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I spent Saturday with friends, co-workers, Twitter peeps, and assorted geeks at the third annual Austin Code Camp. I've been all three years, and I enjoyed this one the most. There was over 200 attendees, which was a great turnout. There was a lot of great sessions. It was also cool that a bunch of people made the drive in from Fort Worth, San ...

Becky at the Customers Rock! blog recently detailed the FreshBooks roadtrip, which is a great example of how a company can stay connected with its customers. I love this: This was not a product roadshow.  This was a listening tour. I also really like how they're using face-to-face conversations, but also expanding their conversations ...

This is brilliant. Just watch: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/03/20/the-8020-business-ruleheck-life/ In a similar vein, a snippet from Hugh at SXSW: We can only execute on 10 percent of our ideas. We might as well give the other 90 percent away.

There was an interesting discussion this week over on the Clarify IT Toolbox list - interesting (to me) not so much because of the technical question, but because how it brings to light user stories, or lack thereof. The original question: How Can I custimize the process of "Accepting" a case. I want to have a msgbox before a case ...

I’m a big fan of Hugh McLeod, and being that I am part of the Microsoft ecosystem, I have been following his Blue Monster Project. In a recent post, Hugh says: That if Microsoft wishes to change the world, then changing themselves is also, most definitely, a big part of the equation. I saw some of that change this weekend. I saw Scott ...

This past weekend was the first ALT.NET conference, held here in Austin, TX. Right from the start, I knew this was going to be special. The list of attendees was amazing. It’s like my blog roll, but live! The format This was not your typical run of the mill conference, where we yearn for interesting hallway conversations to break up ...

Scott Bellware is speaking tonight at the Austin .NET User Group on Domain-Driven Design with the ADO .NET Entity Framework Should be a good talk.

The Austin.NET User Group is sponsoring Austin Code Camp 2007 on May 5th. Last year's camp was excellent, and it's not too late to register for what's sure to be another great code camp. There are multiple sessions being led by Dovetail Software staff:   Bret Pettichord from Dovetail Software Scripting Web Tests with Watir and Ruby - ...

Dovetail Software Blogs: Community and Knowledge Within the Enterprise “As the technologies of the Web come to be deployed on the enterprise network, IT managers and business department heads have a large menu of possible implementations to consider. Social networking and collaboration tools are proliferating within the ...

Dovetail Software Blogs: CRM Integration and Here Comes Microsoft “Stories coming from the company’s annual Convergence conference this week in San Diego recount impressive integration between Microsoft’s CRM application and the Office suite. The Redmond company could become a huge player in the CRM market, bringing flexibility ...