Roy found out that he has been awarded an MVP in a very funny way. Read on… Yes, I think it’s time, don’t you? Congrats, Roy. 🙂

Every once in a while, we get a shot it the arm for new growth spurt for VErmont .NET. With Don Kiely coming next week, it is happening again. Our meeting is listed in the newsletter that Microsoft New England sends out to developers and in the last hour, I have had rsvps from 3 totally new people for this meeting. They all learned about the user group through that newsletter. I think I will do a little survey at the next meeting to try to figure out how better to promote the group locally. I am always surprised that people don’t know about us. This happened also when Ken Getz spoke at the group. I think every access developer in VErmont came out of the woodwork for that meeting. We had 50 people there! And from that, probably 5 people have turned into devoted vtdotnet regulars.

I see Elisa Johnson and the Canadian crew are there and I think I saw Joel Semeniuk’s i.m. said something like T-17 since he’s flying there too as a judge.

This is not even new news. But it’s new to me. And the best is that Jon Box’s company, Quilogy, is the one that wrote the software.

Here is a page with a description of the project and a great video about it.

Most notable is that the Zoo was honored with a 2003 InfoWorld 100 Award, as well as a Microsoft Best Innovation in Education runner-up award at the Public-Sector Partner Executive Summit in May 2004.

Now this is an event I would love to have been at with these two clowns! Jon & Russ are smart, fun and great presenters and I hear there were ribs, to boot!

That’s what I thought too when I first saw the headline earlier this week on CNN that the IRR’s were being called up and it was the first time since Desert Storm. I thought that’s what Steve Smith was and he got called up in April. So I decided I must just be confused, but Steve confirms that they are talking about the exact same class of reservists that he fell into.

I had a nice surprise the other day when I was automatically signed me into i.m. by opening up a vpn connection. I got pinged by Steve who was on leave for a few days, so I got to chat with him for a while. Ever the geek, he told me he had just finished downloading Whidbey Beta1. 🙂

He’s back at Ft. Bliss now and due to go to Kuwait any day now and then Iraq shortly after that. Think good thoughts…

Hooray.

Much better and easier (and faster) access here. I never understood why they were relegated to gotdotnet.

Here’s the main info area for BCL
msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/bcl/default.aspx

And here is the team
msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/bcl/BCLTeam.aspx

And here is their blog
blogs.msdn.com/bclteam

(thanks to BradA for the pointer…)

Mike and his wife are working on getting a baby out into the open! Some false labor must be driving them batty. I know this stuff worked darned good for my neighbor. We ended up delivering the baby on the living room floor. Not only was there no time to get to the hospital, but the ambulance arrived 10 minutes after the baby. 🙂 Good luck. Let us know who you get!

After the editorial well in ASPNetPro mag, they have a GotDotNet community section every month. This month’s Who’s Who features Eli Robillard and you can get a good idea of his funny sense of humor from reading this. Seems to be a problem wtih the aspnetpro site right now so no link…sorry.

In the last month, not only has Michele started a weblog , been part of the team that started the Interop Warriors blog, coordinated the Web Services Interop Day, and presented at TechEd, but she also has put out an notable amount of very high quality content:

Here are some of them that I have seen:

WSE2 Security WebCast

ASP.NET Scalability article on MSDN Online

WSE2 Article in Code Magazine

Sending Text or HTML via Socket Commands in ASPNetPro Magazine (June 2004)

She is definitely one of those people who constantly amazes me.