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Career
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When the Recruiter Becomes the Bottleneck
A technology leader shares his experience navigating a broken hiring process — and what recruiters can do better.
MVP Summit here we come!
It’s always my favorite time of the year! Looking forward to bringing my wife to the largest events for Microsoft MVP Award winners. Each year is a pl…
INETA Speakers Bureau Update
As most of you know, I serve on the INETA (International .Net Association) Board of Directors, being in charge of the Speakers Bureau and other Speake…
INETA Board of Directors Conference Call
I’m currently on my first INETA Board of Directors Conference Call and I thought I’d keep people updated on what’s going on, as there’s some really go…
INETA Board of Directors Appointment
INETA has a great gimmick. Give someone a award and then recruit them to do volunteer work! While I am completely joking, I was recently appointed to …
Ozarks .Net User Group – Claudio Lassala (Laptop giveaway)
I wanted to make sure and draw attention to the effort that [Brandon King](http://www.peleta.com) in Harrison, Arkansas has given towards promoting th…
Northwest Arkansas Technology Council Inaugural Meeting 2009-03-10
This is an open invitation to join us in helping form the Northwest Arkansas Technology Council. The discussion for the inaugural meeting will center …
INETA Community Champion Awardee
I was a bit shocked when I received the email announcing that I am one of ten Community Champions awarded. A huge thank you to those that nominated me…
Upcoming Developer Events
Jan 29 – [Holiday Party](https://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=5664) @ Fast Lanes, Lowell, Arkansas [Northwest Arkansas .Net User G…
Inaugural Harrison .Net User Group meeting Oct 21st 2008
I’m happy to announce that [Brandon King](http://www.peleta.com) has organized the first Harrison .Net User Group meeting for Oct 21st, 2008. The meet…
Come catch me at Tulsa TechFest 2008, Oct 9-10th
Please join me in Tulsa on October 9th & 10th for the annual Tulsa TechFest event! I’ve had several people ask me about when I’ll be doing my Small Bu…
Jonesboro & Harrison are getting .Net User Groups
For those living in the Northeast Arkansas / Jonesboro and Harrison areas, there will be two new .Net User Groups. Details are still pending, but if y…
Memphis .Net User Group visit Sept 25th
For those in East Arkansas and West Tennessee, I’ll be visiting the [Memphis .Net User Group](http://memphisdot.net/) on September 25th 2008. [David M…
Nashville devLink Recap
One of the most interesting things about being a software developer is to see the entire undercurrent and subculture of the industry. It really makes …
devLink Presentation Files, Discount Codes & Links
As promised, here is the link to [download](http://dq15kw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1plC27HBm31FO0vX3AT12vbezHqrrnXHVfjHWxOFsXFlQcFrage0IzDpF3jWDW3M5dcS4…
Jeffrey Palermo set to speak Thursday in Northwest Arkansas
For those that weren't able to attend last Tuesday's Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting, 8/5/2008, Zach Young (our Vice President of the group…
Speaking at Nashville devLink
It's always an honor to be asked to speak at an event. Fortunately John Kellar who chairs the Nashville devLink event hasn't heard about my reputation…
Nashville devLink conference sold out!
August 2223 For those that don't know, [devLink](http://www.devlink.net/) in Nashville is one of the best (if not THE best) community driven conferenc…
Go visit the Visual Basic Product Team at TechEd!
It was this time last year at TechEd that Cory Smith introduced me to the Visual Basic product team. He first introduced me to Ed Hickey, who is the V…
MVP Summit, Being Busy, plus Presenting @ the Little Rock .Net User Group
I suppose I was naive in thinking that once I received my Microsoft MVP award, I could breathe a bit. But we've had sooo much Developer Community acti…
Pictures of the 1st Fort Smith .Net User Group Meeting
A bit thank you goes out to Anthony Potts for sharing these pictures. [ Texas. This event used to be known as the Dallas Code …
Winner of 6th place at Community-Credit.com
I wanted to thank David Silverlight for doing a wonderful service to the programming community. For my involvement in the world wide programmer commun…
Community Credit - They give stupid prizes to smart people
In my last post about joining the geekswithblogs community, I mentioned the [Community Credit](http://www.communitycredit.com/) folks. The wonderful t…
How to Submit a Proposal to Speak at TechEd US 2008
With the help of [Chris Koenig](http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig/) blog site, I was finally able to track down the link and information on how to submit…
Tulsa InstallFest = Tons of fun
A big thanks goes out to [Chris Koenig](http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig/) and the [Tulsa DNUG](http://www.tulsadnug.org) for hosting the Tulsa InstallF…