Archive for the Arkansas Category

Looking for a User Group?

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

Then I know the place to go! For a while now, I’ve been maintaining a list of User Groups that meet in my part of the world – TX, OK, LA and AR.  It’s not a comprehensive list (at least I’m pretty sure it’s not) but I’d like it to be.  It’s essentially a listing [...]

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NWA TechFest–Friday, March 25th

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Coming to the Center for Non-Profits @ St. Mary’s, for the second year in a row, is the fabulous Northwest Arkansas TechFest! For those new to TechFest, it is a technical conference with a primary focus to provide training/teaching sessions that are immediately beneficial to the broadest range of IT professionals in their day-to-day jobs. [...]

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Unleash Your Coding Genius with Web Camps!

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Starting in March 2011, we’re rolling out a series of 12 Web Camps in the Central US. Microsoft’s Web Camps are events designed to teach you all about building websites using ASP.NET MVC, WebMatrix, OData and more. We’ve held Web Camps all around the world over the past few years, but we’re taking them to [...]

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Windows Azure Bootcamps

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Windows Azure Boot Camp is a two day deep dive class to get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep, real world experience with Azure, as well as a series of labs so you can practice what you just learned. Agenda Intro to Cloud Computing and [...]

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Venue Change for Little Rock WP7 Bootcamp

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

Hey everyone – if you’re planning to attend the WP7 Bootcamp event in Little Rock on Wednesday, the venue has changed!  Please make a note of the new location: University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801  S. University Avenue Little Rock, AR 72204 Room: Reynolds College of Business Room 108

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Windows Phone 7 BootCamp Coming Soon!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Start Dreaming. Start Building. There has been a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement in the developer community as we get ready to launch Windows Phone 7. There have been over 300,000+ downloads of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools as developers are eager to take advantage of this next wave of computing. To help [...]

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NWA CodeCamp

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

Saturday, October 23, 2010 – http://nwacodecamp.org In the fine tradition of other great CodeCamp events across the world, the Northwest Arkansas developer community has announced their next CodeCamp, scheduled for October 23rd at the Tyson World Headquarters in Springdale, AR.  The event is free to attend, and there are several great tracks being planned including [...]

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Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Are you ready to gain access to the latest tools, turning your hobby into a source of revenue, or expand your network? Stop dreaming. Start building. Join us for a new series of Windows Phone 7 Bootcamps where you can get an inside track on how to be part of the next step of Microsoft’s [...]

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CodeJam Comes to NWA

Posted on July 6, 2010 by

In case you’ve been living under a rock, you might not know that the Northwest Arkansas area hosts an AMAZING developer community that has become exceptionally active over the last 2-3 years. Along with this week’s NWA TechFest, This weekend will host their first (and hopefully frequent) CodeJam.  The CodeJam is designed to help the [...]

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NWA TechFest is Almost Here!

Posted on June 16, 2010 by

The time has come to add another fine event to the TechFest family – Northwest Arkansas TechFest 2010 Scheduled for Thursday, July 8th at the Center for Nonprofits in Rogers, Arkansas, NWA TechFest is a community-organized, community-staffed technical conference with a primary focus on providing training/teaching sessions that are immediately beneficial to the broadest range [...]

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