Daily Archives: February 7, 2008

POW-Dah

Vermont

From Mad River’s website this morning:

POWDER CENTRAL at Mad River Glen today as we picked up a solid 12″ overnight. This on top of the 8-10″ yesterday, on top of the 4-6″ from the day before that so we will be approaching EPIC skiing conditions today on Gen. Stark Mountain. I was no math major but I think that like 2 feet in the past 3 days! It continues to dump snow vigorously and the best part is it should continue to do so all day with well over a foot total expected. Actually the best part really is that yet another big storm is winding up to wallop us again this weekend

So after a lifetime of learning how to ski on hard packed snow and ice (we’re talking eastern skiing), I’m now having to learn how to ski in real powder. My skis are too skinny, that’s for sure. But if I find powder that is a little fluffier, I’m turning like a champ. If it’s too heavy I unexpectedly revert to the snowplow I learned when I was 6 years old.Well, at least it’s a really soft landing when you fall. When my ego and my energy level fail me, I can always fall back on that old excuse: “ummm, I have to go home and get back to work!”

Vermont IT Jobs: Five software developer (.NET) positions in Stowe

Jobs

From TEKsystems 

 

These jobs are getting listed on thingamajob.com, but not all of them seem to be there yet. Here’s a direct link to TEKsystem’s listings.

 

Title                 Software Developer

Location:         Stowe

Number of openings:  3

Responsibilities: 

Software Developers provide the technical expertise to create enhancements, code corrections, and new functionality.   Software Developers fulfill both the support and development programming roles and work in teams with other developers, support, QA and management when appropriate.

 

Requirements

·      Minimum of 3 years experience developing and supporting software applications in a Windows environment.

·      Four year college degree or equivalent experience – Bachelor’s degree desired.

·      Able to learn and master new technology quickly and improve personal performance through continual self-study.

·      Desire to provide outstanding products and customer service.

·      Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to cope with diversity and complexity in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment.

·      Strong interpersonal and team relationship skills and able to work well individually or as part of a team.

·      Demonstrated understanding of the following: Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server in conjunction with software development.

·      Experience utilizing one or more of the following:  SQL Server 2000/2005, .NET.

·      Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality concerning development products.

·      Detailed knowledge of one or more SMS software products helpful (i.e., two or more years of installation, product management, or systems support experience) or able to thoroughly learn SMS software products.

·      Demonstrated technical writing ability and basic email skills.

·      Extremely detail oriented and dedicated to follow-through in all work with a focus on project quality, completeness, and thoroughness.

 

 

Title                 Senior Software Developer

Location:         Stowe

Number of openings:   2

Responsibilities: 

Senior Software Developers provide the technical expertise and leadership to create technical architectures and designs, enhancements, code corrections, and new functionality.   Senior Software Developers fulfill both the support and development programming roles and work in teams with other developers, support, QA and management when appropriate.

 

Requirements

·      Minimum of 5-7 years experience developing and supporting web based applications in a Windows environment.

·      Four year college degree or equivalent experience – Bachelor’s degree desired.

·      Able to learn and master new technology quickly and improve personal performance through continual self-study.

·      Desire to provide outstanding products and customer service.

·      Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to cope with diversity and complexity in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment.

·      Strong interpersonal and team relationship skills and able to work well individually or as part of a team.

·      Demonstrated understanding of the following: Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server in conjunction with software development.

·      Experience utilizing one or more of the following: SQL Server 2000/2005, .NET.

·      Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality concerning development products.

·      Detailed knowledge of one or more SMS software products helpful (i.e., two or more years of installation, product management, or systems support experience) or able to thoroughly learn SMS software products.

·      Demonstrated technical writing ability and basic email skills.

·      Extremely detail oriented and dedicated to follow-through in all work with a focus on project quality, completeness, and thoroughness.

 

Contact

      Alicia Ferraro

aferraro@teksystems.com
TEKsystems – Boston, MA
111 Speen Street
Suite 520
Framingham, MA  01701

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions enables Page View history with AJAX

ASP.NET

One of the drawbacks with the partial postbacks in AJAX is that you can’t go forward or back in your web browser to different states of the page created by the partial postbacks. Nor can you create a shortcut to one of the views.

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions has functionality in there to enable these scenarios. It’s pretty simple to pull off thanks to the new tools.

Jonathan Carter has a great post on how to use this. It’s just #1 of more to come so keep tuned. Jonathan is a new to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Developer Platform and Evangelism team with the dream job of writing and speaking about all the cool things you can do in VS. You can tell by his post that he will be a great resource for us to learn new features.

Variety of EF talks by different folks around the world

Data Access

I mentioned a few days ago that Matthieu Mezil will be presenting on Entity Framework at TechDays 2008 in Paris next week.

There are more at this conference!

  • LINQ & Entity Framework: Fabrice Marguerie & Sebastien Ros
  • ADO.NET Data Service: Mitsu FUruta & Pierre Lagarde
  • There are also a bunch of LINQ talks – too many to list, in fact!

And there are more EF talks upcoming at other conferences as well!  (Including my own, of course ;-))

DevWeek in London March 10-14:
 “Understanding the ADO.NET Entity Framework” (Mike Taulty)
 “Patterns of use with the new Entity Framework” (James Winters)
This looks like a great conference filled with a huge list of rock star speakers, although, oddly, it’s all men. I wonder if that will impact female attendance (either positively, thanks to all those good looking, brainy guys or negatively, if they are afraid they will feel out of place.)

There don’t seem to be any EF talks at VSLive for San Francisco or Orlando. Too bad.

Developer Summit 2008 April 9-11 in Stockholm
   Full Day Workshop on Entity Framework (by me 🙂 Yay, I get to go to Sweden!)
   ADO.NET Data Services (by WCF & Web Services guru: Christian Weyer)
   Advanced Entity Framework: EDM in the Enterprise (by me)

DevConnections (April 20 – 23 Orlando) has a whole Data Access track now!
   Full Day Workshop on Entity Framework (by me) on April 20th
   During the conference Proper:
   On Microsoft Day, 2 EF sessions, an Astoria Session and a guidance session on choosing from the myriad data access tools
  On the third party days, 2 EF sessions by John Papa, 1 by me and 1 by Kathleen Dollard (and additional ADO.NET sessions as well!). I’ll also be doing a session on ADO.NET Data Services in the ASP Connections track.

DevTeach (May 12-15 Toronto)
   Intro to Entity Framework (Barry Gervin)
   An Advanced EF session and a data access guidance session by me

If you know of any others, send me a note and I’ll list it!