Tomorrow night Patti Smith is being inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Rock on.
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Busy week for .NET in Burlington (and free Vista and Office 2007 licenses)
The first three days of the week are busy ones!
On Monday, Vermont.NET is having it’s Vista/.NET 3.0 Launch meeting. Local brainiacs Mike Soulia and Rob Rohr will be presenting (after months of working with the Vista Launch team as part of the big user group roll out) and we’ll have 5 Windows Vista licenses to give away (plus free pizza & soda thanks to TEKSystems, who recently opened up an office in Burlington).
Tuesday is the TEchNet/MSDN Event in Burlington. It’s a day of training on Vista and Office 2007 products, with the morning focused on IT Pros and the afternoon for developers. Susan emailed me yesterday to say that they will be giving away Office 2007 licenses at the MSDN event!!!
I’ll be missing that though because I’ll be driving down to Albany to give a presentation to the Tech Valley .NET User Group about ADO.NET Orcas. Thanks to INETA for sponsoring this trip.
Then I drive back on Wednesday do to a GeekSpeak show with Susan Wisowaty (who is doing the MSDN event on Tuesday) and Glen Gordon. They were kind enough to move the time to later in the afternoon so that I’d be back from Albany on time and ready for action.
Talking about ADO.NET Orcas on MSDN GeekSpeak on Wednesday
GeekSpeak is a lot more free-form than a typical webcast and I’m not sure what to expect. I’ll have the new CTP of ORCAS open and I guess we’ll poke around Entity Framework and the three LINQ to ADO.NET techs (LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities nad LINQ to DataSet). And the most fun part is that I’ll be doing this with hosts Glen Gordon (who I did a webcast with on ADO.NET 2.0 topic a few years ago) and Susan Wisowaty (who lives right here in Burlington!), from the MSDN Events team.
The big Vista install day (and a touch screen!)
I’m building out two Vista boxes today. One is a new tablet and the other is my Dell XS280 with a brand new hard drive. Read more…
A DevLife post
More discussion on LINQ’s missing ToDataTablemethod
Erick Thompson from Microsoft followed up on a thread about where ToDataTable went in the march CTP. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1300671&SiteID=1
The downside of robbing homes during the winter
Police said witnesses reported seeing two males walking on **** at about noon. One of the men was carrying flat screen television; the other was carrying a large duffel bag.
Officers arrived within minutes and found the duffel bag and television behind another house on *****. They followed a set of tracks in the snow and within minutes, officers found *** and ***, who has been under the supervision of the state Department of Corrections.
Governor Douglas to speak at Next VTSDA meeting
Press Release
March 7th, 2007
Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance
*** Governor James Douglas will be making a presentation at a Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance event on March 21. ***
Governor James Douglas will be making remarks about the Vermont Software Development sector and its role in Vermont’s economic future. We’ve also been informed that he has plans to make a very special announcement regarding the vtSDA.
This event will be held on Wednesday, March 21st 2007 from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center. The governor is scheduled to speak at 12:00pm sharp, for about 20 minutes.
Mike Quinn, Commissioner of Economic Development and Pat Moulton, Commissioner of Labor, will follow the Governor’s remarks with a presentation and Q&A period about the Vermont business environment, specifically relating to the software industry.
Please, accept our invitation to attend this very exciting event for the vtSDA and the future of software development in the state of Vermont. We anticipate having 30-40 owners and executives of local software development firms in attendance, as well as a number of government and media representatives.
The details of the event are still being finalized. Once we have gathered all the appropriate information we will issue a follow-up announcement.
Questions? Please email us at marketing@vtsda.org
15 below…. brrrrr
It was -14.7 F at 7am this morning. It has warmed up to -7 right now (8:30am). The thermometer said it got as cold as -15.2 last night. BRRRRRRRRR.
Orcas forum activity – just a weekend thing?
Code Camp 7: Keep submitting those abstracts
I just took a peek at the list of abstracts on the Code Camp 7 site, with a thought to decreasing mine from three to two. However, there aren’t tons in there yet. There could SO easily be more. Do a chalk talk. Come show off someting you’ve been working on or something you think is really cool. There is no need for a TechEd type of presentation. If you’ve got a story to tell, surely there are plenty of geeks who will be interested in hearing about it!