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Austin Texas The Techie Town

March 1, 2010

If there’s one impression that Austin left on me, besides the one that Rudy’s “extra moist” barbecue left on my gut, is that it’s a developer friendly town. This past week I spent three days in Austin meeting with all sorts of developers and had many great conversations about technology. I met with companies and people with a passion for technology that couldn’t be suppressed. Meeting with Dell The reason I was in town was to give a couple of presentations at a mini-conference for Dell employees. On my first day in Austin, the day before the conference, I met with a team working on the next generation of Dell.com . The site is undergoing a large scale rearchitecture based heavily on ASP.NET MVC 2. I fielded some questions on ASP.NET MVC and...(read more)

Headed To Austin and Speaking at the .NET User’s Group

February 8, 2010

The stars at night, are big and bright – clap clap clap clap – deep in the heart of Texas ! Hold onto your ten gallon hats, I’m visiting Texas for the first time! I’m very excited to visit the second largest state in the union. ;) The purpose of my trip is to meet with some developers at Dell doing interesting things and to give a talk there as well. But since I’ve heard such good things about the vibrant tech community in Austin, I am trying to make the most of my short trip. On Thursday, February 25, I’ll be speaking at Austin .NET User Group meeting at 5:30 PM CST ( Location TBD, I’ll post it here when I find out or follow @ehexter on Twitter ) . So be sure to come by and say hello. I’m also going to visit my good friends at Headspring as...(read more)