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Code Camp 5 Schedule – WOW!

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I just took a look to see how the schedule is filling out for Code Camp 5 in Waltham, MA next weekend and was really impressed!

The stats

  • 47 sessions
  • 5 tracks
  • 19 speakers
  • 3 out of towners (I think that’s right)
  • 1 speaker who seems to be planning to do 6 sessions – maybe Thom is just supposed to select from them… 🙂


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Code Camp 5 Waltham Mass – keep on submitting those abstracts

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Code Camp 5 is only in a few more weeks. The abstract list is looking a little light (although Thom could be just having a hard time deciding from to many?) But it’s not too late to submit your talks and certainly not too late to register.

Here are the details.

I’m still on the fence since I have to drive to Montreal on Monday for DevTeach where I give one talk a day for three days. Waltham is about 4 hours southeast of where I live and Montreal is about 3 hours north. So you can imagine my dilemma. 🙂

And before any of that, I am on my way to Milwaukee tomorrow for Deeper in .NET (speakin on ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Integration) then home for a few days and then off again to speak in at HUNTUG (speaking on Advanced Data Access in ADO.NET 2.0) as an INETA speaker. Hopefully it will rain a few times while I’m gone on the peas and lettuce seeds in my garden.


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Code Access Security and the BeerBuying Permission

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As I was doing the last section of my “5 Supposedly Scary Things in .NET” talk last night at the Vermont.NET user group, I came to the slide with the Permission attributes examples to either Request, Demand or Assert permissions. I had decided to try to explain these (very high level) as they had always completely mystified me. Although I have given this talk before, I had a sudden epiphany for a new analogy for the demanding and asserting permissions – purchasing beer. [Read more …]

[A DevLife post]



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Scary Vermont.NET Meeting tonight and a VS2005 Pro license

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I’ll be doing a talk entitled “Five Supposedly Scary things about .NET” at Vermont.NET this evening.

The talk covers the following daunting topics on a high level

  1. Declarative Attributes
  2. Reflection
  3. Delegate
  4. Threading
  5. Code Access Security

I’ll be raffling off the last of the launch copies of Visual Studio 2005 PRO and SQL SErver 2005 Standard.

Free pizza courtesy of www.dottnetjobs.com.

After I did this talk at DevConnections last week, an attendee told me that he had been trying to solve some problems with an app and hadn’t looked at any of these technologies becuase they seemed over his head. He was very excited because he realized that he could solve these problems using some of the stuff covered in the talk and was looking forward to learning more and leveraging them. That is exactly why I did the talk. I hope to inspire others as well.

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Hosting WinForms Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 VS2005 wierdness

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I have spent most of the day trying to understand some bizarre behavior in VS2005 with ink on the web apps. The issue is not related to the inkable control per se, but the Windows Forms control hosted on a web page.

When I compile the Window Control Library into a dll for the first time, add it into the web project, then embed into the html as an <OBJECT> it works fine. But if I recompile the dll and re-add it tothe project, the control does not display. I get the standard “image not found” graphic that you would get on any web page displaying a jpg where the jpg is not available.

After many hours, I discovered the solution, which I am leaning towards thinking is only related to working on the development machine – if I change the name of the output assembly, then add that new assembly to the web project and modify the object tags accordingly, it works just fine.

This really made me nuts and I think I spent 6 hours trying to figure out “what I was doing wrong”. Of course, I’m not done with this yet… as this is not good behavior! I’ll have to find out if there is a logical reason for this, but it will be one more hindrance to people using ink on the web if they are developingin VS2005.

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“Outsourcing Arguments Pro & Con” Panel at Middlebury May 3rd

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D.K. Smith Forum presents:

“Outsourcing:  Opportunity or Threat?”

Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 4:30-6:00 P.M.

216 McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College

A reception will follow in the Tormondsen Great Hall

Moderator

Pieter J. Schiller ’60, Partner(retired), Advanced Technology Ventures, Waltham, MA

Panelists

Nick Laird ’88, Chief Executive Officer, Global Realty Outsourcing.  GRO is one of the leading providers of business process outsourcing solutions to the real estate and financial services industries.
Michael E. Zeliger, Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Nicholson, Graham, LLP.
  Mr. Zeliger focuses his practice on complex civil litigation, with particular emphasis on patent and other intellectual property litigation.
Scott Hardy, Founder and President, NEOS Overshoes.  New England Overshoes is a Vermont firm designing and selling “performance overshoes” for personal, recreational and professional use.

In The World is Flat, Tom Friedman contends that software, the global fiber-optic network and ubiquitous Internet access is fundamentally altering virtually every aspect of our lives. For one, it is empowering individuals, groups and countries to collaborate and compete globally:

   We are all becoming neighbors.

   People can now go global seamlessly.

   Outsourcing is a direct consequence of a flat world, and is here to stay.

   Distance no longer insulates us from competition or impedes seizing global opportunities.

   We can now run global businesses, collaborate with (outsource to) partners and feel competition from around the globe without ever leaving home.

   Globalization is fundamentally altering how:

        People

            Are educated and prepare themselves for careers;

            Communicate and establish, build and maintain relationships;

            Work and play; and

        Companies

            Conceive, launch and grow entrepreneurial enterprises;

            Develop and secure intellectual property;

            Operate within increasingly transparent, global supply chains; and

            Compete and collaborate for markets and customers.

Questions and Issues

Does outsourcing jobs really mean we are outsourcing America? Or does outsourcing create more jobs than it moves offshore?

Does outsourcing mean that America will not be able to compete in anything, and that eventually there will be no jobs here?

If so, how do we explain the fact that, because outsourcing is making it so much more efficient and competitive, U.S. manufacturing is increasingly healthy, growing, and vibrant?

What are the implications of a “flat world” for intellectual property?

   Can companies secure world-wide protection? What are the critical factors and costs?

   What are the distinctions between “hard” products like shoes and machinery, and “soft” products like business processes, software and services?

   How do we deal with the reality that some countries do not recognize IP?

   How are courts looking at IP in this new environment?

A special thanks to the late Edward Schaefer ’56, Laura Schaefer Buckley ’79 and Edward Schaefer III ’84 for their generosity in establishing the Professor David K. Smith Visiting Economic Lecture Series in honor of David K. Smith’s work as a teacher and mentor at Middlebury College.

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions?

E-mail [email protected]

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