Daily Archives: December 10, 2004

MS Contest: Small BUsiness Technology Makeover

Just Rambling

Oooh – if I were a Microsoft Certified Partner, I have a client that would be PERFECT for this contest. Perfect perfect perfect. An office of about 6 people all using machines ranging from 7 yrs old to maybe 4 yrs old. Some boxes are still onWin98, maybe win2000. I wrote a VB6 app for them years ago which still uses Access as the backend (and management tool). Their network is peer to peer. I love this company and the people who work there. What I wouldn’t do to be able to give them this gift. boo hoo.

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John Robbins at Montreal User Group

dotNET

from Guy Barrette’s blog (Guy is the user group leader of www.guvsm.net and also a Regional Director in Montreal)

Montreal Visual Studio User Group next meeting

More info about this talk at www.guvsm.net

INETA Speaker: John Robbins
Subject: .NET Performance Tips and Tricks.
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 14th at 6:15PM

We’ve all been doing native code so long we know what’s fast and what’s slow. However, with .NET all our assumptions are gone. In this session, we’ll take a survey of different coding constructs and classes that lead to performance bottlenecks and what you can do about them as well as how to best utilize profiling tools to find them. From the insides of the CLR to ASP.NET, this session will get you writing the fastest .NET code possible.

 John Robbins is a cofounder of Wintellect, where he heads up the consulting and debugging services side of the business. He also travels the world teaching his Debugging .NET Applications and Debugging Windows Applications course so that developers everywhere can learn the techniques he uses to solve the nastiest software problems known to man. As one of the world’s recognized authorities on debugging, John takes an evil delight in finding and fixing impossible bugs in other people’s programs. John is based in New Hampshire USA, where he lives with his wife, Pam, and the world-famous debugging cats, Pearl and Chloe. In addition to being the author of the books Debugging Microsoft .NET and Windows Applications (Microsoft Press 2003) and Debugging Applications (Microsoft Press, 2000), John is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, where he writes the Bugslayer column. He regularly speaks at conferences such as Tech-Ed, VSLive, and DevWeek. Prior to founding Wintellect, John was one of the early engineers at NuMega Technologies (now Compuware NuMega), where he played key roles in designing, developing, and acting as project manager for some of the coolest C/C++, Visual Basic, and Java developers’ tools on the market. The products that he worked on include BoundsChecker (versions 3, 4, and 5), TrueTime (versions 1.0 and 1.1), TrueCoverage (version 1.0), SoftICE (version 3.24) and TrueCoverage for Device Drivers (version 1.0). He was also the only developer at NuMega with a couch in his office. Before he stumbled into software development in his late 20’s, John was a paratrooper and Green Beret in the United States Army. Since he can no longer get adrenaline highs by jumping out of airplanes in the middle of the night onto unlit, postage-stamp-size drop zones carrying full combat loads, he rides motorcycles at high rates of speed – much to his wife’s chagrin.

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Rachel Appel speaking again at DotNetValley

Community Cheerleading

I met Rachel when I presented at this Pennsylvania user group run by Jason Gaylord a while ago. She’s really smart. She does a lot of talks at DotNetValley. You other PA groups should see if you can lure her to present for you, too!! Here’s  Jason’s post her next talk at DotNetValley.

Here is her bio:

Currently, Rachel Appel is an independent consultant providing development and training services. Rachel has been developing and architecting applications for various organizations, mostly using Microsoft technologies. She has also is involved in the training community by working with Microsoft and their training partners to create and deliver quality courseware for developers. Rachel also holds the MCAD MCSD and MCT certifications from Microsoft and other certifications from Macromedia.

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SQL PASS 2005 Call for Presentations

Community Cheerleading

Roman Rehak, track chair for SQL PASS (and a local Burlington guy!!) has just announced the call for presentations for 2005. From his blog:

PASS just announced call for presentations for the 2005 PASS Community Summit in Grapevine, Texas. As always, this will be the largest SQL Server event in the world. It is organized by a large group of volunteers passionate about SQL Server. I will be again working on the program commitee as one of the track leaders for the Database and Application Development track. Every  year we encourage community user experts to step forward and consider doing a presentation.  If you’d like to speak, you can submit your proposals here. Please provide a detailed and accurate abstract, the experience level and the appropriate track. The competition is tough, we receive a lot of great proposals. You will improve your chances if you submit more than one session proposal.

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