Don Kiely has an article in the June MSDN Magazine (I still haven’t gotten my copy yet but it is online now) where he looks at what he thinks are the most interesting security enhancements in SQL Server 2005. It’s called Hackers Beware: Keep Bad Guys at Bay with the Advanced Security Features in SQL Server 2005. This is all good stuff for us developers who have to work with SQL Server all the time but still are not DBAs. This will be good reading for my plane trip I am taking tomorrow.

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Day of .NET #6 in Chicago was today and so was Code Camp Charlotte. Next Saturday there is the Southern California .NET Technical Summit in L.A. and a Code Camp in D.C. Thom Robbins just announced plans for a Code Camp in NYC. There have reacently been ones in Philadelphia and North Carolina and they just seem to keep coming. I have been trying to list as many upcoming events as I can find out about in the INETA Newsletters. Definitely be sure I know if you have one coming up. It doesn’t have to be in the U.S. or Canada even.

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Wow! This is great news. Andrew Duthie reports that there are only 25 seats left for next Saturday’s Mid-Atlantic Code Camp!!

Register quick if you haven’t yet and want to go!!

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I am watching the webcast from the Toronto VB User Group’s presentation of Pocket Build, their entry into the Canadian Inter User Group Competition. The task was to improve the quality of a developer’s life. TVBUG came up with an amazing application to alert developers of build issues remotely. Not only does the app blow me away, but the presentation and the depth that they went to is amazing. It is a thoroughly designed and planned application. I just can’t get over that they put togehter such a professional project.

More details and all of the links to the webcasts are here, on Sasha Krsmanovic’s blog. Sorry I forgot this link earlier!!

I haven’t watched the others yet, but apparently they were all very high quality, though everyone agreed that TVBug’s had to be the winner.

Congrats to everyone.

Malek Kemmou, will no longer be “the guy from Casablanc” among us as he moves to Istanbul tomorrow (as a new Microsoft employee). Yesterday Stephen wrote about some departing shenanigans that I’m sure he strong-armed Malek into 😉 and today Malek gives us a beautiful poem about leaving the city he has grown up in. I look forward to the day that Malek can introduce me to both Casablanca and Istanbul.

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I love this concept! Go DevTeach!!

Montreal
June 18-22

SQL Track (39 sessions)
.NET Track  (62 session)
FoxPro/Win32 Track (27 sessions)

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PC Magazine lists the top computing websites and amont their 17 picks, TabletPC Post is there! Woo hoo! Not only congrats to Lora Heiny, but to brothers Layne and Loren who have a hand in this as well.

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Dave Noderer, who does so so so much for INETA and for the Florida user group community was interviewed in this newspaper about how he makes his business work by working with lots of independent contractors. Here is the article.

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(sorry, Mike, I just couldn’t resist! really, I hope that cold gets better…)

Mike Gunderloy checks out Visual Studio Hacks. In case you don’t know (that is, if you are living under a rock), Mike has written A LOT about Visual Studio, big fat granular books, etc,  and he says “So, you know – I got to about page 6 of this book before I learned something new.”

Gotta love it

I gave away two copies of the book last night at the VTdotNET meeting and people were chomping at the bit to get their hands on it.

So James, when you decide you can retire a wealthy man from the sale of what I think is going to be a wildly successful book, can we still say “we knew you when…”? 😉

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Doug Reilly has started an interview series called database geeks every week.

This week he is featuring Terri Morton who is a frequent contributor on asp.net forums, an asp.net mvp and an aspinsider. Although that sounds pretty much all about ASP, Terri is a pro when it comes to database work in asp.net apps.

Here is the first interview!