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Attended the first day of the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developer and Solutions Conference 2008. Interesting topics and they had a surface computer. Very cool Photos

PLease Join us in helping a family in need. We will be piggybacking on a run in Gloucester Twp. Please make $50 check payable to Lisa Costa by April 1st. Proceeds will go to college funds for his children as well as the SPAN USA foundation. Please send check to: Metlife c/o Amie Haigh10000 Lincoln Drive WestSuite 7Marlton, NJ 08053 www.lin-mark.com

Went to the Heroes Happen Here launch event for VS 2008 products. Great Job by Dani Diaz Lindsey Rutter Rachel Appel Congratulations to Rachel on getting Microsoft MVP Status. Way to go! More Photos

Went for a bike ride in Smedley Park very cool place. Check it out. More Photos

Awesome night using virtual PC. The Rob and Bill show was excellent. Overview of virtualization concepts using Microsoft productsHands-On Lab Kickoff Video Mark

Got to see William Henry and Ani Williams on 3/21/08. Wild stuff. Check out their works Thanks to Sarah Louise of Soulworks for gathereing this event at this time and place. Mark

Me ( right ) and Lou Ferretti We to a wonderful dinner with my Central High school brothers. Had a great time we eat and drank fabulous food at Luna Rosa > My Iphone camera ran out of film. :) see this link for what I am talking about. But I was saved my my central brother Ray Barczak . See his photos here . Jack Dempsey and Ray Barczak

Been crazy busy with life. Here are a few snap shots. Peace Mark Alt .net meeting Dave Larabee on agile Development Me as a kid with two colored laces 2008 Girls BYC Champs On a roller coster in Houston.

Got to hear a presentation at the Breakfast Club Of America On January 25. http://philly.littlesmiles.org/ Welcome to Little Smiles Whether it’s a need for toys, games, videos, computers, outings, special events, limousine transportation, concert and sporting event tickets, specialty dinners and celebrity meet and greets for children, Little Smiles and their community partners strive to fill that need.Little Smiles is a 501c3 charitable organization that strives to provide the things kids love the most while in local hospitals, hospices and shelters. Qualification of a Little Smiles candidate is simply any child residing in a local hospital, hospice or shelter who depends upon the above items and services to make their time in treatment more tolerable and enjoyable. Please check out the website and give if you can More Photos Mark

Got to see Marco Marsan speak at the second meeting of invitation only InnovationLeadershipcouncil at Moore college of Art. Jan 23 2008 Marco Facillitated an excellent brain training session called Think Naked . His books are great check them out. Mark

Speaking at codecamp 2008 -01 -12 By 2011, one-half of all online adults and 84 percent of online teens in the U.S. will use social networking each month," We will review the basics of two Social Networking sites. Open social (Orkut) and Facebook API's are the way programmers can create custom applications that a socially aware. Microsoft has sponsored a toolkit to add to visual studio that allows easy access to the Facebook api REST programming model. We will review basic development process and create a simple app to show how to access friend data and install an app in the Facebook directory. As an added bonus Andy Schwam will give us a sneak peak at a new start up that promises to kick the doors in on this space. Mark Check out Andy's post on the event http://www.blog.ingenuitynow.net/Code+Camp+20081+Follow+Up.aspx

On December 15th, 2007 Microsoft will be hosting Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter on the Malvern, PA Office. This daylong event is free to anyone who wants to learn about designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight 1.0. Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 is a cross platform browser plug-in that enables for easy development of media rich web sites. More Photos

Thursday, December 13: - PANMA Holiday Party at Deuce Restaurant! 1040 North 2nd Street in Northern Liberties, from 6 to 9pm. Awesome networking event and party The food was great thanks to http://www.myhostsite.com/ Mark

Holiday Cocktail Party! Thanks to those who attended the recent Lucky Strike networking event! It was a fun night of bowling, drinking and socializing! We are proud to report that for the second year in a row, PhIMA members contributed monetary donations in support of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, and PhIMA would like to thank all corporations and individuals for your donations. A special thanks to our generous sponsor, AOL, and supporting sponsors, DRIVEpm and ValueClick Media for helping to make this event a great success for the second year in a row. In celebration of another fabulous year, we’d like to invite you to attend PhIMA’s Holiday Cocktail party at Triumph Brewing Company on Wednesday, December 12th from 7-10 pm. Over the past year, our membership has more than doubled! Come out to meet some new faces and bring your colleagues as well. Free drinks and appetizers will be provided thanks to our sponsor AccuWeather.com and supporting sponsor Philly.com

Malvern, PA Philly Office Geeks is a local user group focused upon all aspects of the Microsoft Office System, for both developers and administrators. This group will provide a community and a forum for people to discuss and learn about the Microsoft Office System – encompassing servers and client applications. Jim Kane, a Solutions Manager at Unisys, will present a case study on the Unisys deployment of SharePoint/MOSS. Unisys originally deployed SharePoint 2003 as one of the earliest and largest deployments in North America, supporting 34,000 users globally. Unisys is just completing migration of their deployment, including over 1 terabyte of data and 14 portals, from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007. Come hear information on what they migrated, how they did it, what worked and what did not. Great meeting Jim did an excellent job Mark

Our monthly meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern, PA on Tuesday, November 20 from 5:30-8:30. We have a special format planned. There will be 10 presenters each doing a 15 minute session covering one of their favorite .NET topics. We will close with a panel discussion with all presenters. There will be no break this night, but food and drink will be available throughout the evening. Refreshments are provided courtesy of Microsoft . Mark Magliocco, Consultant Mentoring 101 You have been asked to lead the effort for a new project. You will need more than excellent technical skills for this assignment to succeed. One of the skills you will need is to be a good mentor. It is more then telling the team to do it right. I will review some of my tips to be more effective Mark More Photos

Stuzo.com on Thursday, November 8, 2007 hosted an excellent networking and training class for face book community. Thanks Guys! The Famous "Dave" of Face book Fame gave an excellent over view of best practices for facebook developers. Awesome success stories as well. Event Link Mark

The first meeting will focused on the C# open source Castle Project library, and it's MVC framework called Monorail. Monorail is an alternative to the Microsoft Web Forms model, ASP.NET and provides some distinct advantages to working with Web Forms. Monorail's growing popularity was one of the key factors in Microsoft's recent decision to develop their own MVC alternative to Web Forms, which we'll also discuss. The Castle Project also provides many other great tools that can be used separately from Monorail in all types of .NET development, whether ASP.NET , Winforms, etcThe meeting went very well and the presention was on target This was a great kick off to this new group. Very cool technology this really brings the Java and .net world in line with MVC. Mark http://www.localjobguide.com/ http://www.markm.com/ More Photos Learn from a leader on the subject David Laribee

November 14th, 2007, Telerx’s Abby Sacks (aka Kronos Girl ) performed her original music at McShea's A group of core fans attends the event. Abby was fantastic. You will be hearing more about this one! Mark More Photos of the event

Friends Our family walked this sat for Pancreatic Cancer research. If you can help thanks. As most of you know my daughter's mother in law died of Pancreatic Cancer earlier this year. It turns out th ere is not a lot of research money spent on this deadly form of cancer. Peace Mark More Photos Here is Gina's Page infomation Some time ago I sent you an e-mail telling you about my involvement with PanCAN , the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. I am participating in an event for them and would like your support as I raise funds for this organization. PanCAN provides public and professional education embracing the urgent need for more research, effective treatments, prevention programs and early detection methods. PanCAN also funds research grants for pancreatic cancer, as well as providing patient services. Please visit my personal page to learn more. Thank you for your support! Follow This Link to visit my personal web page a...