TWC9: Asli Bilgin, Halloween, VS2010, and community events

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Oct 31st @ 4:38 PM | 34,264 Views | 21 Comments
This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Asli Bilgin to discuss the week's top developer news including:

- We discuss Asli's blog, Sling Alibi, and her changing role from working in the east region to working in Dubai.
- Asli's east region team has a dedicated portal on Channel 9 with news, events, etc
- Andrew Duthie - CommunityMegaphone.com - The goal is to be the single source for Microsoft and community events
- Andrew's countdown to the Visual Studio 2010 launch gadget using Silverlight
- Scott Guthrie -Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010, covers Navigate To, View Call Hierarchy, and Highlight references features
- Scott Guthrie - WPF 4 Improvements including new controls, performance, caching, easing, and more
- Pete Brown - Walkthrough of the new WPF 4 Calendar Control
- Brian Peek - Coding4Fun Show - WPF Media Kit with Jeremiah Morrill
- Lester Lobo - New WPF Beta 2 includes Windows 7 Jumplist support
- Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Team Blog - Windows 7 Trigger Start Services Part 1
- Joe Healy - Windows 7 Multitouch and TouchPack video
- Gunnar Peipman - The .NET Framework 4.0 string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() method for finding empty spaces, line breaks, tabs, etc
- Sara Chipps - Bundl.it, a way to share multiple links via Twitter
 - Phil Haack - ASP.NET Web Server here Explorer extension to easily pull up an ASP.NET page through a browser
- Dmitry Lyalin, Peter Laudati - Connected Show podcast for all things interoperability
- Zhiming Xue - ArcCast.TV, Cx0 Level discussion on Cloud computing
- Startuponestop.com, Resources for helping startups get off the ground
- Girl Geek Dinners - A way for women in technology to get together to discuss and learn
- Girls in Tech - An organization dedicated to getting more women in technology
- Lynn Langit - Teaching kids to code and how to move projects from Small Basic to Visual Basic Express

Picks of the week:
Asli's pick - David Isbitski - Setting up a development environment on a Netbook
Dan's pick - Laura Foy - Bug Killer - A Channel 9 Halloween special
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#Nov 2nd @ 3:47 PM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw

Paradoxical problem/solution may set resolve but that resolve is wasted if you dont actually solve anything.. looking at some of your blogs,i am plesently suprised, from the ones ive looked at you do seem branch out of the gender corner of diversitymore than im used to. but still, gender is still the main focus [do you disagree?]

 

but still, i think you're knocking in open doors.. who is the audience of the events?  i doubt its pople that actually need convincing,.. i still think this focus on gender is a mistake, gender doesnt matter.. only skillz do. your focus should be skillz, not gender, thats all im saying

#Nov 2nd @ 3:58 PM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw

to give you more of a straight awnser, i would describe them as "organizers of an outing to discuss the latest in programming and how they would approach the design and utility of resultant products or solutions" 

ritzy is the owner of pdc, yet its not called girl developers conference [but then again, gdc is busy Tongue Out ]

#Nov 5th @ 1:18 PM
ITGEMGIRL
ITGEMGIRL

The only thing I want to say is that we are being very productive with Girl Geek Dinners in NYC. Women want to discuss topics that deal with what the everyday woman encounters in the IT world.  Let’s face it in today’s Technology field there are more men than women working. We need a community in order to empower women to want to be a part of the technology field.   Just as there are Guy Geek Dinners out there for the Men. Angel

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