I'll be presenting at VS Live! December 10-14 [http://bit.ly/VOSPK19] in Orlando, FL. I'll be presenting Azure Web Sites. This is the session abstract: Azure Web Sites brings a whole new level of power and simplicity to cloud computing. This demo-heavy session will show numerous features that allow you to deploy your site in a matter of seconds. Whether you are building a completely custom app or deploying from one of the numerous templates provided (such as WordPress), you'll be up and runnin...

Thanks to everyone who attend the C-Sharpen Up full-day event yesterday in Philly. It was a great event. The code samples and PowerPoint from my presentation can be found here [https://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=michelotti&ReleaseId=3289] ....

On October 6th, I'll be presenting at C-Sharpen Up [http://csharpenup20121006.eventbrite.com/] at Philly.NET at the Microsoft Malvern, PA location. I'll be presenting along with Stephen Bohlen, Andy Schwam, and Danilo Diaz. This is a great one-day event that covers real-world usage of all major C# language features from C# 1.0 to C# 5.0. It also includes a great presentation on the SOLID principles by Stephen Bohlen. Registration won't be open much longer. You can register here [http://csharpen...

Thanks to everyone who attended my Azure presentation this past weekend at the TechGate conference [http://www.techgateconference.com/] in Reston. The code samples can be found here [https://github.com/smichelotti/TeamPortal]....

Lately I've been playing with Kendo UI Mobile [http://www.kendoui.com/mobile] to build iPhone apps. It's similar to jQuery Mobile [http://jquerymobile.com/] in that they are both HTML5/JavaScript based frameworks for buildings mobile apps. The primary thing that drew me to investigate Kendo UI was its innate ability to adaptively render a native looking app based on detecting the device it's currently running on. In other words, it will render to look like a native iPhone app if it's running on...