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Silverlight for Beginners: Tomorrow at Webtrends in Portland

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:54:12 +0000

I’m giving a talk tomorrow!

What’s this Silverlight Stuff?

Are you interested in what Silverlight is and what it can do? How does it compare to HTML 5? These questions and more will be answered by Microsoft Silverlight MVP Erik Mork. It’s going to be a fun night of info for Silverlight beginners. Also not to be missed: a Silverlight Ninja will be designed before your eyes.

WHERE: Webtrends (map)

(16th Floor)
851 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204-1337

WHEN: Tuesday 06/08/2010
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD

Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

Vertigo – http://www.vertigo.com
Webtrends – http://www.webtrends.com

Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:18:17 +0000

I was interviewed by Tim Huckaby for the great MSDN Bytes Series. It’s a super fun interview where he asks me what it’s like to be a Silverlight Trainer and Consultant. Tim’s one of the best interviewers in the business, and his series is a pleasure to watch.

MSDN Bytes Interview With Erik Mork

After-Mix Silverlight and the Phone in the Pub

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:00:21 +0000

Interested in what happened at Mix? Want to hear about the new phone? This month, we held off the Portland Silverlight User Group meeting for the Mix conference and boy are we glad we did We’re going to have a low-key meeting in the new Lucky Lab and talk about the developments. Do you write Silverlight or XNA? If so, you just became a phone developer. Join us to help figure out what that means. People from Mix will be talking about what they learned and how the world has changed.

When:
Tuesday March 23, 2010 6pm-8pm (tomorrow!)

Where:
New Lucky Lab in North Portland-*
1700 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&ss=ypid.YN720×12477952&encType=1
(*-The pub is so new that I have to use a link to the old restaurant that was there – Roux)
Sponsors
Location Sponsors:
Lucky Lab
Webtrends

Platinum Sponsors:
Vertigo
Meridian

Equipment Sponsors:
Silverlight Tour

Sparkling Client in Minneapolis – Nerd Dinner

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:19:55 +0000

Erik is in Minneapolis teaching the Silverlight Tour class. Interested in a Nerd Dinner tonight (Monday 3.1.2010)? We’re meeting at Schuller’s Tavern in Golden Valley at 6pm.

Nerd Dinner in Portland February 2010

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:29:35 +0000

There’s going to be a Nerd Dinner tonight 2/23 at 6pm. We’re going to meet in the food court at Pioneer Place Mall (bottom floor – http://www.pioneerplace.com/).

Who’s going to be there?

Erik Mork/Kelly White – Portland Silverlight User Group/Sparkling Client folks.
Jason Mauer – Newly independent developer. Hopefully, he’ll bring his new “Troll Video” he plans to show at Ignite Portland.
Mithun Dhar – Microsoft Evangelist/Azure aficionado/good person to know
Lots of other good company

I’ve got to stop by the Genius Bar shortly before and get the lint cleaned out of my iPhone.

Shawn Wildermuth – Portland Silverlight User Group

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:25:26 +0000

Silverlight QA and Conversation with Shawn Wildermuth
Feb 19th at Webtrends 6pm – *This is a Friday (not our usual day)*
Do you have questions about Silverlight? Shawn’s the person to ask. He’s full of Silverlight knowledge, and he’s coming to Portland to have a conversation with us. Shawn is extremely well known and respected in the Silverlight community, and it’s going to be a real treat to have him. If you want to have a complex and nuanced discussion about Silverlight, join us for this meeting.

Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com).

Warmup: Operating System in Your Browser Window
At the beginning of the meeting (6pm), Marc Schulper will show us how to write Silverlight applications for a web based operating system.

WHEN: Friday 02/19/2010 – *This is a Friday (not our usual day)*
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo) 6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD

WHERE: Webtrends (map)
851 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204-1337

Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
* Vertigo – http://www.vertigo.com
* Webtrends – http://www.webtrends.com

Getting There:
Trimet. I recommend taking Trimet to this event. Check out the map to see the tons of Max/etc. stops nearby.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=webtrends+in+portland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.77044,117.949219&ie=UTF8&hq=webtrends&hnear=Portland,+OR&ll=45.518113,-122.678565&spn=0.00557,0.014398&z=17&iwloc=A
Parking. I recommend Smart Parks:
http://maps.google.com/maps?near=851+Southwest+6th+Avenue,+Portland,+OR+97204-1307+(Webtrends+Inc)&geocode=CZtaax3F1n_AFfqMtgIdhxCw-CFZtU_2hrTHig&q=%22Smart+Park%22&f=l&dq=webtrends+loc:+portland&sll=45.518074,-122.679161&sspn=0.011831,0.006499&ie=UTF8&ll=45.519218,-122.67643&spn=0.022281,0.057592&z=15

Portland Silverlight User Group

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:50:05 +0000

The Portland Silverlight User Group is off to a great start! It’s been an amazing group to be a part of, and for the first 2 meetings, we’ve had 70+ people. This, perhaps, makes the Portland Silverlight User Group the largest Silverlight UG in the world We’ve had rocking great speakers like Scott Stanfield and Mike Downey and stupendous sponsors amazing sponsors like Vertigo and Webtrends and FiServ.

Upcoming we have a hackathon in January and Shawn Wildermuth coming in February!

People are talking about how 2010 is going to be the year of Silverlight. Come to one of our meetings, and you’ll find out what the fuss is about.

Scott Stanfield on the awesomeness of Silverlight

Mike Downey on Flash and Silverlight

How to pick the right frameworks for building Silverlight Applications

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:46:46 +0000

If you’re at the PDC conference in LA, I’m doing a Birds of a Feather session on Thursday at 8:30am. It’s going to be a community talk about the right tools to use in Silverlight. Data Access, Prism, Unity, MEF, RIA Services, Unit Testing, are the sort of things we’ll be talking about. It’s going to be a fun discussion!