Daily Archives: April 4, 2005

Mario Cardinal – Solutions Architect MVP

Community Cheerleading

Happy news from my friend Mario Cardinal in Montreal who has been awarded MVP for Solutions Architect. Mario came to VTdotNET in January to teach us about Enterprise Services Applications Blocks before they were even released. He had done so much research just based on the documentation with no code available. Mario has a French .NET talk show called BlaBladotNET. I have never listened to it of course because my french is pretty limited! Congrats Mario!

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MVP – What about me?

Just Rambling

I saw Paschal’s MVP post and the follow up conversation about it. I have been mulling this over and decided to comment on it as well. When I read the post I thought that Paschal was asking “what about Ireland?” and throwing caution to the wind regarding how he is perceived. To me, that matches up pretty well with his claim that he doesn’t want to be an MVP. His message, as I read it, was “not even one MVP in all of Ireland? Hello?”. And he said it even if it meant that, by making a stink about it, he looked, well, like a bit of a stinker.

I understand that message. I have been known to ping MVP leads about some people from Vermont that I wanted to make sure they were aware of. I was delighted to meet up with another Vermont geek at the MVP summit last year! And this is just a little state, not an entire country.

One of the issues for the MVP leads is that people need to get on their radar in order to be considered. Sometimes it takes someone else to make that happen. And even then, there are generally more qualified people than the numbers they are allowed to award to.

So, Paschal and I have different methods. I happen to know some of the leads so I can leverage those connections. He has his blog which definitely gets read, so that’s the route he takes. How about use the blog a little further – like have a category: “People I think should be on the MVP radar” – or something like that.

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Great Topic, Great Speaker and Great Swag at Next VTdotNET Meeting

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Our next Vermont.NET meeting is Monday, April 11th. Robert Hurlbut is driving up from New Hampshire to teach us about Test Driven Development, Unit Testing and NUnit. I am really looking forward to this. I also managed to get a few copies of Dr. Neil Roodyn’s Extreme.NET to give away at the meeting. Also, even though it’s not exactly on topic, I can’t help but raffle off copies of James Avery’s new Visual Studio Hacks that arrived a few days back. Darn right I’m keeping a copy for myself. A quick look through left me really impressed. I will write about that later. We also have some swag from the last INETA mailing – Dundas Gauge for .NET.

So this will be a great meeting, very informative and excellent resources and tools to share. Thanks to O’Reilly, Addison Wesley, INETA, Dundas and Robert!!



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Burlington Vermont Geek Dinner on Thursday with Richard Hale Shaw

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stay tuned for details but mark your calendars.

Time: 6:30
Place: NECI Commons, 25 Church St. Burlington

Note that if there are too many of us to get a table quickly, we will just go elsewhere on Church Street or environs. So try not to be late!!

Richard Hale Shaw will be in town so we thought it would be fun to do a geek dinner on Thursday night.

I’ll think up a place (probably downtown or maybe So. Burlington) where we don’t need reservations, can walk in with a group of undetermined size and has something on the menu besides pizza.

(Please leave a comment if you plan to attend, thanks)

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Crystal Report vs. Reporting Services analysis

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SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports:
A Competitive Analysis

Thanks for pointing this out, Mike. I have still not touched Reporting Services and continue my “can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em” relationship with Crystal, so I definitely need to read it.. It is written by Brian Bischof who has a self-published book on Crystal Reports.NET that I have talked about before.

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Getting bashed for blogging your opinions

Blogging

I hate seeing this happen! [With her permission,] I am copying and pasting Heather’s post here because she might remove this explanation as well. She already chose to remove the original post. I can understand, I had to do this once, too, although I didn’t get hate mail, just a lot of people who wanted me to debate when I just didn’t feel like it.

04 Apr 05 – 11:51

i’ve gotten so much hate mail from writing about a certain film with an assisted suicide, a crappy script and poor props management that i simply took it down.

never again will i express opinions that have even the remotest possibility of offending anyone with a taste for bad films. it’s simply not worth it!

i tried writing back directly to those who’ve left comments but they didn’t have the decency to spew their venom from real email addys.

this post will only remain up temporarily, just so you can get this message- in particular the very most recent and evil one which threatened me with God, etc in it. who’s site is this anyway?

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