I’m with Heather! Funny though, I always think of my dad.

Shelley Powers (aka BurningBird) has written 15 computer books (including books on ASP, Javascript, Perl, DHTML, Blogging) so when she talks about tech book publishers, I’m all ears. Here she ponders O’Reilly’s formula for success – through conferences, collaborating with other book publishers and dividing their publications into brands. Of course the last two are also strategies of other publishers – think Addison-Wesley Series or SAMS’ Series. Conferences are very iffy propositions these days, but O’Reilly’s do tend to add to their “aura“.  See what Shelley has to say on the subject.

It’s not really an official .NET user group, but there is a Microsoft Student Ambassador at SUNY Binghamton (New York) who puts on a lot of .NET technical meetings there and has organized an Imagine Cup event  that takes place tomorrow. Since Binghamton is where my parents live and I really need (and WANT) to go visit, I am going to combine a trip and speak to Kenny Weiss’s group. The best part is that I will be doing the Defenses and Countermeasures session that I did at DevDays Hartford and Boston, so that will be great fun. Kenny’s efforts on campus are pretty impressive – he gets anywhere from 25-60 students at his “Tech Talks” and has organized the local Imagine Cup.

So the date is going to be Monday April 19th and I believe it starts at 5pm.

Hmmm maybe I can get a pal to come down from Cornell – if he’s not on one of his world tours! eh? (gratuitous link to be sure he sees this post…)

by way of Marcie, Chris Maunder gets into the April Fool’s mood… it’s a pretty funny read!