I’m posting photos from our summer trip to Santa Barbara on Flickr. Today we hit the annual Solstice Parade, which is like a combination mobile hippie drum circle, dance-a-thon and doo-dah parade. Very community, weird and non-corporate, just the kind of parade I like.
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In Santa Barbara This Summer
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments · McManus World Tour, Work
We’re putting the finishing touches on our summer plans. It’s looking 99% likely that I will be in Santa Barbara from the end of June until the first week in August.
This will be a working vacation for me (the projects I’m currently committed to will chug along as normal). This isn’t happening for a few [...]
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Speaking at VSLive SF
January 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, McManus World Tour, Web/Tech, Work
I’ll be speaking at VSLive San Francisco the first week of April. This time around I’ll be giving three talks:
Creating Facebook Applications Using .NET
Data-Driven ASP.NET Ajax (an updated version of the talk I gave in New York last year)
Creating iPhone Applications with ASP.NET
If you’re going to be in town for the conference and want to [...]
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Roughing it
August 10th, 2007 · 4 Comments · McManus World Tour
Battery powered blenders rule by jeffreymcmanus.
Last weekend we did a fun family trip — we camped at Manresa State Beach, south of Santa Cruz, then on Saturday we drove down to Monterey to see the aquarium.
We took a lot of junk with us when we camped. It was a pain to [...]
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At MySQL Conference This Week
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · McManus World Tour, MySQL, Web/Tech
I am spending today preparing for my session at the MySQL conference on Thursday. I’ll be speaking on "MySQL and .NET in the Real World" which will cover my experience creating Approver.com and will also include a run-through of the Visual Studio integration with MySQL.
Last year I created a little command-line tool that generates MySQL [...]
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No photos please
April 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · McManus World Tour
No photos please by jeffreymcmanus.
This is the front yard of an outdoor surfboard repair shop in Haleiwa, Hawaii. They are doing an excellent job of making up their own novel interpretations of copyright law there.
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements – Roundup
March 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · McManus World Tour
Here’s a roundup of some of the speaking gigs I’m doing over the next few months:
I’m speaking later this morning at the Evans Data Developer Relations conference.
I’ll be doing the world’s briefest demo of Approver.com at the Under the Radar conference in Sunnyvale on March 23.
In two weeks I’ll be speaking at VSLive San Francisco [...]
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United Frequent Flier Miles: Use ‘Em or Lose ‘Em
February 13th, 2007 · No Comments · McManus World Tour
Just got a notice from United Airlines that they’re changing the terms of their frequent flier program. If you don’t earn or redeem miles in an 18 month period, you lose the miles completely. They posted a FAQ that explains the rule change. The kicker is this one:
Q. Do other airlines have similar policies?
A. Yes. [...]
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Speaking at VSLive in March
January 10th, 2007 · No Comments · McManus World Tour, MySQL, Open Source, Web/Tech
I am extremely excited to be making my hopefully-triumphant return to the VSLive conference in San Francisco in March.
I started speaking at VSLive in 1997 (back when it was called VBITS). I spoke at most of the VSLive conferences in the U.S. in Europe through 2001 when I went to work for eBay. I even [...]
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Traveling next week
November 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · McManus World Tour
I am off to the east coast on Saturday to spend some time with family in NYC as well as hobnobbing at a few technology and business confabs next week:
On Tuesday November 7 I will be at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Summit in New York. I’ll be on a panel covering "Enterprise Mashups" moderated by [...]
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