F15217774922118815663%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred

Thanks for continuing to read The Morning Dew. I hope everyone has found a new favorite blog reader/aggregator to replace Google Reader. I am going to give NewsBlur a try.

Alvin

Win an eBook – Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices by Peter Ritchie

[EDIT: Winners have been chosen and will be contacted shortly!]

Win A free copy of the ‘Visual Studio 2010 best practices’, just by commenting!

For the contest we have two eBook copies of Visual Studio 2010 Best Practicesto be given away to two lucky winners.

How you can win:

To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up with a comment below highlighting the reason “why you would like to win this book”.

Duration of the contest & selection of winners:

The contest is valid for 7 days, and is open to everyone. Winners will be selected on the basis of their comment posted.

Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices is written by Peter Ritchie, the president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co. a software consulting company.

This book covers all the essential areas of Visual Studio such as advanced C# syntax and asynchronous programming in C#. This book delves into step-by-step instructions that highlights various techniques to design multi-threaded, parallel and distributed systems, and learn better ways to develop web services with WCF and design automated tests.

Along with providing consolidated reference of varied practices and using tips and tricks to test complex systems, readers will also learn to understand proven ways of deploying software systems in windows and learn source code control.

 

Programming Skills a Little Dull? Why Don’t You C-Sharpen Up with Philly .NET on 6-Oct-2012?

In case you missed my link to Steve Michelotti’s post about C-Sharpen Up in this morning’s Dew Drop, you can read that here. Here’s a blurb:

On October 6th, I’ll be presenting at C-Sharpen Up at Philly.NET at the Microsoft Malvern, PA location. I’ll be presenting along with Stephen Bohlen, Andy Schwam, and Danilo Diaz.

This is an encore presentation of the popular C-Sharpen Up event held by the Philly .NET User Group this past spring. Don’t be fooled, this is not an Intro to C#. This event is aimed at developers who are experienced in C# and want to take their skills to the next level. Learn some LINQ, Lambdas, SOLID principles and unit testing practices from some of the best in the region.

The event is on 10/6 from 8:00am – 4:30pm, and it will very likely sell out. Go! Register now! Tell ‘em I sent you. You won’t get a prize for that, but you might get a dirty look or two.  Winking smile

 

– Alvin