Monthly Archives: July 2005

Central NY .NET Developer User Group Kickoff meeting: August 3rd

Community Cheerleading

I’m really excited about this new group that Andy Beaulieu is starting in Syracuse, New York (www.cnydevelopers.net). That’s where I grew up (Cazenovia) and my dad grew up in Syracuse too, so I have a lot of ties there.

Andy has been working hard to build up interest and I’m sure this first meeting on August 3rd will be great. There will be a talk by Andy (who has been programming for over 10 years) and by the MSDN Developer Community Champion for NY State, Rob Jackson.

I’m looking forward to visiting the group sometime this fall and presenting (and visiting my parents!).

If you know any .NET developers in the Syracuse, NY area, point them to this new group!

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Vermont IT Jobs: Adjunct Professors at Champlain College

Jobs

Champlain College (Burlington, Vermont) has several adjunct teaching positions open for fall semester. Two online and two in person.

Online

  • Advanced Java
  • Data Structures and Algorithms

In Person

  • Introduction to Computer Theory (2 night sections available)

Contact:
Gary Savard
IEEE-CSDP, MCSE/MCSD, OCP
Program Director, Software Engineering
Champlain College
163 So Willard St, Burlington, VT 05401
savard@champlain.edu
(802) 865-6467

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new names? blah

Just Rambling

I miss “whidbey” but I still use that fond old nickname for Visual Studio 2005.

I really like “avalon” [Windows Presentation Foundation]

And where will we be without “indigo”? [Windows Communication Foundation]

After those light, airy, winsome names, these new ones are like sitting in a dark cigar smoke filled room with big leather chairs and a lot of fat old men chuckling about the stock market.

Boo hiss.

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Christopher Lydon: Open Source – Radio Show for bloggers, podcasters and other webby folks

Blogging

I first heard about blogging listening to Chris Lydon a bunch of years ago. In fact, here is a link to the very show, from May of 2000! I was definitely fascinated by that show and actually signed up for a blog on blogger.com that day (which I only ever put two posts in as I recall). It was a few years later that Scott Watermasysk asked me if I wanted to blog about INETA on his newish blog site (now weblogs.asp.net) to which I replied “ummm, nah, but thanks for asking”. A few months after that it was I who emailed Scott asking if it was too late to take him up on his offer but that I’d like to blog about other things in addition to INETA. No problem, says he…

So, anyway, Chris Lydon….yes. I heard a promo on VPR today (which I only really listen to in the car – that is when Rich isn’t in the car – which is not frequent these days. I can’t listen to people talking when I’m trying to work, so I don’t hear it at home) for a newish show that Chris Lydon is doing called Open Source and the promo said “blogs, podcasts, etc”! That definitely caught my ear.

Of course, I realize that I’ve just missed the show as it is 8:15! But it looks interesting:

Open Source is a lively, hour-long on-air conversation designed to capture “the sound of the Web,” with the popular Christopher Lydon engaging callers, e-mailers and bloggers from around the world in a range of fascinating topics. It is the first radio program to embrace bloggers, Web enthusiasts and the Internet transformation of media.

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