Monthly Archives: October 2006

WS-FTP Pro 2006 and IE7 : “NEVER!” ?

Tools

I have WS-FTP Pro 7.0 on both multiple computers as well as the newly released IE7.

One computer has no troubles. The other gives me this interesting error when I try to start it up:

The only solution is to click ok and then kill the app from task manager.

Luckily, I found this thread in the Ipswitch forums (which also decries a lack of support from WS-FTP) where a user (who is clearly a pit-bull and chose not to give up on finding a solution – thank you Suzy!!!) has managed to find how to fix the problem, which calls for “hiding” an outdated file.

navigate to where your WSFTP is installed e.g.
c:/program files/ipswitch/ws_ftp professional
and rename PSAPI.dll to PSAPI.dll.old and then reboot

It worked. Yay.

.NET Jobs: ASP.NET Developers in Lebanon, New Hamphire

Jobs

Nexus Energy Software is growing again. Headquartered in Wellesley, MA, we are looking for professional Software Engineers for our Lebanon, NH office.

We’re looking for mid-level and senior Engineers to join our talented development team who like to keep their software skills up-to-date and take pride in delivering high quality solutions to satisfied customers.

We offer competitive salaries, medical, dental, 401K, and more in a dynamic yet relaxed work place. www.nexusenergy.com.

Work as a member of our development team in designing, developing and unit testing company applications using solid software development processes and practices. Our applications provide billing, account management and energy analysis functionality for utility customers.

5-10 years of SW development experience, VB.NET and/or C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML, XSLTs, SQL, source control software and Visual Studio, maintaining code written by others, strong problem solving skills required. Experience with build and installation tools a plus.

Please forward your resume with salary requirements to:

Nexus Energy Software;

laurie.nexusenergysoftware@comcast.net

Fax: 508.879.3898

Equal Opportunity Employer

No phone calls or third parties, please.

Code Camp 6 (Boston) Schedule is up – NOTE SATURDAY ONLY!

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The schedule for this weekend’s Code Camp in Waltham, Mass is live. This Code Camp will be packing all of the sessions into one day – Saturday, rather than spread out over two.

If you haven’t registered to attend yet, you can register here.

I’ll be doing three talks throughout the day:

9am: Managing and Deploying ASP.NET 2.0 Website: This talk is aimed at sorting out all of the options for creating, compiling and deploying ASP.NET 2.0 websites along with tips for making the best choices.

1:15 pm: Persisting Ink on the Web. If you are interested in creating ASP.NET Web apps with ink capabilities for Tablet PC users, this session offers a slew of information about what to do with the ink once it’s collected. Handling ink in a website is very different than working with it in a windows application. This session will deal with things like how to deal with postbacks, sending the ink to another web page, storing ink into a database and retriving it and getting ink to and from web services and more.

4:45 pm: Handling Big Data in ADO.NET 2.0: Most demos and samples for ADO.NET deal with small amounts of data and simplistic functions. This session will take a look at how to design and code your data layer for dealing with real-world, high-end, data-intensive applications. We’ll look at some advanced patterns for handling more sophisticated scenarios such as updating huge amounts of data, leveraging middle-tier caching for heavy traffic Web sites, and an inmemory query processor that the ADO.NET team has built that we can use today. Much of what will be shown will leverage features of ADO.NET 2.0 as well as some of the performance improvements that have been made to the internals.

VTSDA meeting tomorrow: Tom Evslin: Developer, Entrepreneur, Author

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Next Meeting — Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Tom Evslin

Software developer, entrepreneur, author

Tom Evslin’s remarkable career has taken him from nerd to CEO to novelist and consultant with a brief stop as Transportation Secretary for the State of Vermont.  He founded and ran a successful Vermont software company for a number of years, an experience which became a springboard to even bigger and better things.

Tom’s talk will be wide ranging and very interactive.  It will include:

  • His recent work with the Governor’s Committee of Telecom to address broadband issues in Vermont.
  • Hearing members’ input about jobs that are possible, or not possible, given the current state of broadband.
  • Clever ways that people have coped with broadband limitations.
  • The benefits of “open spectrum”.
  • Tom reading from his novel hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble.
  • Q&A about the book, the bubble, and the technology used to serialize the book online (available free at www.hackoff.com in text and podcast versions)

His novel “hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble” is available free online and for purchase from Amazon and other outlets. His popular blog Fractals of Change is at blog.tomevslin.com.

Tom EsvlinEvslin was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world’s leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired.

Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T’s first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant.

At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange’s predecessor Microsoft Mail.

Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc. (a software company he founded and he and Mary ran) were sold to Microsoft. In the 1970s Solutions developed the first commercial EFT software for banks. In the 1980s Solutions was the first developer of commercial communications software for the Macintosh.

Evslin is a member of the Board of Directors of The Snelling Center for Government and of ShoreCap Exchange.  In the private sector, he is a board member of FeedBlitz LLC.

For many years Evslin was Policy Chairman of the Voice on the Net Coalition and a member of the organization’s Board of Directors.

Evslin is an inventor on six granted US patents.  He lives in Stowe, Vermont.

Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Place: Courtyard by Marriott
           175 Hurricane Lane
           Williston, VT

Plenty of free parking
Map & directions

Agenda:
12:00 – 12:45      Lunch and Informal Networking
12:45 – 2:00        Presentation & Discussion

Meeting Fee: $10
To help offset the cost of lunch, we charge a meeting fee. Please RSVP at least 24 hours prior to the event to ensure that a lunch is available for you. To RSVP, please email meetings@vtsda.org.

Upcoming meetings

November 15 Tom Rainey
President of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies

December 13 TBD
Date change! December’s meeting will be on the second Wednesday.