Monthly Archives: April 2006

Vermont IT Jobs: Green Mountain Power: IT Point person (interpretor for the development team)

Jobs

Green Mountain Power

IT Point Person

Do you have great programming and communication skills?

We’re looking for an energetic professional to join our programming team who has that rare mix of programming and people skills. If you like a fast paced user-driven environment working on a wide-variety of systems, we have a great job for you. You will be the point person for a high-powered software team responsible for triaging requests, writing specs, coding, and project work in order to satisfy a diverse group of users. This position has plenty of opportunities to grow.

The development environment focuses on Microsoft’s tools and Oracle databases on Windows, Tru64 UNIX, and VMS systems. Fluency in a cross section of Visual Studio, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, C#, Microsoft .NET and Object Oriented programming techniques is highly desirable.

 Green Mountain Power offers a very competitive benefits package for our employees including medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your family, a pension program as well as a 401-k plan with a dollar for dollar match of your first 4 % contribution.
 
You can email a resume in Word doc form to brown_p@gmpvt.com and please cc aghareza@gmpvt.com indicating that you found this on the VTdotNET site or on my blog.

Green Mountain Power Corporation
Green Mountain Power, a Vermont company committed
to the development of its employees, to serving customers and to the
Vermont value of preserving the environment

                                                                          AA/EOE

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DevConnections Demos and presentations online

Presentations

I have been doing a bit of organizing and gotten the following two sessions from DevConnections on-line.

  • Advanced Data Access with ADO.NET 2.0
  • Five (Supposedly) Scary Things about .NET

These can be found on the “talks” page of my website.
The talks are listed alphabetically with links to the PPT and ZIP files just after the descriptions.

I still have to package up the code from the third talk: “Preparing WSE3 Web Services for WCF Clients”.



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Planting Peas

Purely Personal

The power went out for a short while today. Though I have no idea what stroke of luck caused this to happen on a 70 degree sunny day, I took great advantage of it and planted peas in the veggie garden bed. Most things can’t be planted until after memorial day. But to sate my need to get gardening, I have seeds for a bunch of things that can get started early.

ok I retitled the post – didn’t want to trick anyone into reading about my garden ….<g>

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SQL Permissions for SQLNotificationRequest in ADO.NET 2.0

ADO.NET 2

Though I have the necessary permissions for using SqlDependency almost memorized (as well as documented in my presentations and my new CoDe Mag article on Query Notification), I tend to forget that when using the lower level SqlNotificationRequest, that you need permissions to send and receive on your custom services and queues.

Here’s how to do that and here is the MSDN Documentation on the same.

In this example, the ASPNET account is the one for IIS5 that I have set up in my SQL Server. Use whichever account is going to be accessing the services and queues.

GRANT RECEIVE ON MyNotifQueue TO ASPNET

GRANT SEND ON SERVICE::[MyNotifService] TO [ASPNET]

 

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Highest Priced Computer Service in Town

Just Rambling

Having spoken a few times over the years at the one of the Poughkeepsie NY ACM groups, I am on their mailing list. I got a good laugh from the recent mailing announcing a talk about Image Storage ex-IBM engineer (that describes most of the members of the chapter) who has an I.T. support business. In his business description, he says:

To keep from being swamped with more and more business, Jerry has adopted a new slogan:  Highest Priced Computer Service in Town.

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A sea of orange at DevConnections

Connections

The TabletPC Hands on Labs were very popular at DevConnections. I think I heard that over 600 people did the labs. Upon completion of the HOLs, the attendees were given a bright orange Mobile PC baseball cap. Throughout the conference, 3 attendees wearing those hats won a new Toshiba M400 Mobile PC (you know, a tablet). Lora Heiny has a lot of great pictures of the thrilled recipients here.

You can imagine that every time attendees were in one big room, for example at breakfast or lunch, it was a sea of orange, as they were all wearing the hats in hopes of winning the M400.

But even after all of the M400’s had been given away, people were still wearing the hats. They were kind of cool. At the closing session, where perhaps 1,000 of the attendees were all seated, I took this short video to show the sea of orange hats.

It is only 12 seconds long. The AVI version from my camera is 25 MB and the choppier WMV file is only 2.9 megs.



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Code Access Security and the BeerBuying Permission

dotNET

As I was doing the last section of my “5 Supposedly Scary Things in .NET” talk last night at the Vermont.NET user group, I came to the slide with the Permission attributes examples to either Request, Demand or Assert permissions. I had decided to try to explain these (very high level) as they had always completely mystified me. Although I have given this talk before, I had a sudden epiphany for a new analogy for the demanding and asserting permissions – purchasing beer. [Read more …]

[A DevLife post]



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