I have no connection to radio weblogs whatsoever. I know a few people who have had their blogs there. But the whole sturm und drang this week has certainly been interesting. I just couldn’t resist pointing to this remix that Brian Dear did of Dave’s explanatory audioblog (that I have zero plans to listen to).
Monthly Archives: June 2004
10 Reasons why I am getting excited about DevTeach
I am really looking forward to many aspects of the upcoming DevTeach conference in Montreal.
1) It is a great conference with great content
2) It is a small conference which makes it quite intimate. It has a wonderful community feel. People are not divided up by interest and speakers and attendees are always together.
3) Many people that I think of as friends will be there
4) Because of the spouse program, a lot of people are bringing their spouses or families to enjoy beautiful Montreal. Rich is coming with me Saturday through Monday. I will get to meet the families of my friends and I finally get to introduce Rich to so many of my friends that he has heard about for so long (and show HIM off to them!).
5) Montreal is beautiful
6) Montreal is only about a 2 hour drive from my house
7) A bunch of people from Vermont.NET are going
8) I get to share my many discoveries in the Whidbey BCL again and try to help people who don’t grok generics quite yet
9) I get to show off all many of the cool things you can do with the tablet pc sdk.
10) I gotta get out of the house once in a while, y’know?
Yup, I am definitely excited about this confernece. Thanks a million to Jean-Rene Roy for making his dream of a community oriented developer conference a reality.
Nice personalized bio of Eli Robillard in ASPNetPro June issue
After the editorial well in ASPNetPro mag, they have a GotDotNet community section every month. This month’s Who’s Who features Eli Robillard and you can get a good idea of his funny sense of humor from reading this. Seems to be a problem wtih the aspnetpro site right now so no link…sorry.
Michele is a content machine!
In the last month, not only has Michele started a weblog , been part of the team that started the Interop Warriors blog, coordinated the Web Services Interop Day, and presented at TechEd, but she also has put out an notable amount of very high quality content:
Here are some of them that I have seen:
ASP.NET Scalability article on MSDN Online
Sending Text or HTML via Socket Commands in ASPNetPro Magazine (June 2004)
She is definitely one of those people who constantly amazes me.
Interop Warriors
Totally dedicated to web services interop are the Interop Warriors.
This is a new blog site dedicated to sharing info from those who are in the know.
My field of Lupine
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Rather than a big lawn to mow, we have about 1.5 acres in front of our house that is a field with wild flowers. It’s history is that it was a big field with an old house down closer to the road. Ten years ago that house was removed and what is now our house was built further back. The original owners wanted “lawn, lots a lawn”, so they let people from all over town come dig up the wildflowers to transplant |
at their homes and they turned the beautiful field into a lawn. Much to the chagrin of the neighbors, the owner mowed about 4 times a week. He loved his lawn. Then he sold his house to the next owners about 5 years ago. The first thing they did was dig up a swath of about 10 feet perimeter around this area and seed it with wildflower seeds from the Vermont WildFlower Farm . So right now the lupine are at their peak and the Sweet William (dianthus) and early phlox and flax as well are all over. It is phenomenal. I tried to take pictures but it just doesn’t capture what is really there. So I walked around the path with my little digital camera on video and made a few videos. They might make you sea sick as I’m walking around and it’s not very still. And it still isn’t really very good but the best I can do. too bad the previous owners didn’t do one – he is an emmy award winning filmmaker for National Geographic. Or maybe I can get Eric King to come and do it? Heh.
And turn off the sound – it’s just the wind hitting the camera. These got saved as QuickTime videos – I have no control over that.
The first one is (egads) 17MB and lasts about 3 or 4 minutes. The second is the tail end — about 2.2 MB. Also they don’t seem to stream very well. I think it downloads the whole thing first. No way my folks can see them on their 56K dialup!
WTF is going on?
I’m sorry but I actually wrote and did not post a similar paragraph last week after seeing yet another horror story in the news – a woman and her grandmother being murdered and dismembered by her former boyfriend and then a man in NYS lining up his 4 kids with the intention of killing them all. Now today a story of another murder and beheading in Hollywood. I have never seen news like this in all of my life. Well, over the years a few. But recently there have been more than a few. Is it truly a daily event but has been covered up until now?
New things we can learn from Steve Smith when he returns to the conference scene
As many of you may know from experience, Steve is a great presenter and an incredible source of knowledge on ASP.NET.
So now that he is learning things like this:
The training today was on mines, including how to detect them, how they’re employed, and how to react if you find yourself in a minefield. The instruction was good, and next week we are scheduled to hook back up with the same EOBC class to go through some boobytrap classes, which will be the remainder of our training here. Unfortunately, two things I was hoping to get in, demolition training and US weapons (heavy stuff) training probably isn’t going to happen at this point.
I look forward to the analogies he may pepper his presentations with. If you have ever sat in on one of Patrick Hynds talks on security, you will understand! Patrick’s military background shines through when he is talking about internet/network security – because as we all know, it’s a war!
I have to point out a funny trend here. Brian Johnson, who is the content strategist of the MSDN Developer Security Center also has a military background. Hmmm… maybe Steve, too, will be drawn more to security when he gets back!!
New presentation from MS on INETA website
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Another presentation for .NET User Groups to use from Microsoft has been made available from the INETA website! Microsoft is giving INETA user groups a new presentation each month. You can find this month’s presentation here. The name of this month’s presentation is: Microsoft Services Oriented Architecture and includes discussions on the following topics:
Feel free to post your comments about this presentation here (in Bill’s post). Also, what other presentations are you interested in? |
70-330 and 70-340 Security exams are released
SB noticed that the 70-330 and 70-340 have moved into the state of official cert tests now.
Has anyone who took the beta gotten their scores yet? I haven’t.