Daily Archives: April 18, 2006

DevConnections Decks and Demos all on line

Connections

Now that all three of my DevConnections powerpoint decks and demos are online, I just wanted to have one post for linking to them all.

If you were an attendee of ASPConnections or Visual Studio Connections, you should have password access to this stuff on the DevConnections site.

Otherwise, they are on the presentations page of my pwn website.

On that page, the talk are listed alphabetically. Look for:

  1. Advanced Data Access Patterns with ADO.NET 2.0
  2. Five (Supposedly) Scary Things About .NET (That don’t really have to be)
  3. Using WSE 3.0 Today to Prepare for WCF Tomorrow

On that last one, note that I have also recorded the demos associated with that talk. Check this post for links to those videos.



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The great WSDL debate

Just Rambling

Some very knowledgable people are debating WSDL first. I think reading these types of threads where you get not only people’s opinions of pros and cons, but the why’s start getting answered too.

It starts with Craig Andera’s post about protecting himself (and the world) from poorly written WSDLs by implementing iXMLSerializable.

This post woke Tim Ewald out of his blog slumber who, as a big contract first proponent,thinks that Craig’s proposal is overkill.

Craig responded.

Aaron Skonnard got in on the conversation.

Christian Weyer did too (in Craig’s comments) since he’s got THE tool for doing contract first web services.

All in all, very educational thread, whichever side of the fence  you are on. Me … I’m just, as always, on the fence.

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Thanks Wisconsin! Cabot Cheese – World’s Best Cheddar Again!

Vermont

As I get ready to head to Wisconsin for Deeper in .NET, I see that Vermont’s Cabot Cheese has once again won a bunch of gold medals at the “olympics of the cheesemaking industry”, the 2006 World Championship Cheese contest. And just to be clear, it was the Wisonsinites who run this contest so thanks Wisconsin!

from the Cabot site:

26th Biennial World Championship Cheese Contest  Selected Results
March 21-23, 2006 in Madison, Wisconsin

Results for Cabot Creamery Cooperative

Product EntryPlaceScoreProduct Class
Cabot Vermont Cheddar (6 months old)
Cabot Vermont Cheddar (6 months old)
Cabot Vermont Cheddar (3 months old)
Cabot Vermont Cheddar (39 months old)
Cabot Vermont Cheddar (60 days old)
Cabot Horseradish Cheddar
Cabot Salted Butter
Cabot Unsalted Butter		1st
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
4th
2nd
4th		99.20
98.70
98.20
98.85
99.25
98.35
99.20
98.65		Sharp Cheddar
Medium Cheddar
Medium Cheddar
Extra Sharp Cheddar
Mild Cheddar
Flavored Past. Proc. Cheese
Salted Butter
Unsalted Butter
Results for other Vermont Cheese Council members (www.vtcheese.com)

Product EntryPlaceScoreProduct Class
Hahn’s Blueberry Dream Spread
Vermont Butter & Cheese Goats Milk Feta		2nd
3rd 		99.60
99.45		Reduced Fat Cheeses
Semi-Soft Goat’s Milk Cheeses

For additional results and information about the World Championship Cheese Contest, visit:
www.wischeesemakersassn.org

Maple trees are budding

Vermont

I took this pic of one of the red maples on our property yesterday morning. Kinda gray but the buds are pretty. the picture wasn’t impressive in a small format, but it looks so nice big that I have it for my screen background now. Spring is coming. Yay!

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RecruitersNOTAnonymous! Gretchen and Zoe – brilliant new company idea

Community Cheerleading

So, there was much ado about somethng when Gretchen announced she was leaving Microsoft. I love that Korby referred to her as a Microsoft Legend and almost wrote a blog post about that. She is something of a folk legend (I don’t mean that as in “imaginary” though) for what happened when she and Zoe started the JobsBlog as opposed to, say the MSDN “Microsoft Legend” program which highlights some of the best selling authors in our industry.

Michael Kaplan pointed to where Gretchen landed and it’s really great. She and Zoe have come back together to create a business which leverages their extreme experience as recruiters to offer assistant to technology job seekers and technology job seekees. JobSyntax. Excellent! Go girls!

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