David Chappell, The Man!, coming to a city near you

I've been a fan of David Chappell for a long time, starting with his Understanding AcitveX and OLE book (back in my DCOM programming days), and then later with Understanding .NET . His ability to articulate the how's and why's of doing things in development have been impactful, and inspiring.  In recent years, he has written a variety of papers on our technologies (WCF, WPF, Workflow, .NET 3.5, BPM and BizTalk, etc).

Now, you can meet him too. He will be doing a limited 4 city tour, presenting on "Understanding Software + Services: A Perspective" .  From Jeff's blog, Mr. Chappell will also talk about the tools and guidance Microsoft is providing in this area and how you can leverage that when developing S+S solutions, including "in the cloud" services.

David will be speaking from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the following cities on the following dates:

Southfield, Michigan
May 13th
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Bloomington, Minnesota
May 15th
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Downer's Grove, Illinois
May 20th
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Houston, Texas
May 22nd
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From this list, one can tell that David will not be speaking near my neck of the woods (Memphis). But if he was remotely close, I'd find a way to get there.  So, I encourage my friends in the regions of these cities to make the trip. He's smart and a good speaker.

Also, check out Jeff Brand's blog which reminded to post something about this.