NoVa CodeCamp is back hosting its first event of the year on Saturday, June 12th. The venue for this event is the Microsoft Office Facilities located at 12012 Sunset Hills Rd, Reston, VA. I’ve decided to submit a session for this year, but this time under different topic than the usual .NET or DotNetNuke development. Inspired by Steve Fabian’s last visit to the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, I have decided to present on something more flashy, more cool, more jQuery! Unlike Steve’s session though, I will not use DotNetNuke as the syndicator of the data; time permitt... [More]

On March 2nd, 2010 I will be speaking at the Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals about the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the *goodness* it brings to .NET developers across the globe. I am really excited to be doing this talk at CMAP because I have never spoken at this User Group, and secondly because I get to share some exciting new features of VS2010 with the audience. I hope you can make it there; here is the abstract: A Sneak Peek of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Rumor has it that Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is riding the nex... [More]

On December 15th, 2009 I will be speaking at the CapArea.net User Group about the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the *goodness* it brings to .NET developers across the globe. I am really excited to be doing this talk, first, because I have never spoken at this User Group (which happens to be my home group), and secondly because it forces me to dig deep into Visual Studio 2010 to find some hidden gems that I hope to share with the audience. I hope you can make it there; here is the abstract: A Sneak Peek of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Rumor has... [More]

If you live in the Washington DC area you cannot help but be consumed with the constant news about the presidential inauguration and related events. Never have been so many streets been closed, and never has the anticipation of the attendance of million people been so high. With that being said, and although I am not looking forward to the chaos that the inauguration promises to bring, I am very excited to have Joe Brinkman, DotNetNuke Corp. Co-Founder and Technical Fellow, come to our User Group to give a presentation on DotNetNuke and JQuery. Here is the abstract: ... [More]

I was updating my professional profile on LinkedIn the other day, and I realized that there was a lot missing about what I do. In essence my profile contained a lot of the stuff I did for a living, but not was lacking all the work I do on volunteer basis. All the community contributions such as speaking, organizing, writing etc, was left out all together. I decided to start compiling a list of my community contribution and while I am sure I missed some things, here is what I came up with so far: Open Source Projects DotNetNuke Core Team Member DotNetNu... [More]

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I had a great time speaking at the RockNUG (Maryland .net User Group) this past Wednesday, October 8th, 2008. RockNUG hosts their meetings at the Montgomery College Campus, and I have to admit, it felt really weird standing in front of a full classroom while "playing professor"; If you were in school with me you'd understand where I am coming from... trust me, I paid a couple of visit to the principle's office quite a few times. If only my teachers and professors could see me now, ha! The presentation was called &qu... [More]

Following my CodeCamp Presentation back in May of this year I was invited to do a repeat of my "DotNetNuke Module Development" talk for the Rockville (Maryland) .net User Group. Tomorrow night (10/8/2008) I will have the pleasure of spending the evening with .net and DotNetNuke enthusiast alike, and am privileged to share my knowledge on the topic. I am also happy to see that the RockNUG website is powered by DotNetNuke, as are many user group websites in the DC area. Event Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 6:30-9:00 PM Event Location: Montgomery College, ... [More]

The slides and code of my presentation from last Saturday's "Developing DotNetNuke Modules" presentation were posted on the NoVa Code Camp South website. Thanks to everyone that attended the event, and my session (of course). I had a great time attending other great sessions as well as doing my own presentation. For those of you who could not make it this time, but are still interested in learning more about DotNetNuke, I have volunteered to do the same presentation at the Reston Code Camp in May '08. None of the sessions have been confirmed yet, but I will... [More]

For those of you who are in the Washington DC metro area and are interested in learning more on building DotNetNuke Modules, I will be presenting at NoVa CodeCamp South on Saturday, March 29th at the Strayer University Woodbridge Campus. NoVa CodeCamp is a free all-day developer event and has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. My presentation, Developing DotNetNuke Modules, is scheduled for Saturday from 1:00pm - 2:15.pm  Registration is limite... [More]

The Capital DotNetNuke User Group, Capital Area .net User Group and the NOVA SQL User Group have teamed up with Microsoft in hosting our December meeting which will take place on the evening of the 12th. This will be a night of geeking, gaming, and networking while Microsoft provides 100 people with 90-day trial DVDs for Visual Studio 2008 Professional accompanied by vouchers for the full version. There will be extra benefits to those installing Visual Studio 2008 during the event, so bring your laptop, ask Santa for an external hard drive and bring that too! Seats ... [More]

Last year I founded and begun organizing the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, a group dedicated to all DNN professionals, enthusiasts and hobbyists alike. Although running a user group has not been as easy and glamorous as I originally anticipated it does give me a great sense of accomplishment especially on nights like Thursday, June 21st, 2007. Thursday night I had the pleasure (again! ;-)) to do the honors and do a presentation on building a DotNetNuke module using the DotNetNuke Visual Studio StarterKit. Attendance was great, pizza, chicken wings and drinks we... [More]

Yesterday, February 21st was a great day. We have our very first DotNetNuke User Group! The meeting worked out pretty well. We had about 15 people from the expected 21. Nik did the honors by being the presenter. He showed the group how to build a web part implement third party componets. In his demo, Nik showcased ComponentArts controls. As is usual, we had pizzas and sodas for everyone and the BIForce guys showed some of their modules as well. In our next meeting we are going to be giving every attendant a DotNetNuke official t-shirt - just for attending. That sh... [More]

Finally, we (Nik Kalyani & Me) have been able to launch this user group! Our first meeting will be held tomorrow at 7:00PM at 1919 Gallows Rd Suite 400, Vienna, VA 22182. A lot of people, including myself have long awaited for this to happen. I hope we get good attendance. The rest will be up to us, the organizers, to prepare interesting agendas and especially base them on user requests. To this end, we have creating the Group's Site at http://www.capitaldug.org - check it out, and if you are in the DC area make sure you sign up! We also hope to get sponsorshi... [More]