Typical – must leave for the airport in 1/2 hour and have been doing client work all morning. Still have to pack (thank goodness I washed all my clothes already). Hopefully my travelling duds aren’t too wrinkly!
I am so looking forward to another DevConnections conference and then a vacation in Zion National Park and Bryce Canyone with my husband!
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This story on Mena Trott is linked on the home page of cnn.com.
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I found this article by way of VT blogger, Mark Chadwick.
BARRE, Vt. —Vermont is the brightest state in the country, according to a Kansas publisher.
“Vermont shines in many key areas of education,” said Scott Morgan, president of Morgan Quitno Press. “A high percentage of its students excel in reading, writing and math. In addition, schools in Vermont have smaller class sizes and lower pupil-teacher ratios than in most other states.”
The publisher compiled its yearly list of the smartest states measuring 21 factors.
Last year, Vermont ranked third, and second the year before.
Arizona was at the bottom of the list, below Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada and California.
The publisher also says Vermont is the healthiest state, the second safest and the third most livable.
That was nice to hear after seeing Fortune’s (I think that’s where it was, but I can’t find it) list showing Vermont as the #6 most unfriendly state when it comes to taxes – 6th highest ratio of taxes vs. household income.
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MSDN Nuggets has a bunch of short videos (similar to hte great 10 minute groktalks) on how to do a variety of things in .net.
I caught this one by Mike Taulty that is on hosting windows forms controls in asp.net. What I really liked is the way he demonstrated the code access security issues that you have to be aware of. Rather than saying “don’t do this”, he did do it and showed what happens. Nice.
Follow the above link and look for “Hosting a WinForms Control on an ASP.NET web page”.
One thing that really surprised me was seeing Mike’s email on the beginning of the video. I had no idea he worked for Microsoft!
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