The Region at MicrosoftRegionalDirectors.com

Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Joe Homnick is the principal owner of Homnick Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida. He has been a featured speaker at Microsoft Tech Ed for eight years in America, Europe and Latin America, the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), all Microsoft DevDays events and the SQL PASS Summit. Most recently Joe has been selected by Microsoft as a Metro trainer for SharePoint, Visual Studio, SQL Server, CRM and AX. He has delivered training for Microsoft on their Early Adopters program for these technologies throughout the US, Europe, South America, Australia, Canada and China. Joe holds the designations of CPA, Microsoft Regional Director Ambassador, Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise, Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator and Business Intelligence Developer, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner. He founded the Gold Coast Users Group http://GCUsersGroup.org which serves the South Florida area delivering Microsoft SQL Server, O/S and Developer knowledge to the community for over 15 years. His previous professional experience includes being an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University and a Computer Audit Specialist for KPMG. Check out his blog at http://JoeBlog.Homnick.com and network with him on FaceBook, Twitter and LinkdIn.

TechTalk

Small Company Opportunity with Free WebsiteSpark and Web Installer 2.0

Joe Homnick writes "...launching the Web Installer you are given the opportunity to install the Express Editions of Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 up to date with SP1. Not only are the Express Editions available through the installer, but it also sets up your local IIS with different extensions and includes things like Model Viewer Controller (MVC), PHP drivers and Silverlight Tools projects. Finally..." Read post »

SQL Server

SQL Azure First Impressions

Joe Homnick writes "...finally gotten around to playing with my SQL Azure token and here are the first impressions. The big promise of SQL Azure over its predecessor SQL Data Services was that you would be able to work with a cloud database very much like you would with an on-premise one. Sure enough..." Read post »

Office System

SharePoint 2010 Features Sneak Peek

Joe Homnick writes "...three videos are broken down between a general overview, for the IT Pro and for the Developer feature set...Really cool integration between Visual Studio and SharePoint are shown...Something that is very encouraged is that I heard that SharePoint Online will be almost 100% feature compatible with..." Read post »
North America

Joe Homnick

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09 Mar 2010 SharePoint 2010 Metro Seminar Helsinski, Finland SharePoint 2010 Metro Training
11 Mar 2010 March Users Group Meeting - Boca Raton Shervin Shakbi presents on Silverlight 4.0
24 Mar 2010 Silverlight 4.0 Metro Training Mountain View, Ca Silverlight 4.0 2010 Metro Training

Technical Expertise .NET Development, ASP .NET, SQL Server, Visual Basic .NET, Windows Server 2003
Years of Experience 25
Certifications MCAD, MCDBA, MCP, MCSD, MCSE, MCT
Awards Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise, Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator and Developer, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer +I, Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner and is a Florida Certified Public Accountant.
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Sales and Inventory, Project Management, Biotech applications, Engineering applications, Defense, Education, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Non-Profit

25 Feb 2010Posting to RD List on VM Performance
18 Jan 2010Posting to RD List on Boot to VHD
04 Dec 200915th Annual GUG Holiday Meeting and Party