from Clemens Vasters’ blog

I am presently doing some intense research on services, service patterns, message exchange patterns and many other issues related to services (No surprise there). However, I can’t do that without external help and since many people are reading my blog, I can just as well start asking around right here:

I would like to get in touch with companies (preferrably insurances and banks) who afford a corporate history department. The ambitious goal I have is to reconstruct a few banking or insurance or purchasing business processes of ca. 1955-1965.

more on his blog…

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TabletPC Stuff
Doodle Application: www.thedatafarm.com/doodle.aspx
TabletPC Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/tabletpc
Lora Heiny’s sites (the tablet pc “guru” that Brian Noyes talked about in the chat room)
www.whatisnew.com and www.tabletpcpost.com

ADO.NET 2.0
Angel Saenz-Badillos weblog (ADO.NET Team Member) http://weblogs.asp.net/angelsb/
Watch for article by me in MSDN Mag sometime in the spring.

Web Services Enhancements 2.0
Dev Center, including articles and Hands on Labs http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/
www.wsefaq.com
www.dasblonde.net
www.benjaminm.net
www.softwaremaker.net/blog
Watch for article by me on the DevCenter sometime soon

INETA and .NET User Groups
www.ineta.org
(my user group… www.vtdotnet.org)

IMAGINE CUP
www.imaginecup.com

Base Class Libraries in Whidbey
Dev Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/bcl/
BCLTeam Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/bclteam
Watch this page as I will upload the latest version of my BCL Whidbey deck: http://www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx
Watch for article in Code Magazine by me on DebuggerVisualizers!

Upcoming conferences I’ll be speaking at are listed at www.thedatafarm.com/blog (requires actually browsing to my blog)

Thanks Carl & Rory & Geoff. It was a blast!

Since Microsoft says WindowsForms controls only work in IE, I have never tried anything else. I don’t have FireFox on my computer. I did not reply to the recent request from Netscape to beta test their new browser and don’t want an AOL screenname just to do so. Has anyone even tried it? I’d be curious if someone with a tablet and the latest O/S browses to www.thedatafarm.com/doodle.aspx with Firefox or the new beta. Let me know.

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Rob Windsor sent me the transcript from the chat room during the DotNetRocks show last night. I had a great laugh at the reaction from these guys when I started talking about the fact that I worked at Penthouse (hey, and OMNI, okay?) Magazine during the mid-80’s and then Playboy a few years later. Not like working with models or anything. Just doing computer stuff of course. But I did get to travel all around the country because of a little program I wrote for Playboy’s advertisers to do some whiz bang analysis. One of those trips out to L.A.(where I got to go the VERY cool Chiat/Day in Venice, CA who was really breaking the mold with their Mac ads) coincided with a Playmate of the Year party. So I actually got to go to Hef’s mansion for the party. And of course I worked in an office environment where it was totally acceptable for the guys to have posters and calendars of naked girls in their offices and cubicles. I somehow managed to justify it all. I had a great job, got to travel a lot and was getting paid pretty well at about 27 or 28 and lived what seemed like the high life. It was the 80’s in NYC. Right after Warhol had died so things had started changing, the club scene was evolving, Reagan was president. We transitioned from the larger than life Ed Koch who seemed to represent what NY was all about to David Dinkins. Ahhh I begin to wax poetic. Back to work.

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