The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • Microsoft Ignite 2016

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    Just in case you missed the announcement over on the Microsoft Company News Site or on the Microsoft Twitter MS Ignite account, Microsoft Ignite will be taking place in Atlanta, GA in September 2016. Pre-Registration seems to have opened up to lock in a lower rate (woot!), available over at https://microsoft.eventcore.com/Ignite2016. I’m pretty excited about…

  • SharePoint Saturday NYC 2015

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    Another year, another July trip to New York City for SharePoint Saturday NYC. It’s like clockwork the way these folks run these events – great crew of organizers. I’m really looking forward to engaging with attendees and hearing their ideas during the session I’m presenting. It’s been two years since I’ve had the pleasure of…

  • Office DevCamps

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    The other day while recording Episode 15 of Brewery.fm with Scott Hoag, I remembered something that was tweeted about during //Build and that I’d received an email about earlier in the day as well – Office DevCamp. So we included it in the show and hoped that folks would consider checking it out – it’s a…

  • SPS DC Chevy Chase – Summer 2015

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    So for the past few years, myself and a few friends have been running the SharePoint Saturday Events DC events. As a part of these events we strive to improve upon each event to try to cater to the needs of the community and to help provide a setting for folks to come to an…

  • Good morning Ignite!

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    So one of my podcasts that I catch every morning is the Marketplace Tech podcast – interesting little bits of information that are shared that sometimes are random and sometimes are highly pertinent. This morning they had part one of a miniseries of conversations with Satya Nadella discussing the Ignite conference and the role of…

  • Brewery.fm – E13 – Bananas and Battleships

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    This week Scott Hoag and I covered a ton of the announcements from the first day of the Microsoft Build conference as well as getting up to speed with other recent announcements when it comes to Azure, Office 365 and even the Apple Watch. Several different topics have come up in the community recently comparing…

  • 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.

  • Running the Northern Virginia Mobile C# Developers Group with Ed Snider…

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    About a year ago, my friend Ed Snider and I started up the Northern Virginia Mobile C# Developer User Group. Mind you that this is not Ed Snider of the hockey world but a much cooler and tech friendly Ed Snider. Ed takes lead of the group most meetings as he’s the top notch developer…