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• Microsoft BizSpark for technology startups

  I love it when someone else writes up my blog postings for me! Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups. By joining BizSpark, Startups get: o Software :   fast and easy access to Microsoft... Posted Nov 21 2008, 07:37 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft

• Wishing you were at PDC? We saved the Jacksons & still get the content!

  Yes, I too wish I were in L.A. with all our geek friends.  But thanks to fellow VB MVP, Julia Lerman, she has helped point out how we can view all the content at PDC without spending the thousands of dollars and travel time. http://blogs.eweek.com... Posted Oct 29 2008, 11:21 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Programming, Microsoft

• Letter from Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft

  I occasionally receive letters sent out to the Industry Executives from the top dogs at Microsoft.  Here’s the one I just received outlining their newest initiative called Windows Azure, which was just announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers... Posted Oct 28 2008, 07:03 PM by Randy Walker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft

• 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, lol. One of the many things I'm passionate about is software startups. Since I haven't... Posted Aug 07 2008, 06:05 AM by Randy Walker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Presentations, ISV, Microsoft, Accomplishments, Business Help, Partner Program, devLink

• Nashville devLink conference sold out!

  August 22-23 For those that don't know, devLink in Nashville is one of the best (if not THE best) community driven conferences out there. I'm super excited to have been invited by John Kellar to host a couple of the Open Spaces sessions. If you... Posted Jul 30 2008, 03:36 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Microsoft, Local Events, Accomplishments, devLink

• Microsoft congregates it's ads under one flag "Microsoft Advertising"

  Exactly two months ago Microsoft sent me an email introducing it's new branding called " Microsoft Advertising " (note that the page is presently erroring out). Personally I think the new branding is a step forward, as I never cared for... Posted Jul 21 2008, 07:18 AM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Advertising, adCenter

• 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 VB MVP Lead at Microsoft. The funny story about Ed is, less than a week after Ed awarded me the MVP status... Posted Jun 05 2008, 01:07 AM by Randy Walker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Microsoft, MVP, Visual Basic

• Tell Internet Explorer 8 Beta to show your site properly using IE7

  For those that want your website to render correctly on IE8, the recent newsletter gave a great example for enforcing IE7 compatibility via a Meta tag. (You can see the new IE logo above) Per Site Basis: Site owners and administrators can include the... Posted Jun 04 2008, 11:30 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Programming, Microsoft

• Microsoft adCenter needs a workshop?

  While I love Microsoft's developer products, adCenter (Microsoft's search advertising / pay per click) makes me want to hide in shame. See the email I received below. I completely understand the desire of AdCenter to educate the masses, but do... Posted May 19 2008, 04:07 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, adCenter

• Received Microsoft MVP award

  Ok, so my announcement is 6 days late. I'm proud to announce that I received the coveted Microsoft MVP award for Visual Basic (currently the only MVP in Arkansas). I'd first like to thank the Academy ... oh wait wrong speech again. Actually I... Posted Apr 06 2008, 02:51 AM by Randy Walker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Accomplishments, NWA DNUG, MVP

• Join the Microsoft Game Studios Beta Program

  If you're interested in joining Microsoft's beta program for games, you'll be interested in the following email I received. We are gearing up for a year of great betas. To prepare for these upcoming betas we have a new survey on the beta website... Posted Mar 22 2008, 12:30 AM by Randy Walker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Gaming

• Heroes Happen Here Official Launch boasts Silverlight website

  Participate in Live, Virtual, or Hosted Events I received this today via e-mail. You will eventually be able to watch the keynote and other speakers at the official west coast launch. The Silverlight app is definitely more feature rich than many of the... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:57 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Microsoft

• Free Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008

  Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft released a free PowerToy for VS2008. The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly... Posted Feb 03 2008, 11:36 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Programming, Microsoft

• Microsoft Small Business Show & Silverlight fakeout

  Microsoft is on their 2nd Small Business Show which features "Solutions for Entrepreneurs". You can view the show here . I thought it was interesting that up in the top left Microsoft tells you to Install Silverlight (competitor to Adobe Flash... Posted Jan 28 2008, 09:39 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Business Help, Partner Program

• More free Microsoft Partner Training

  Here are some more FREE Partner Partner Training Labs: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Virtual Training (6 parts) What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Database Administrators Implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 Working with the New DATE... Posted Jan 28 2008, 08:31 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Training, .Net, Microsoft, Partner Program