Here is the blog of Sriram Krishnan who runs the Student Chapter of Chennai’s .NET User Group. Sriram, no need to apologize for non-technical posts about what’s going on in Chennai right now.

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He and his wife are okay as they were not on the beach in the morning.

http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/12/27/332577.aspx

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Has anyone been in contact with Anand? He lives in Chennai. There are so many .NET folks in Chennai.

update: Anand was fortunately visiting his parents and not in Chennai on Sunday morning. His home, quite near the beach, was spared from water damage.

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Thom Robbins announced the winners of the Will Code for Device contest and then posted individual blog posts describing each of the winning applications and screen shots of them.

If you browse to his list of blog posts for December you can see each of the winning apps.

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I’m happy to see Rachel was inspired to start a blog… just today in fact. Rachel is a long time developer who I believe was using .NET before it ever even RTM’d. She lives in PA and speaks frequently at DotNetValley user group. Subscribed!

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Christy Seals, one of the army wives on ArmyAdvice.com listed some helpful info on baking goodies to send over to troops in Iraq and also pointed to the Nestle site which has modified some of their recipes to withstand the heat and the laws of Iraq.

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Congrats to Ken Levy and everyone involved with VFP!

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I am thrilled and proud of the fact that my friend Maryam has just become a U.S. citizen

HOORAY MARYAM!!

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Brad Wilson pointed to a new article on www.DotNetDevs.com, which prompted me to go over to the site and see what else is there. What I saw thrilled me. A host of articles that are aimed at removing the bridge of fear that many people have of particular topics. “Reflection Demystified”, “Understanding Isolated Storage”, “Using Encryption in .NET” and more. The authors of these articles understand that “you can’t know everything” and just because you don’t understand a particular topic or concept, does not mean you need to be addressed as though you don’t even know how to turn on a computer. Nor do they speak in tongues, taking a topic so deeply that there is no place for you to hook in so you can understand what the heck they are talking about. This site is looking like the chapters of the fantasy book I was dreaming of writing (but probably won’t ever really write). Kudos to Brad Wilson and the other authors on the .NET Developers site.

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My INETA Winter Warmup arrived today. Dave Totzke did some hell of a job getting vendors to contribute. Here is a list of all of the vendors who contributed stuff. But I wanted to say an extra thanks to Programmer’s Paradise. They also made an incredible donation. They packaged and shipped the mailing. Not only was it packed like a pro, but think about the fact that this went to all of the user groups in North America. That’s about 250 groups. That’s 250 boxes to pack and 250 * ?? for shipping each box. At least $5/box right? This is a huge contribution. So thank you SO VERY MUCH to everyone at Programmer’s Paradise!

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