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One of my favorite hobbies is traveling. It's fun to dream about an amazing destination, plan the details of the trip, and then find yourself there. This summer, one of our destinations was Barcelona. A friend recently asked me for some recommendations...
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It was cool to see that one of my posts was referenced on this week's Channel 9: This Week on Channel 9: September 7th Check it out.
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You can now follow me on twitter: @DeborahKurata
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Had a GREAT time at Visual Studio Live in Redmond earlier this month. If you are looking for the sample code from my talks, you can find it here . Have feedback or questions from the talks? Feel free to post them in the comments below. Enjoy!
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The news about the orphaning of Silverlight hit me like a rock. I dove head first into Silverlight/MVVM a few years ago and had begun to feel like I could bend it to my will. I was disappointed, unhappy, and just sad about this news. Pair that with a...
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I am presenting "Microsoft Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, and Your Business Objects" at the Tech Ed 2011 conference in Atlanta on May 18, 2011. You can get the code for my talk from my company's Web site . Look for the Tech Ed 2011 entry...
Elisabeth Sladen died last week on April 19, 2011. If you are a Doctor Who fan, you know Elisabeth as Sarah Jane Smith , companion to doctor's three and four, a recurring character with the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant), and star of the Sarah Jane...
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In this prior post , I provided information on registering for the Visual Studio Live! conference on April 18-22  in Las Vegas and on the talks I am presenting at that conference. If you would like a "sneak peak" at the source code for...
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I am heading to London, Paris, Bruges, and Amsterdam later this week. Anyone have any suggestions for "must see" attractions or "must eat" restaurants? My oldest daughter has been doing her college semester abroad in London. She has...
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There is so much to know these days with all of the new technologies, techniques, and tools in Visual Studio and the .NET framework. How do you even decide which technologies deserve your attention and which you can "give a miss"? One of the...
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I was very honored to hear last week that I won one of the Microsoft MVP Forum awards for top answerers. With 2879 posts last year (2010), I was able to provide 1174 answers in the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories...
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The VSLive! conference in Orlando is coming up on November 14-17. If you would like a "sneak peak" at the source code for the two talks I am giving at that conference, you can get it all from my company's Web site . Enjoy!
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In this prior post , I provided information on registering for the Silicon Valley Code Camp on October 9 and 10, 2010 and on the talks I am presenting at that code camp. If you would like the source code for my two talks, you can get it all from my company's...
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The Silicon Valley Code Camp is coming up again on October 9th and 10th. There are over 190 sessions and over 1500 people registered so far for this FREE code camp. Topics cover: .NET Silverlight Visual Studio LightSwitch Agile development technologies...
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In this prior post , I provided information on registering for the VSLive! conference on August 2-6  in Redmond Washington and on the talks I am presenting at that conference. If you would like a "sneak peak" at the source code for my two...
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We are lucky to have two of Redmond's finest down here in Silicon Valley for a full day .NET 4.0 and VS 2010 event on May 15, 2010. Click here for more information or to register. I am happy to be providing one of the talks at the event. I am giving...
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If you are a designer, architect, or developer, you may spend many, many hours in your chair writing design documents, modeling systems, developing code, building unit tests, and so on. It is easy to sit down at 8 AM and realize at 1 PM that you have...
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We have the top experts on Entity Framework (EF) and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) coming to the San Francisco EastBay.NET User Group on March 3, 2010! Both Julie Lerman and Kathleen Dollard will be here. During the FUNdamentals portion of...
Don't know what I was thinking to vacation in New York in January! Burrrr! Had a great time though. Stayed at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square and could see the New Year's Eve ball from our window: Skated at Rockefeller Center: (That's...
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One of my friends sends an email message to me telling me about their great new job and letting me know that they have a new email address. I dutifully update my Outlook Address book and fix the address. Five unanswered emails later, I realize that I...
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