Richard Hale Shaw is in town so we thought it would be fun to do a geek dinner.
Date: Thursday April 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
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!!
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Hey Vermont.NETters….
Here is fellow user group member, Dave Burke, talking about our Monday speaker, Robert Hurlbut and pointing to his Dot Net Rocks show. Check it out!
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I am likely one of many many people who are struggling with this decision.
PDC and the MVP Summit are 2 weeks apart, both on the west coast. This is really frustrating.
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VTdotNetters –
Last call to register – Mini CodeCamp C# Special Edition with Richard Hale Shaw (@ Watham MA All day Saturday April 30th).
Done in the CodeCamp tradition and will benefit VB/C++ developers who want to get into .NET or C# programmers looking for an all-day refresher course.
(thanks SB for the copy/paste!)
p.s. Come to a geek dinner with Richard in Burlington on Thursday night (April 7). Watch this post for the location
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(yeah, I know it’s been blogged by many people tonight – but this is awesome and I want to push it to my user group website!!)
Microsoft has just launched the VBRun dev center for VB6 developers
Here are the sections highlighted on the start page
Greatest Hits – highlighting some of hte best “black-belt” VB6 content from the MSDN site
VB Fusion – how to interop between VB6 and .NET
Stay the Path – how to leverage your VB6 expertise in VB.NET (I love this just from it’s description!)
Check this stuff out!!
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Microsoft has put SQL Server 2005 on their virtual labs site. YOu can actually go play with it without having to find an extra computer to install it on!
http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=sql2005
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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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