Sometimes I feel like I learn .NET one little method at a time. Today I had to do something I’d never done before and the solution was not obvious at first. [Read more ….]
[A DevLife post]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Vermont Fall Foliage
The leaves are wierd this year, so if you plan to come to Vermont to see them, definitely check out the official website to get you in the right place at the right time.
http://www.vermontvacation.com/seasons/fall.asp?bfp090601
The 15 Million Dollar Flight to Seattle
I was looking on the United Airlines website at the prices of possibly flying to Seattle in December and had to laugh when this option popped up in the list.
For those of you who are comma challenged, this translates to 14,763,950 dollars. Oh, and this is in Economy. I wonder what the Business Class version of this flight costs? 🙂
Vermont IT Jobs: Two .NET Web Developers anda Technical Writer
PKC Corporation (which is a very cool company with a product developed by a man who is constantly rumored to be a Nobel prize-winner, which would be deserved, but he’s not really) in Burlington is looking for a Sr. Web Developer, a Sr. Software Developer and a Technical Writer. They are a .NET shop and have been so for many years.
Find the details here (note the aspx extension on the page ;-)).
Vermont IT Jobs: .NET (and more) developer in Burlington
Company
Founded in 1998, Sageworks, Inc., a Research Triangle Park-based firm, is one of the fastest-growing software and information companies in the
Environment
Sageworks is comprised of focused and results-oriented people who get things done. The people at Sageworks are very friendly and down-to-earth, but we are also committed to achieving our long-term objective – which is to fundamentally change the way people and companies gather and use financial data. As such, we work hard but we operate in a flat organizational structure where people are given great latitude and responsibility.
Job Qualifications
We are hiring talented software engineers to help us develop new products in the financial and banking markets. We are seeking highly motivated and intelligent software developers to help us leverage and build upon our core expert system. Experience in Microsoft technologies is required, .NET experience is a must. We seek developers who “code to live and live to code”; they must be passionate about software development. Finance and accounting experience is a plus.
Job Description
The position will require software development work:
1. The individual may perform testing/QA work initially as part of their job training.
2. The individual will perform the mundane (fix bugs) as well as the exceptional (build World Class applications).
Technical Qualifications
.Net Framework, 1.0 & 2.0, OO methodology
C#, ASPX, JavaScript, XSLT, SQL Server 2005
The positions are located in
Contact: Tim.Keogh@ProfitCents.com
The oxymoron of funding for small software companies
The Vermont Software Developer Alliance had a fantastic meeting yesterday with 3 bank presidents and a partner from a Venture Capital fund as panelists in a discussion of “Positioning your company to get financing and capital investment”. The room was packed with software business owners. While it was still somewhat fresh, I wrote down some of what I learned over here….
[A DevLife post]
Norton Anti-Virus 2006 and Windows XP built in VPN client
VPN is affected by the worm protection setting of NAV 2006. There is no obvious way to allow VPN unless you can figure out what app drives it. I googled and read other forum posts for quite some time tonight – most of them complaining, no real solutions.
So turning off the worm protection in NAV is the only way I have been able to be able to continue using VPN since I updated NAV.
As it took a while to find any other info about this, I thought I would blog it to save someone else some time.
moose + car + highway: my nightmare
When I first moved to Vermont in Sept 1999, there were 3 or 4 highway moose accidents reported within a few weeks. I have fretted about them ever since when I am driving at night. I don’t recall any bad accidents locally until seeing a news report today in the local paper. Some poor man was killed in a car accident on the highway near midnight last night.
Million Dollar Mark for Global Garage Sale in Vermont
My friends at Global Garage Sale outside of Burlington had an exciting day earlier this week when they sailed over the milestone of having sold over $1 million worth of other people’s stuff on eBay. They are one of the hottest drop-off stores in the country and are getting ready to start franchising because they have a business model that is not only successful, but very socially responsible as well and that is a great combination. The local news station did a big item on them. I was proud like I was their momma! 🙂
some fall colors in vermont
I was driving home earlier this week on Route 17, facing the green mountains in the late afternoon. There is a section of the road where you see a sweeping view of the mountains that is like a big bowl. In the afternoon, the sun is hitting this wall of mountains. The afternoon glow combined with the colors of the changing leaves made the range radiate from foot to peak, north to south – completely red.
I pulled into the parking lot of a gas station to take a picture although a good chunk of the view is chopped off from that vantage point. So imagine seeing about the same as this mirrored on the left. Additionally, by the time I stepped out of my car and turned my camera on, the cloud cover had impacted the astonishing effect I had been looking at as I drove up the road. Still, this is pretty, even if it doesn’t begin to capture what I was hoping to share. Most of this is Mount Abe, where we have gone hiking a few times recently.
