Daily Archives: September 21, 2005

Vista and projectors? NOT!

Just Rambling

Sam’s post reminded me that I meant to mention my big problem when I tried to show Vista and Glass to Vermont.NET on Monday night. It wouldn’t work with the projector. In fact, when I plugged the projector into my laptop, the resolution changed on the laptop and did not revert when I yanked the plug out. Luckily it was a smallish group and I finally gave up and said “gather round” and showed them some of the pretty features.

All of the rest I did on my XP box with a Virtual PC since I had way too many versions of VS2005 required to show Atlas demos and LINQ demos.

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Inside the Conference Bubble

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At the end of PDC, I realized that I was in a bubble all week. I had stopped fretting over the Katrina disaster which is hardly behind us. Not once did I phone my parents to say hi. I didn’t even send so much as a Hollywood postcard to my friend who was in the hospital. The only non-conference related contact I had with anyone was a few phone calls each day to my husband who had had a very scary and bloody hiking accident the day before I left for Los Angeles. I had no idea there was a hurricane in the Carolinas and completely forgotten about the rising cost of gas. This is the conference bubble. The world outside the conference and its focus just doesn’t exist. I was only a few miles from the ocean and did not visit it. Nor did I see the ocean when I was at TechEd in San Diego.

Does anyone else feel this way? It makes me feel guilty to forget the world for a while.

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XLINQ and XQuery

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I use XML plenty, but I am no XML guru. I can hack out XSLT and have used XQuery a handful of times. I definitely wondered how XLINQ would impact XQuery but do not have the background to make any comparison. Therefore, I was happy to see this post by Kent Tegels who does some pros & cons on XLINQ vs. XQuery. The big con for XLINQ is that it is proprietary. The big pro for XLINQ is that it is much more powerful. Says Kent: XLINQ wins by a technical knock-out before even getting into the ring. It really wasn’t going to be a fair fight though, was it? The underlying architecture of LINQ really fortify it the point where XQuery isn’t even in the same class. It’d be like a young Mohammed Ali boxing Superman.

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Vermont Software Developer Alliance Meeting Today!

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Don’t forget the VTSDA meeting today. It’s a lunch time meeting from 12-2pm at the Ethan Allen Club in downtown Burlington.

Today’s speaker is Jeffrey McMahan, a laywer from Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., speaking on Preparing to Grow or Sell: How to Prepare for Investors or Acquirers.

This meeting will focus on the legal and business matters that companies should make sure they have reviewed and put in order before they invite the scrutiny of lenders, investors or acquirers. Specific topics will include governance and financial control practices, intellectual property ownership and protection, employment matters, contract review and corporate record-keeping.

Jeffrey McMahan is a corporate and intellectual property lawyer, advising businesses on issues related to formation, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, technology licensing, trademarks and copyrights.  Mr. McMahan’s clients range from entrepreneurial start-ups to publicly-held companies.  He has particular experience working with software vendors and purchasers in system implementation, license and support agreements. 

Mr. McMahan’s practice also focuses on securities and trademark matters.  He has assisted both privately-held and publicly traded companies with the private placement of stock.  Mr. McMahan advises clients on the selection of trademarks and assists with the registration of their trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Meeting/Lunch is $15 for VTSDA members and $20 for non-members.

 

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Upcoming Burlington, VT Events of possible interest

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ThinkVermont.com is the website of the Vermont Department of Economic Development. They always have a calendar of interesting events (lectures, workshops, etc) in the area.

Here are a few upcoming ones I wanted to point out

September 295 Big Questions about the Future
Details: This Aiken Lecture features Atul Dighe, a consulting futurist and co-author of the bestselling book Exploring the Future. He is often quoted for his views on the future in publications such as USA Today, MONEY Magazine, NY Times, ESPN Magazine, and Computerworld.
Location: Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington
Web Site: http://learn.uvm.edu/aiken
September 30Dr. Stephen Wolfram
Details: Dr. Stephen Wolfram, world-renowned scientist and author who wrote Mathematica and A New Kind of Science, will speak.
Location: Carpenter Auditorium/E131 Given Building, University of Vermont Campus
Web Site: http://www.emba.uvm.edu/distinguished_lecture_series.php

 

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