Monthly Archives: February 2006

Rich Turner is the Product Manager for InfoCard – yes,yup, da, oui, ja ja ja!

Community Cheerleading

Sorry, couldn’t help it but I can’t think of Rich without thinkng of the phrase “No! Nope! Niet! Non! Negative! Nuh-huh! [shake head vigorously]!!!” in response to the question “is .net remoting dead?”

He’s off to be p.m. for InfoCards, whic makes perfect sense. I think outside of Microsoft, Michele is the one person who knows anything about InfoCards so far – but that too, is a natural given her work in interop.

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New INETA Speakers!!!!!

Community Cheerleading

Wow, what a surprise but such a great one. INETA just added 5 new speakers

Scott Cate
Richard Hundhausen
Wally McClure
Sahil Malik
Robert Green (hey Robert, where’s your blog?)

Although out of this bunch I have only ever personally attended sessions by Richard, the other 4 guys are not only some of the top experts in their fields, have done a ton of presenting and written a host of books, but every one of them (including Richard) are really nice guys and will be awesome to have at your user groups.

Congrats guys.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org

To chris, who wants to know how often I hit the “i” key when I blogged over the past 2 years

Just Rambling

Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:45 PM
Subject: why do you auto highlight your pages? (via Julia Lerman Blog)
It took my like 300,000K of my memory, 50% of my CPU and 10 minutes to load one of your pages.

Why do you torture your visitors by doing highlighting at all, and even worse, by doing it on their side?

I didn’t even read the content because I was so bothered by the fact that it was trying to highlight everything, including the letter ‘i’ whereever it occured.
 
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Dear Chris,
 
Is this for real or does everyone with a dasblog get this email?
 
The only way you would possibly get this behavior is if you did a search (using the search tool built into dasblog) on the letter “i”.
 
Here is the url when you use that search tool to search for “julie” in my blog:
 
 
So clicking that link you will first get a definite lag time while everyone of my posts is searhced for the word “julie” and then when it renders (with EVERY post on my entire weblog that has this word in it), it will highlight in yellow the word “julie” on the resulting page.
 
So imagine doing the search in the letter “i”. It will take quite some time to search through all of my posts and then return hundreds and hundreds of posts which will take a long time to render and THEN it will go through that entire rendered page and highlight the “i” s. And if that took ONLY 10 minutes, you must have one fast machine!
 
On the other hand, if you are searching for every time I used the letter “i” in a post over the last 2+ years, you have much bigger things to worry about.
 
Julie

Some notes about DevTeach: Early bird discount, user group discounts, get to know the speakers

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Jean-Rene sent out a great email about DevTeach today. Here are some key elements from it:

Save 200$ by taking advantage of DevTeach early bird.
This year, we are offering an early bird of 200$ CAN for attendees that are registering before February 28th, 2006. Registered attendees have accessed to the DevTeach 2005 Archive sessions material for download.

User group members rebate at DevTeach 2006
The User Groups Rebate program is back in 2006. We are offering 50.00$ off the registration cost to all members of user groups registered with INETA, Pass, Culminis or the Universal Thread User Group Meeting Tracker. To benefit of this rebate, members need to enter a rebate code when processing their registration. This rebate can be combined with the early bird discount which gives a 200.00$ rebate until Fabruary 28th. User group leaders can request this rebate code good for 50$ off the registration by sending an email to jrroy@DevTeach.com.

Get to know our speakers by reading their blog and listening to their talk show interviews.
Most of our speakers write regularly in their blog and have been interviewed by the Dot Net Rock Talk Show or the Visual Studio Show. Get to know our speakers by reading their blog and listening to their latest interview on talk shows. The DevTeach conference include a top selection of speakers having a strong experience in various areas. Most of these speakers are presenting at major conferences around the world on a regular base and in other areas as well such as user groups, corporate training and class training.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org