When: March 24th, 6PM Where: Competitive Computing, Colchester Vermont ( www.competitive.com ) From Zero to BI in 10 Minutes or less By Rushabh Mehta Finally a technology that the Information Worker can use to take raw data and turn it into valuable information in a matter of minutes from the comfort...

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Finally recovering from code camp. It was a lot of work even though there were a lot of people involved in organizing and executing it. Extra kudos to Rob Hale. I would have self-combusted if I had had to do this on my own which is what it has looked like every time I have tried to get some interest...

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After years of dreaming about having a Code Camp in Vermont, it is finally happening TOMORROW! www.vtdotnet.org/codecamp We currently have ONE HUNDRED people registered which is surprising for our market.   The fact that we have a number of technologies represented, not just .NET has something to...

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I finally read the abstract for Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s PHP U.G. talk, “Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects” , tonight and realized he is focusing on the MVC design pattern and ORMs. I’m looking at my day /evening which still has two more dog walks (I haven’t been on my bike in over 2 weeks :-(...

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Submit abstracts and/or register for our very first Code Camp. It will be Sept 12th. http://www.vtdotnet.org/codecamp/ Abstracts must be submitted by August 15th. :-)

The "VTCodeCamp" exploration committee has just gotten confirmation on a location for the very first Vermont Code Camp. It will be on Sept 12th at the Business School of Administration at University of Vermont . The UVM Business School has been very supportive and generous in making this happen...

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Chris Bowen , Bob Familiar and Jim O’Neil return for tour #9 of the MSDN Roadshow this week! The full agenda is below, but in summary, these are free, full-day events for developers and architects, covering Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance...

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Tomorrow night, Rob Hale, Sr. Software Engineer at MyWebGrocer.com , will be presenting “Creational Design Patterns: Singleton and Factory” at the June Vermont.NET User Group Meeting. Topic: Creational Design Patterns: Singleton and Factory Did you know there are different categories of design patterns...

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Are you familiar with Community Megaphone? I ignored it when I was first told about it (sorry about that, Rachel!) because I thought "Uggh, yet another place I have to re-enter my user group meeting info." Boy, was that a short-sighted response. I'm now a fan. Read more... [A New DevLife post]...

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.NET devs in Vermont have a LOT going on this week (if I can call the next 9 days "this week" that is). Monday : Tonight is our monthly meeting of VTdotNet with Mark Merchant from Microsoft's Virtual Earth Business Unit presenting on leveraging Virtual Earth's APIs and web services in your web apps and...

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