We’ve had weird weather all week. Constant forecasts of thunderstorms that never come and the air and sky is filled and ready to go for it constantly.It has made for some great sunsets. We saw an amazing one while at the Bob Dylan concert on July 1st thanks to a big cloud that was stuck on Mt. Mansfield.
There was another great one tonight that we saw from a friends house up on a hill.
I took this one from our front balcony earlier this week.
I opened up the Amazon.com site today and was quite startled to see this:
But when I viewed the source, I saw that rather than just one DIV that embedded all of this functionality (which is what I would expect from a Silverlight object) , there was a ton of html and script pulling this off, including a reference to:
new SWFObject(“http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/s9-ampaigns/MultiPackCarousel._V19505961_.swf
SWF spells Flash. Oh well.
Finally, I get to share Entity Framework with my own user group (in Burlington, VT)! Yay.
When: Monday, July 9th, 6-8:30pm
Where: Champlain College, Hauke Building Room 005 (375 Maple Street, Burlington, VT)
More info at www.vtdotnet.org
Of course, I’m spending all of my time futzing with the new bits that just got released earlier this week.
Not only do I have a cool technology to show off but we’ve got awesome raffles from Infragistics (a license to NetAdvantage) and from Code Zone (a fingerprint reader, Vista Ultimate license, a book from MSPress (Visual C# 2005: The Language) and some more of the fun GEEK mugs.
rspv@vtodtnet.org for pizza ($5 for pizza & soda – no sponsor this month).
Thanks to the Software Engineering Department at Champlain College for sponsoring the cost of the room all summer.