Daily Archives: April 2, 2005

TechEd BOF – Life on the Bleeding Edge

Community Cheerleading

People always ask me how I find the time to learn about Whidbey and also get my work done. I wonder how people manage to deal with Avalon, Indigo, Longhorn etc. So I thought it would be a really interesting topic for a BOF. HEre’s the BOF proposal that I just submitted. It has to be approved before you can vote.

Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, Avalon, Longhorn, EEEK! How the heck do we learn all this stuff when we can’t even keep on top of all of the current technology? Come to this BOF and we can talk about how we decide how far ahead we should be looking, how we pick and choose what we want to learn and how we find the time and energy to do it.

You, too, can submit a BOF!!

 

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TechEd – INterested in another Women who Code BOF?

Community Cheerleading

I know that every time we have done these we get a new group of women who have not had the opportunity to sit in a room with a bunch of women programmers and talk. Although there will be a Women in IT luncheon again this year (these are awesome). So I have submitted this BOF. Not sure how long it takes for them to go live. Here is the description.

This will be the 3rd Women who Code BOF. It is not a bitch & stitch session, but just an opportunity to gather with some women that you have a lot in common with and talk about some of the things that make being in a mostly male industry work for us. Maybe you find it a challenge. Perhaps you thrive on being special. You may even not think that it’s an issue. Either way, it would be interesting to hear your perspective!

If you would like to see this session happen, go vote!



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Web Methods – Training wheels for WS newbies?

WSE

I think it’s time for me to start focusing on concepts like Contract First and tools like ThinkTecture’s WSCF as well as Kirk Allen Evan’s new WSE2 templates. Web Methods mask messaging from us and using them in VS.NET makes me think I am working with objects. I think I have done more than enough with Web Services to finally get rid of the training wheels and prepare my head for Indigo. And definitely check out John Bristowe’s and Benjamin Mitchell’s thoughts on this.

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So many April Fools jokes

Just Rambling

I guess they got a little tiresome only because there were so many but it was fun how many people put together some really creative April Fool’s jokes. Also it made it hard to post anything that was serious because who would believe it?

The best was Matt Hawley who has been blogging about his move to go work for Microsoft over the past few weeks. Yesterday he blogged – haha that was all an April Fool’s joke, which kind of made any one reading those posts scratch their heads, wondering – what the heck is funny about that? It turned outo that the joke WAS on us, because he really is going to Microsoft. Good one, Matt.

My posting about the VB keywords The and A, was actually a group effort by a bunch of VB people: myself, Kathleen Dollard, Rocky Lhotka, Jackie Goldstein and Billy Hollis. Obviously a spoof. But I thought everyone’s contributions were pretty clever and funny. Hardly anyone memed it though, oh well.

The funny thing about that post was that it was so obviously a joke, however my own comments made people think that I didn’t get it was a joke! As if I found the press release somewhere else and was upset about it. Ha ha. So I did get you! Nah nah nah. And the other funny thing that happened, was that Kathleen and I (who love each other, really, we do!) had a little unplanned cat fight on our blogs. So in case that worried anyone, no need – we were giggling about it. She’s not off her rocker. But she did get some good digs in on me, didn’t she. Hmmmmmm….

Anyway, it was fun to do. I have been planning that since the MVP summit last  year.

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ASP.NET Connections – What’s New in ADO.NET 2.0

ADO.NET 2

I have posted my powerpoint and demos from my ADO.NET 2.0 session. I loved doing this session. I even got to do it twice. I had lots of rave reviews from attendees. A big win-win. I am hopefully going to do it again at the Mid Atlantic Code Camp when I go to D.C. in May and again at my user group. It is a great session. I hope I find more venues to do it at!

You will find the powerpoints and demos on this page under “What’s New in ADO.NET 2.0”. The slant of the talk was to ASP.NET developers, but it’s all back end goo, so it’s for everyone. As Alex Homer points out, yes, I have working SQL Query Notification demos in here!!

This is the same talk I did at Code Camp III in Waltham on March 12th. Thanks to all of those attendees for being my guinea pigs. I was able to improve the talk a lot thanks to your feedback!

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Congrats to new MVPs!

Community Cheerleading

I see a bunch, but am especially happy for Sahil Malik, that are brand new. Also, Bill Vaughn did of course, retain his MVP status. I was in that speaker lounge where he wrote about how much grief he got from some Microsoft people (though I thought it evolved into much more light hearted ribbing over the next few days) and his response was basically that it had the intended effect. It brought a big time awareness to the fact that there are a lot of people and businesses who are not ready for VB6 to be retired.

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