[More info at Vermont Software Developer Alliance website]

Topic: How to make your licensing agreements work for you – and not against you
Software licensing expert Peter Kunin of Downs Rachlin Martin PLCC joins us for our December meeting to share his insights on drafting agreements that give you the protection you need – from both a business and legal perspective. Peter brings his expertise in software licensing and trademark protection. All you need to do is bring your questions. It should be a lively session!

Speaker Bio:
Peter is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, Vermont’s largest law firm. Located in Burlington, Peter specializes in software and technology licensing, as well as trade secret protection, copyright law and Internet law. A member of the Meetings Committee of the International Trademark Association, Peter currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Vermont Law School. He is a graduate of Williams College and a summa cum laude of Cornell Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell law Review.

There is talk of forming something along the lines of the CodeBrew that Bill Evjen started in St Louis or maybe a PubClub which Stan Schultes and Russ Fustino are doing in Florida. Stay tuned.

Posted from BLInk!

You’ve got to love this level of detail! Here is an exception raised from SQL Server 2005 into VS2005 (latest CTP) when I was doing some testing to play with transactions in MARS and passing in some tsql to do a table update.

Recently published to the SQL Developer Center on MSDN

Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005

The next meeting (our first speaker event!) of VTSDA is Tuesday 10/26. We have as our speaker Stan Eames, President and CEO of Synergy Software. See details about the speaker and presentation on the VTSDA website. The meeting is from 11:45 – 2:00. Lunch will be catered and is looking very yummy. The meeting fee is $8 for members and $15 for non-members. We will be raffling off the book Professoinal Software Development by Steve McConnell (author of Code Complete) which was donated by the publisher, Addison-Wesley, as well as a Symbol BarCode Reader for Compaq IPAQ Pocket PC’s donated by EQ2.

This meeting is sponsored by ProClarity.

The Mobility Road Show is well under way and Microsoft is now ready to trade your mobile application samples for a Smart Phone, Pocket PC or other mobile device.

Read more about this awesome contest on Thom Robbins weblog.

Burlington Free Press wrote a nice story about the Vermont Software Developer Alliance. Here is it. (of course that link will be gone in a week… aargh)

Vermont’s SQL Server group (VTSQL) has it’s next meeting on October 18th at Competitive COmputing in Colchester, VT.

Here are the details.

For those of you who attended the MSDN Event yesterday in Burlington, VT, I just wanted to make sure you are aware of this change from the CURRENT beta of ASP.NET 2.0 to Beta 2:

(this comes from the weblog of the Group Program Manager of ASP.NET)

Access Data Providers

In Beta 1, ASP.NET application services such as membership and roles include Access data providers, and use them by default. In Beta 2, however, we will replace this functionality with support for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, the new version of SQL Server which combines the file-based simplicity of Access databases with seamless deployment to full editions of SQL Server.  The developer model of using the application services stays 100% the same, but the backend implementation will now be much more robust and performant.