Daily Archives: April 16, 2004

Chris Pels Blogging

Community Cheerleading

I canNOT believe that Chris didn’t tell me he started a blog! Sheesh sheesh and sheesh!  I figured it out because of a few referrals in my inbox. Chris, Chris, Chris! (rolling eyes)

Chris runs the incredibly active Boston.NET group that even has a Longhorn Study Group already! He has become a good friend as well as my right hand in running the very busy INETA User Group Relations committee. And best of all, Chris is a fellow Mad River Glen skiier – he grew up spending many a weekend in his family’s shared ski house at the bottom of othe mountain.

Chris went out to Seattle a few days early and has some wonderful photos of the Seattle area. Looking at his pics of Mt. Rainier makes me regret not taking the extra time to do the same. He also got some great shots of Eric Ewing’s wonderful and interesting home where we attended a party (and I was an overnight guest – thanks again Eric!). He has some pics of the cruise that Keith Pleas took a bunch of INETA folks on  his very groovy trawler. There’s more. I recommend that you read the text along with the pictures. Chris is a wonderful tour guide. Check it out.

Utopian Entrepreneur – on creating software for girls

Just Rambling

Elizabeth Grigg chimes in on recent discussions on Lora Heiny’s blog and here with a mention of what sounds like a fascinating book “Utopian Entrepreneur“.

Here is the description from Publisher’s Weekly:

Although Brenda Laurel’s start-up venture, Purple Moon (a company dedicated solely to creating software for girls) failed, she walked away from the experience with a cornucopia of knowledge about technology and economics. She shares those lessons in Utopian Entrepreneur, a guide to those seeking socially positive work in the business world. A stream-of-consciousness style and unique layout come together to present important messages, like “good research is never done,” “be a realist” and “pay attention to what you learn.”  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Know any .NET Developers in Binghamton, NY?

Just Rambling

I’m doing my “ASP.NET Defenses and Countermeasures” session from DevDays at SUNY Binghamton on Monday night, thanks to coordination by Student Ambassador, Kenneth Weiss. The talk is in Science Library room 212 from 5-7 pm. Here is a page with directions to the university and a campus map. I discovered that there is some c-tech training in Advanced VB.NET and Advanced C# that week. I called the company and hopefully someone will get back to me so that I can suggest they tell their clients about my presentation.

MSDN even has events in Binghamton so there MUST BE .NET developers there. How on earth do I find them? If anyone knows, let me know. Thanks.