Daily Archives: January 6, 2007

Vermont.NET Meeting this Monday! Thanks Altova!

We have a fun session coming up on Monday.

 

Six VTdotNET members will show off some of their favorite productivity tools. Some of these tools are free, some are shareware and some are commercial. The demos will be fast and furious. Here’s the skinny:

 

·         Mike Soulia: XMLSpy (xpath features)   

·         Chris DeGuise: ReSharper

·         Dave Burke: CodeSmith  

·         Rob Hale: Beyond Compare

·         Bret Griswold: Code Charge Studio

·         Julie Lerman: SnagIt, PureText, TimeSnapper & 2 PowerToys 

·         Bob LoCicero: NotePad++, ExamDiff, SyncToy, XmlNotepad & Toad Free Modeller

 

PIZZA & SODA will be sponsored by ALTOVA, makers of XMLSpy.

Please rsvp for a pizza count! rsvp@vtdotnet.org

 

Big Thanks to ALTOVA!

We got a big box of swag from Altova including:

 5 license of DiffDog as raffles for the meeting. It should be fun!

DiffDog is an XML-aware diff/merge tool for file and directory differencing.

 

Date: Monday, Jan 8th

Time: 6:00 – 8:30

Location: Vermont Tech, Williston Campus

 

More Info at www.vtdotnet.org

Five Things (This is Dave Burke’s fault)

Dave Burke’s Five Things … listing some interesting personal details of his life that you probably didn’t know (and I certianly didn’t and was fascinated) has tasked me with trying to the do the same.

The problem is that I think anyone who reads my blog already knows anything that might be somewhat interesting about my deep dark past.

But now I realize that i’m not allowed to bail. I’ve also been tagged by Andy Beaulieu. So here goes:

  1. I have been to a Playmate of the Year party at Hugh Hefner’s mansion in L.A.
  2. I was a Cosmo Girl for two years in a row – interviewed by Helen Gurley Brown for Cosmopolitan Magazine’s annual “what are young, cosmopolitan women thinking about home, fashion, work, romance, money, etc.”
  3. I have written software for Macs.
  4. My first programming experience was on home-built Heathkit computers (by the math profs at my college).
  5. For about 10 years, I split my time between programming and pottery. I had space in studio near my apartment in Brooklyn and spent about 20 hours a week there. I hope to pot again someday.

Okay, now who am I going to tag? Hmmm.

  1. Mike Gunderloy
  2. Kate Gregory
  3. hmmm Sam’s been there and done that. Apparently, C was not his first language after all! 😉
  4. Camey Combs
  5. Amanda Murphy