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  • NOVA Code Camp 2015 Preview – Bart Loesley

    NOVA Code Camp 2015 Preview – Bart Loesley

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    Looking through the sessions that will be presented this coming Saturday at the Northern Virginia Code Camp hosted at the Reston Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA gets me pumped to see so many in the community presenting on hot topics that are key to staying relevant in this age of iterating forward with new…

  • NOVA Code Camp 2015 Preview – Ed Snider

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    While scrolling through the Sessions for this coming weekends Northern Virginia Code Camp, I came across one session that caught my eye and me glance not once, but twice… “Creating Apple Watch experiences with WatchKit and Xamarin” I thought to myself, “What in the world?!?!” But then I remembered that Ed Snider is a genius…

  • Northern Virginia Code Camp 2015

    Northern Virginia Code Camp 2015

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    If you’re looking to learn a bit more about some of the hottest technologies being used, check out the Northern Virginia Code Camp taking place on 18 April 2015 at the Reston Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA.

  • Windows 10 Technical Preview Hotfixes…

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    There are a few updates that were released for Windows 10 Preview (build 10049) today that might be of benefit to you. Like all hotfixes – if you’re not suffering from the issue or don’t require a particular feature, don’t install the hotfix. Nevertheless, the two that were released are: – Hyper-V cannot be enabled –…

  • April 2015 – Renewed as SharePoint Server MVP

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    So today is 1 April. Or April Fools Day. It’s also the first day of the 2nd quarter of the calendar year as we’ve braved the cold weather of January, February and March in the Northern Virginia area. The internet is full of shenanigan’s with things like the FitBit Tap or the Prank Pack Nap…

  • Brewery.FM – Episode 9

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    It hit the presses early this morning with our Army of squirrels editing and mixing this episode after we gave it our best shot to cover all the exciting updates from this past week in the world of Azure, SharePoint, Office 365 and comic books. Check it out over at http://pub.brewery.fm/brewery009 or subscribe to the podcast…

  • Microsoft Azure – PowerShell March 2015 Update

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    Without much fanfare, the Azure PowerShell commandlets have been updated as of 31 March 2015 to version 0.8.16. More pertaining to the update can be read here: – https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/tag/v0.8.16-March2015 If you’ve been watching the Azure Content repo on GitHub you probably noticed a ton of things pertaining to HDInsight being committed. Well, you guessed it,…

  • New MSDN SKUs announced for Visual Studio 2015

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    It would seem that the Visual Studio 2015 licensing SKUs are being announced now so as to provide organizations with a little time to ready themselves in terms of planning for software renewals and such with the new IDE coming out later this year. According to the Visual Studio Blog posted on 31 March 2015,…

  • Brewery FM – Episode 7 – Delving About Delve… Again

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    This week has been a little hectic between work, life and community, but somehow Scott Hoag and I were still able to get together for an hour and record another session of Brewery.fm. In this weeks episode, we call out Tim Ferro again – mostly because he asked us for some thoughts on an announcement…

  • OneNote Clipper 2.0…

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    One of the most overlooked tools of Office is OneNote. If you’re not using it, well, I’ve got questions for you, but I suppose if you’ve already made a large investment in something like EverNote, then I suppose it’s somewhat forgiven. Microsoft introduced OneNote Clipper back in March of 2004 through their Office Blogs. It…