Daily Archives: October 5, 2006

Code Camp 6 in Waltham – Register and/or Submit Abstracts!!

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Code Camp 6 is Oct 21-22 in Waltham.

You can register now.

You can also submit abstracts. Code Camp is a great place to show off anything from stuff you’ve figured out that you want to share or technologies that fascinate you that you were looking for an excuse to dig into. Session range from low-key “chalk talks” in front of small groups, to presentations in one of the larger rooms.

There will be 7 tracks so almost anything goes.

So… even if you have never presented before, this is a great and low-stress venue to share what you’ve learned with other developers.

Code Camp 6: Homestead Suites for overnighters

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We Vermonters and flatlanders who live in Vermont are a bunch of tightwads when it comes to spending our hard earned money, so paying $200 for one night in Waltham for code camp was more than we could bare.

I finally gave in and booked ar oom at the Homestead Suites. What the heck. It’s clean it’s new it’s safe and it is 1/2 the price of the Westin. No gym. Internet is $10 (so what?).

Plus the rooms are Suites, so who needs the Westin lounge anyway.

PARTY IN DAVE’S ROOM!

Venice or the Venetian

Travel

Vegas used to be known for it’s $5 dinner buffets and other bargains that made it a fun and very inexpensive vacation. The few times I’ve been there (for conferences only as it’s not really my dream vacation spot), I’ve been astonished at how pricey everything was – especially the Vegas shows, which I just can’t bring myself to buy $100+ tickets for. Markus Egger had a wake-up call when trying to plan a recent weekend in Vegas and says “who wants to stay at the Venetian when gong to Venice is cheaper?” Hear! Hear!

Survey: What SSL Certificates are you buying for WS-Security with WCF, WSE or other WS-* methodologies?

WSE

This is one of the most frequently asked questions on the newsgroups.

Since Verisign and Thawte do not speak “message-based security”, people are always confused about buying SSL Certificates for doing WSE or WCF.

It’s not just the vendors. Sometimes the people responsible for your networks are also hard to convince since message-based security just does not make sense in their world. They may not know which one is right either.

What have you had success with? What actual certificates (literally the name that the vendor applies to the cert) have you purchased from which vendors? There’s a myriad of choices, but it’s never easy to pick.