Daily Archives: December 11, 2005

VTdotNET Holiday Party – even with a live jazz band!

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In the past, the December “meeting” for Vermont.NET has been a pot-luck gathering at either someone’s office or house. This year, with other (less stingy? ;-)) folks than myself in charge, we are having a real party! It’s going to be at Parima Thai in Burlington which has a really cool private party room designed in the feel of Frank Llloyd Wright. And member, Paul Swider, has somehow gotten his friends from Pine Street Jazz to play at the party! It’s like a real office party. Appetizers will be provided and there will be a cash bar. Parima is even offering a discount to any of our members who want to have dinner at their Thai Buffet before or after the party. We will still do our pot-luck in the form of desserts as well as collect food for Vermont Foodbank.

Thanks to Parima and Pine Street Jazz for making this affordable and to local c-tech, Knowledgewave, for their sponsorship!

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Virginia Beach: St. George’s Brewery and Mongolian fare

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In addition to having a great time presenting at WeProgram.NET last week, there were two other things I wanted to share.

When it’s possible, I try to bring back a local beer for Rich. Unfortunately, there was no bringing a 6pack of Castle back from South Africa, but in Virginia Beach, the local brewery is St. George. I had to find them via google, but was able to grab a 6-pack at the local market. Since my laptop is not too heavy, it wasn’t so bad carrying it back home in my backpack.

While there, my brother brought me to one of his favorite lunch spots, the Warriors Grill, which does a buffet in the style of the Mongolian warriors of centuries past. I love the history of this, described in ther menu and got a good laugh out of “at the Warrior’s Grill, we do the gathering and preparing for you. No need to place the meat under your saddle to tenderize it as the Mongol Warriors would sometimes do.”

At the restaurant, you pile prepared vegetables and meats along with a great variety of oils into a bowl and then they are cooked on a hot surface.

Unfortunately, the whole history is not on their website, so here’s a quick scan for you.



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How many programmers does it take to …(TFS scales way up)

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Etienne Tremblay is a real VSTS wonk. (Etienne is French Canadian, so I should be sure to remind him that “wonk” is a good word..). He works at EDS, which is one b-i-g company, and is excited about the fact that Microsoft has just changed it’s Team Foundation Server recommendations from “Teams of up to 500 users” to “Teams of up to 2000” users. That’s a lot of programmers mucking with your code. But one has to understand that I am an independent so it’s basically unfathomable to me….

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