I Interviewed Microsoft Regional Director/INETA President/President and CEO of OCG Daniel Egan. Daniel leads us how he went from MVP to Microsoft regional director. How INETA has a user group in second life and other ways he is helping INETA build out a great user community. Daniel also help start the socalcodecamp and uses that to help the community get into technology as well

Since 1998, Daniel Egan has held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. At OCG he serves as president and chief operating officer (CEO). Daniel is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft ASP.NET, and a Microsoft .NET Framework Insider for the Southern California region. In addition to his development work, Daniel teaches a .NET certification course at California State University Fullerton, and also serves on the university's .NET Advisory board. He is the cofounder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group. Daniel is a frequent speaker and conference presenter and has written several articles in addition to authoring Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0 (Packt Publishing 2005).

To find out more about Daniel, visit either of his blogs, Dot Net Doc.

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Friday, 06 June 2008 10:23

TechZulu's Geoffrey Emery Interviews Matt Penner at the firestarter Event. Mat talks about his work with sql spatial and what it takes to get into the GIS(Geographical Information Systems). Mat then takes us down the path of the how GIS has changed the way people think about maps in general and what we can learn from the great technological advancement.

Matt is a database engineer and the GIS Administrator for the Val Verde Unified School District in Perris, CA. He has been an avid developer since the days of Basic on an old XT and loves to be involved with technology on the cutting edge. As an officer in the Inland Empire .NET User's Group he enjoys regular discussions with fellow colleagues and presenters about development strategies and the future of technology. He has been an administrator of Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.5 and a .Net developer since 1.0. As a GIS developer for the last couple of years his "daily work" projects often include managing and manipulating spatial data.

Mat'ts Sessions

Beginning SQL Spatial Features

Introducing spatial data types, what they are, how they work in SQL Server 2008 and what you can start to do with them.

Advanced SQL Spatial Features and Real World Examples

Manipulation of spatial data using the built-in analysis functions as well as using Virtual Earth to create real world examples.

While at the fire starter event I interviewed Joey Snow for TechZulu. A Microsoft Tech Evangelist and all around awesome guy. Check it out below.

Stephen Rose has been technical consultant and has spent 12 years teaching technical tracks for private companies, technical training companies and even colleges like California State University and Columbia College as well as speaking at technical conferences all over the world including TechEd, SDWest, CIO World, and TechExpo.  During this interview we dive deep into everything it means to be A Microsoft MVP, CodeCamp, developing using .net, to reaching into the cloud for a data. A great interview with a truly connected individual.

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I was lucky enough to interview one of my very favorite people Lynn Langit at the firestarter event. Lynn is the best and one of the smartest people I know make sure you check it out.