Daily Archives: January 12, 2004

Burlington’s Kathy Vavrick-OBrien is named a Surivor All-Star

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No surprise here. Kathy was a goddess in every way on Survivor Marquesas. I only watched that season as interest in Kathy as a local hero heated up. Ken Jaffe, the guy who designed (and donated) our Vermont .NET logo did her really cool website. Ken’s wife, another Kathy, gave us weekly reports during Pilates class since she and Ken were going to Kathy O’s weekly Survivor parties to watch the episodes as they aired and getting the inside scoop. I just got sucked in, what can I say. I can’t believe she’s going to do this all over again. Egads!

Scott Hanselman at NYCdotNETDev this Thursday night

dotNET

I love the description of this talk!

Zen and the Art of Web Services (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love WSDL)

 

Will Web Services save the world? More importantly, will they save you time? Are Web Services just a bunch of hooey? We’ll separate the good from the bad and dig into the WHY of Web Services and the HOW of the . NET Framework. We’ll go low level and sniff packets on the wire and we’ll go high level and design business documents with XML schema. We’ll auto-generate Business Domain Objects and Messages. We’ll discuss the meaning of the WS*.* specifications, interoperability and get our heads around the “Zen” of Web Services and see where . NET succeeds and where it falls down. This talk will be as technical as you want it to be, but it will also be valuable for the Business Person or Project Manager who really wants to answer the question “Web Services: So What?” Doesn’t sound like the typical Users Group meeting, does it? You’ll just have to come by and find out!

 

Scott is an INETA Speaker and this event is being sponsored by INETA.
more here…

Patrick Hynds tonight at Vermont .NET

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Pat Hynds is our Regional Director (though he’s about 3 or 4 hours away). He is also an INETA speaker, a big-time conference speaker and a security expert. Pat is also one of the nicest guys (ask anyone in the development community). The trivia I love the most, however, about Pat is that he holds the world’s record for Microsoft certifications!

Pat is coming to Vermont to speak to Vermont .NET tonight on his own, rather than through INETA.  The original plan was that he would come up and enjoy a weekend in Vermont and then do the presentation. Unfortunately, his schedule changed and he is driving up and back on the same day. Maybe it’s just me. I hate travelling, so the thought of driving 7+ hours for a 2 hour talk seems god-awful. But Pat, in his absolute kindness, has said that he doesn’t feel abused, rather he feels that he is abusing my hospitality by not taking advantage of it.

Awww shucks. Well, this will be a great talk “Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.Net Applications” which he is revving up for the EdgeEast conference and also is the title of one of the presentations of the next round of MSDN events (that won’t be in Burlington anyway).