Now why didn’t I think of this? (The question itself is just a joke of course).
[Yes I have found it necessary to create an entirely new category on my blog.]
Daily Archives: January 13, 2004
Massachusetts backs off on Open Source policy
A few months ago there was a proposal in the works for the state of Massachusetts that looked like someone was trying to force Mass to use “Open Standards and Open Source” software only and not get locked into licensing etc. (my interpretation of lengthy legal document…) This is pretty scary for a LOT of people, developers, Microsoft, etc. Just out of curiosity, I checked over on that site again today and coincidentally, they posted their official policy yesterday. They have split “Open Standards and Open Source” into separate policies and renamed Open Source to Acquisition, where they now strongly encourage the consideratoin of open source and freeware, but they do still have proprietary software on the top of their list. Phew!
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Flickers of light from BurningBird
Looks like Shelley’s flirting with her blog again. Not sure what to make of it – since I believe she is on a much needed hiaitus. She says “not starting up – just needed to share some important info…”. Okay. Just nice to know she’s around.
Boston.NET’s Longhorn Study Group
Just got this meeting announcement from Boston.NET and couldn’t help notice the special part (bolding etc are mine)
The January meeting of the Boston .NET User Group will be held tomorrow at the usual time, 5-8:30 p.m. We will hold the first meeting of our Longhorn Study Group from 5-6:30 and then are please to have Rocky Lhotka, noted author and speaker, as our featured speaker. Please register at http://www.bostondotnet.org and view the details on these events.
Wow. Already!!?!
First Full Working Ink Blogging Application
bummer – this is what I get for working instead of playing on BLInk! Well, being first wasn’t my intention. I was just experimenting, really.
Seem’s like Loren’s got a winner. Here’s what Peter (aka Tabula PC) has to say about it.
TabulaPC reviews the “new” TabletPCDeveloper website
Coffee
Too me the most indicative sign of my pace of late is that I now find myself drinking two cups of coffee in a row in the morning. I have ALWAYS had only one cup first thing and then MAYBE another one a few hours later. I have weaned myself from coffee twice in the past. It’s a bad thing for me because I have a very mild form of anemia (low blood pressure anemia) that is really just a condition, not a disease. But the coffee does not help. I have not been able to function well with more than two cups in me per day (getting the shakes and nervous) and I am right now looking at my empty cup at 11:10 a.m. and thinking about a 3rd. Calgon, take me away.
Just Launched: TheServerSide.NET
Always the last to know! I got an email from a good friend of mine who is a Java programmer at BEA telling me about www.theserverside.net (“Your Enterprise .NET Community“) which was just launched this morning.
The Middleware Company today announced the launch of TheSeverSide.NET, Your Enterprise .NET Community. In his opening letter, TSS.NET Editor-In-Chief Ted Neward talks about his vision for TheServerSide.NET, his commitments to the community for the future, and why TheServerSide.NET is important to the .NET community as a whole.
Wow! Take a look at that. Ted Neward is the top dog editor. They’ve got video interviews with Don Box and Scott Guthrie. Looks like it is chock full of content – original content.
My java/BEA pal tells me that theserverside.com is “the” place for J2EE. So they’ve got lots of great experience already that will be leveraged for the .net version.
It looks awesome. Oh god, MORE GREAT STUFF TO READ! EEEEEEEEEEEEEK! (When’s a girl to find time to sleep?)
INETA January Newsletter on it’s way
The next INETA newsletter is on it’s way out. I got some awesome help this month (and going forward) from Sheri Nawrocki who is on the INETA Marketing committee and also a graphic designer (consultant hint hint) as well as a .NET Developer. Sheri did a major redesign of the newsletter and it is just beautiful. She also is doing the physical production of the newsletter which is a huge help to me. We finally have a home for old newsletters (you know, old newsletters never die, they just fade away) at www.ineta.org/newsletters. We will also start putting the international newsletters there as well. Since INETA is know defined as regions (North America aka NORAM, Latin America aka LATAM, Europe, MiddleEast/Africa aka MEA and AsiaPacific aka APAC) each region will be doing their own newsletter, though the one I do (NorAm) does have a bit of a world view still. Though some of the news is user group related and INETA related, it may still be of interest to others and you can subscribe to Sheri’s thing of beauty on the home page of the INETA website. We’ll get the January newsletter onto the newsletter page shortly if you were not susbscribed before it went out.
Scoble asks (on behalf of others): How do I get into the Whidbey beta?
Robert is asking this question of Mark Cliggett, the new community guy for VS.NET. This will only cover a slice of those asking, but if you live in the u.s. (or are visiting) and have access to one of the 30 major cities on the DevDays tours, GO GO GO!