Eric Boyd's Blog

Cloud this Week at VS Live! Redmond

The VS Live! Conference has begun. Cameron Skinner, General Manager of Visual Studio Ultimate at Microsoft is currently delivering the keynote and the conference is starting strong. Immediately following today’s keynote, I’m presenting Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role. Visual Studio Live! Redmond has a ton of great speakers, tracks and sessions and if you are […]

Windows Phone and HTML5 at Chicago Ideas Week

Today, Chicago Ideas Week kicks off and goes until Sunday, October 16. Chicago Ideas Week is a week of the world’s top speakers in Chicago, with the city’s best thinkers, creating an ecosystem of innovation, exploration and intellectual recreation. The City of Chicago has been anxiously waiting for this week, for some time now. Downtown […]

Talking Cloud – Tomorrow at Tulsa TechFest 2011

Friday, Oct 7th, aka tomorrow, is the sixth year of Tulsa TechFest. Tulsa TechFest is technical conference with many tracks covering lots of topics including architecture, web development, cloud computing, social media and even entrepreneurship. It has grown over the past 5 years, and this year there are 21 tracks and a keynote from Glenn […]

Baby Xander Is Here!

My second son, Xander Layton Boyd, has arrived! He was born on Friday, September 23rd, at 5:34pm and was 6 lbs. 6 oz. and 18.5″ long. He and Mommy are both well, getting rest and will come home sometime Monday. See more Xander photos on Flickr

BUILD Windows Conference in Chicago

Any day now, my second son Xander will arrive. As a result, I’ve been staying close to home, which means I’m not traveling to Anaheim, CA this week to attend the //build/ windows conference. Microsoft PDC has always been my favorite technology conference and if the Windows team continues this with the new //build/ windows […]