Coding Geekette

For those of you who’ve seen Brian Prince‘s “Soft Skillz” talks, you’ll know that politics is one of those topics that shouldn’t be talked about among certain audiences. However, Jeff Blankenburg has decided to hold a contest that deals with politics. MSNBC has a neat WPF app that you can use to make predictions for [...]

When many people first meet me and see my last name, they become so intimidated. I can’t blame them, honestly. “Dutkiewicz” is a Polish last name that’s pronounced nothing like how it looks, which makes it very intimidating. But like I tell everyone who’s run up to my name, I’ve always had an easily mispronounced [...]

Yesterday, I had the privilege to present at Software Freedom Day - Cleveland on python, what it is, and who’s using it. I was hoping to get more in detail with my presentation, but other circumstances wouldn’t let me get that in depth. Therefore, I will have more posts here hopefully over the next couple [...]

I’d like to introduce Cleveland Tech Events. Cleveland has a very widespread technical community, but I’ve found that a lot of people haven’t heard of the other groups in the area. In an effort to bring the groups together so that we can have a wider audience to get event information out, I’ve set up [...]

How many of you are familiar with Live Mesh? If you aren’t familiar with it, you should check it out. Better yet, go check out Jeff Blankenburg’s blog, as he enjoys talking about Live Mesh. Or better yet… come on out to the next Greater Cleveland PC Users Group VB.NET/C# SIG meeting, this coming Thursday, [...]

As I mentioned in my Ann Arbor Day of .NET 2008 recap, I was given a marker and was told to write down what people were saying during Brian Prince‘s “How to Be an Architect” talk. Is that really a good idea? We’ll let you decide… First of all, an architect is… One of the [...]

This weekend, I was up in Ann Arbor for Ann Arbor Day of .NET. I arrived there on Friday, where I hung out with a group of friends for a bit before having to head back to the hotel to finish my presentation. Saturday morning, I was up early to look at my presentation one [...]

I’ve been asked to present alongside some Silverlight experts at the Cleveland Silverlight Firestarter on November 1st. This is a free one day event to educate developers on Silverlight. Speakers include John Stockton, Matt Casto, and Jeff Blankenburg. Special thanks goes out to Sam Nasr, leader of the GCPCUG .NET SIG, for getting this planned! [...]

What are you doing on October 18th? Hopefully, I’ll see you at Ann Arbor Day of .NET! The sessions have been up on their site, and now the agenda has been posted. So come start the day with an intro to the new data types in SQL 2008. It looks like a great line-up for [...]

I’m going to apologize ahead of time for the lack of code and technical blog posts. I’ve been working on presentations for a couple upcoming events, and I’m looking forward to a lot of others. So, what’re the tech events that are coming up? ArcReady/MSDN Unleashed Every now and then, there are Microsoft events that [...]