Two new contests were announced.
Made in Express $10,000 for the most clever app written in VS2005 Express and/or SQL Server 2005 Express.
Mash it Up with Atlas Smartphones and XBOX 360’s are the giveaways for getting up to your eyeballs with Atlas and doing something cool. The newest Atlas CTP was just released, too! more on atlas.asp.net.
Michele Leroux Bustamante has posted code samples from her sessions at SD West. The posts keep coming and coming. I think she did something like 40 sessions! Not really, but it looks like she did 5 regular sessions and 2 half day sessions. I do not know how on earth she manages that. It must be an IDesign thing, since Michele and Brian Noyes and Juval Lowy also do a zillion talks each at DevConnections.
Speaking of DevConnections – it’s only in 2 more weeks! April 2-5. I’ll be doing three talks this time, Advanced Data Access in ADO.NET 2.0, Building WSE 3.0 Secured Web Services that can talk to WCF and Five Supposedly Scary things in .NET. I have taken liberties with the actual session titles, but that’s the gist of it. There is going to be a lot of amazing content.
At the end of the month, Michele and I get together again, along with Jason Beres, Scott Hanselman and Bill Hatfield to present a full day of talks at Deeper in .NET in Milwaukee. This is a full day user group event put on by the WI.NET Users Group.
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From Larry O’Brien’s blog:
Oh well. The writing had been on the wall, but today it’s official: Software Development magazine, which I founded in 1992, has been absorbed by Dr. Dobb’s Journal and will cease publication. Ironically, SD was born when Dr. Dobb’s absorbed Computer Language after Miller Freeman (now CMP) bought DDJ. Between the two events, that means more than 150,000 subscribers who signed up for Computer Language or Software Development and winded up with DDJ. Just saying. Larry also has some follow up posts: The Imminent Death of Developer’s Magazines Commenting on a blog post by Eric Sink Why DDJ Won’t Change:Commenting on a blog post by Joel Spolsky |
DevSource has started new video interview series called Great Minds in Development. This is not more podcasts featuring our friends in the .NET community chatting away, but interviews with some of the thought leaders in the development world. The first video is online… [read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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My parents had to put down one of their dogs earlier this week. Beautiful Inka. Two days later, the owners of Alex, one of Inka’s brothers, had to put him down, too. Inka and Alex were 10 1/2 which is pretty old for a newfie. They were from a litter of 13 that I will never forget -good ol’ Pippa had all those puppies all at once.
We put a little rememberance of Inka and Alex on the home page of my parent’s kennel website.My mom, dad and I had fun writing this and giggling about these beautiful dogs who have such big personalities. So much easier than bawling some more. www.blueheavennewfoundlands.com
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People always ask me what we do up here in Vermont. Well, here are FOUR jobs related to .NET so we aren’t just boiling syrup and milking the cows all day, y’know! I noticed these local IT jobs in 7Days this week. One is a .NET Developer job that I have posted before. Here’s a link right to 7Days classifieds for IT jobs.
1) I see my favorite local software company, Synergy is hiring again. I worked there when they were just porting to VB6 and frustrated because .NET was released while they were in the middle of it. But now they are looking for .NET developers. Yay!
2) Blue House Group – a local consulting company that does great work and is in hip little Richmond, VT (12 miles from Burlington) has a web designer positions (as well as a few other jobs). They are also knee deep in .NET at Blue House along with the other technologies they use.
3) HazMed has a .NET Developer (C#) postion that is in 7Days but not on their website. They do have a SysAdmin job on their website.
4) ASP Developer wanted (.NET skills a plus) at CPA Site Solutions.
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Someone asked me about ADO.NET indexing which encouraged me to write about some of the amazing results of some performance tests I have done comparing VS2003 and VS2005’s DataTable indexing. [Read more…]
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I am astonished that INETA has had to go so far as to have a prize drawing to encourage user group leaders to report on the health of .NET user groups (thereby also helping INETA to show it’s sponsors what type of reach they are getting which is a VERY reasonable thing for a sponsor to ask).
Once a month, it is a tiny itty bitty task. All they ask is that you identify yourself, your user group, the date of your meeting and the # of attendees. Additionally, they ask what your current membership count is and if you are so inclined, you can even leave comments.
One minute? Two?
So why is it hard to get u.g. leaders to do this? Do you find it invasive? That’s the only thing I can come up with because certainly it’s not much of an imposition. Even if INETA did nothing more than provde the speaker bureau – that’s huge. And this is just about the only thing they ask in return other than eval forms when they send a speaker (and pizza) to your group three times a year. So what if they ask every month – not just months that you have INETA speakers. And even with that, you cannot imagine the time and energy that the INETA volunteers put in to running this organization. And for what? For you – for your user groups. So a little survey each month is not much to ask as far as I’m concerned. I’m very happy to share that info with them.
Really, I am very curious why bribery is necessary? Not that I would turn down a $100 gift card for my user group (though I wish I could use it at the local pizza joint)!
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