Daily Archives: May 15, 2005

Are you an early adopter? Addicted to Betas and CTPs?

Just Rambling

I have been thinking about the Birds of a Feather session that I am leading at TechEd called “Life on the Bleeding Edge” and hoping that there will be people there that are already heavily into technologies like Longhorn, Avalon, Indigo, or have used .NET for so long that they are almost bored silly with it. Tablet PC users, etc

I did not create the session because I have the answer, but becasue I think it’s a really interesting question and am very hopeful that there will be a mix of early adopters and VB6 devotees for an interesting dicussion. Here’s the info

BOF031  Life on the Bleeding Edge
Speaker(s): Julie Lerman
Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather
Day/Time: Wednesday, June 8 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Room: Track Cabana 01A
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.

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Webcast on using MARS (ADO.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005)

ADO.NET 2

I am going to be doing a webcast with DCC Glen Gordon on the topic of MARS – Multiple Active Resultsets – on May 25th. This is one of a pair of ADO.NET 2 talks that Glen and Mark Dunn are doing together, but I’ll be filling in for Mark on this one. MARS is a topic that I have been digging into for almost the past year as part of my explorations of ADO.NET 2.0, so I’m looking forward to the webcast which will be full of how-to’s and watch-out’s!

The first webcast is an ADO.NET 2.0 overview that Mark & Glen will be doing on May 23rd.

Glen has a deep level of experience with SQL Server, so I am really looking forward to his perspective on MARS and am happy that Mark thought of me when he realized he had a difficult scheduling conflict.

You can register here for the MARS webcast.

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Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board

Purely Personal

One of the things that I have been invited to do this year that I am really looking forward to is participate on the Advisory Board for the Software Engineering Department at Burlington based Champlain College. The funny thing about that links is that there is a picture of myself and architecture guru Keith Pleas on the page! That was taken at the Vermont.NET’s June 2003 meeting where we had Keith come in as our INETA Speaker, Thom Robbins spoke also, MSDN was filming us as part of their video on how great INETA is and we helped celebrate INETA’s 100th Speaker Bureau event! There were 50 people at the meeting. Champlain is proud to host our summer meetings.

Champlain is a very advanced with their technology and even just built a new building dedicated to it. They have a degree program in Software Engineering and even a offer a masters degree in I.T.

So as a software professional, someone who has lots of involvement with Microsoft and also someone who spends a lot of time looking at [some] of the future products coming down the pipes, I do have something to offer the college as they plan for the next academic year of preparing students for the real world!

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