Kevin Griffin

Try Windows Azure For One Month FREE

Kevin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using Windows Azure for a couple of months now, and I’ve really fallen in love with the platform. If you’re interested in doing any work in the Cloud, it’s worth it to you to check out Azure. And now you don’t even have to sign up for an account to try Azure (read: [...]

Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes

Kevin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Kevin Hazzard talked about a great resources for Windows Phone 7 developers at the August meeting of the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group. Over at MSDev, there are a series of web casts called “Windows Phone 7 in 7”. All these videos are about 7 minutes long, and they’ll slowly introduce you to developing Windows [...]

#DevLink Slides and Source

Kevin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone who attended my DevLink talks. I had a blast presenting to you all and I really hope you got a lot out of the presentations. Here are the slides to the 3 presentations I gave. They are available for download. I also have source available for those of you that wanted to [...]

Speaking at DevLink

Kevin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:00:00 +0000

I will be traveling to Nashville this week to speak at DevLink, August 5-7. This will be my first conference giving more than 2 talks (3 this time around), and it’ll be my second conference where people have actually paid to be there. Be sure to come chat with me at any of my sessions, [...]

Community Megaphone Podcast – Speaker Horror Stories

Kevin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:46:30 +0000

Back in June, I was able to sit in with a panel of fantastic speakers and talk with Dane and Andrew on the Community Megaphone Podcast. In this episode, I shared the story about Joel Cochran and I trying to get to CodeStock, and running out of gas on I-81. It’s definitely worth a listen. [...]

Word of Warning For People Using 3rd Party Reporting Tools in Azure

Kevin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

DISCLAIMER: I’m simply sharing my experiences here. I am not laying blame on any of the tool developers or Azure team. Frankly, I’m not sure who is should be held accountable in these cases. I’ve spend the last day working in Azure, and trying to implement a 3rd party reporting tool into my projects. For [...]

I’m A MVP!

Kevin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Someone over at Microsoft must like me, because they decided to award me with a Microsoft MVP in Client App Dev. This is a huge honor for me, as it proves that people really notice the work you put into the community. I’ve had such a blast working with all the talented men and women [...]

App Problems? No Visual Studio? Try DebugView

Kevin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:00:00 +0000

DebugView is a pretty neat application, and it can be a Godsend if you’re running into application problem. So what is DebugView? Here is the official description: DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is [...]

CodeStock Postmortem

Kevin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Another CodeStock has come and gone, and it seems that we can;t go to an event without having some stories. CodeStock has provided in so many ways. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights Can I Get A Push? This year for CodeStock, I drove up with my friend Joel Cochran. Knoxville is [...]

Materials for jQuery From The Ground Up

Kevin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Sorry for dragging my heals on this this. A lot of you have been asking for the material from my jQuery From The Ground Up talk that I’ve done at several code camps in the area. Demo Code Slide Deck These should be the latest and greatest available. If you have questions, please feel free [...]