Deborah Kurata, Molly Holtzschlag, and Dori Smith.

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I have known Deborah for a bunch of years and yes yes yes, she is definitely an inspiration! She was one of the first women that I recall in the VB field that stood right up and out – writing books, speaking at conferences – when there were just not any women doing it (in VB). I came from the FoxPro world where chicks ruled – we had Tamar Granor, Pat Adams and Ceil Silver all incredibly visible and high level – writing books, editing journals, speaking at devcons and user groups. Great role models for a girl in her 20’s.

This must be the longest post Dave Noderer has ever written in his blog. He obviously got very fired up about the Atlanta Geek dinner last weekend. See why!

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Brian is a .Net user group leader from the land of the #2 cheddar cheese in the world and has been very involved with INETA since the beginning of INETA time.

Congratulations Brian!

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Thanks to DevExpress for coming up with some great swag for the first meeting of Central New York Developers.NET.

Andy Beaulieu will be raffling off two of DevExpress’s extremely popular VS.NET add-ins, CodeRush and the language neutral Refactor!Pro for VS2005. Don’t forget, you can get Refactor! for VB2005 for free.

Did you know that CodeRush works with VS2002, VS2003 and VS2005 Beta2? Those guys are way too slick! 🙂

The Imagine Cup is a worldwide, tiered competition that Microsft hosts for the academic community. Over the course of the nine month competition, teams compete regionally, then by country and then the winners for each country go the the worldwide Finals. There are a number of  [read more…]

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I’m really excited about this new group that Andy Beaulieu is starting in Syracuse, New York (www.cnydevelopers.net). That’s where I grew up (Cazenovia) and my dad grew up in Syracuse too, so I have a lot of ties there.

Andy has been working hard to build up interest and I’m sure this first meeting on August 3rd will be great. There will be a talk by Andy (who has been programming for over 10 years) and by the MSDN Developer Community Champion for NY State, Rob Jackson.

I’m looking forward to visiting the group sometime this fall and presenting (and visiting my parents!).

If you know any .NET developers in the Syracuse, NY area, point them to this new group!

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It looks like Sam is getting to do something that we rarely get to do when we travel on business – playing tourist. He’s gone from one extreme to another.

Big thanks to Scott Forsyth and the webteam at ORCSWeb who set me up with a custom solution because I was in a major time crunch. I needed online Sharepoint hosting and I needed it fast, but I needed to be able to deploy a custom Sharepoint solution, which requires a dedicated server (read: my own box on their network). When I started this process over a week ago with my other host, there was a communication disconnect and I ended up signing up for a standard Sharepoint site – which is not customizable. By the time I finally realized this, it was too late to start the process of setting up and moving to a dedicated server. 

Scott came up with the great idea of setting me up on a Virtual Machine hosting plan and he personally installed Sharepoint WSS on it for me. So I am now able to get in via Remote Desktop and set up my entire custom solution. We started talking about this yesterday and I am already working on it now. Big save and my client is really happy!

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Congrats to Scott Lock and his wife on the birth of their new boy, Christopher. July 15th.

Scott is the user group leader for Capital Area .NET User Group in the D.C. area (Vienna Virginia) and an INETA User Group liaison as well. Scott also has an interesting job working on the donation site for the American Red Cross. Here, you can test it out if you want!

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This is cool news:

from Sam

from Paschal

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