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INETA Board Member Nominations end 2/15

Ineta

From the INETA NORAM Feb 2007 Newsletter:

Elections are being held for the INETA NorAm Board of Directors in mid-March. From now through February 15, 2007 any user group leader of an INETA registered user group in the United States and Canada can nominate an individual for a Board position. The nominee can be any member of the developer community and does not have to be a user group leader. Experience and familiarity with the operation and needs of the user group community is beneficial. You cannot nominate yourself, but any other user group leader may, so get someone to nominate you.

Read  more here…

Vermont IT Jobs: .NET WebDeveloper in Burlington

Jobs

Qvault, Inc. is actively recruiting individuals with strong web application, database-driven programming proficiency. Qvault is an entrepreneurial driven product-focused company with a series of exciting opportunities on the horizon. Successful candidates will play a major role in shaping the current and future products and services the company takes to market.

 

Desirable skills and experience include:

 

Visual Studio 2005

Object-Oriented Programming, fluency in C#

            ASP.NET, ADO.NET

            Web Services (XML, SOAP)

SQL Fundamentals

 

This is a full-time job, not a contractor position.

 

About Qvault

 

Qvault, Inc., a privately held corporation; develops, hosts and supports web based business intelligence and collaboration solutions for professional organizations throughout world. Our customers range from SMB to large multi-national organizations primarily in the dynamic real estate and mortgage industries.  Please visit our website at www.Qvault.com. 

 

Qvault’s main offices are located in downtown Burlington, Vermont.

 

Interested candidates please submit resume, salary requirements or other information in confidence to hr@qvault.com

Vermont IT Jobs: .NET Web Developer in Colchester

Jobs

R J Peters Associates (alt site http://www.avmax.net/) is seeking a:

NET Web Developer

 

We are looking for a mid-level .NET developer to create, update, and maintain internal and customer-facing web sites, .NET web applications, and XML web services.  Although the developer’s main task will be to write code, he will also be required to maintain the company databases including adding data, backups, and running reports. Candidate must be able to manage multiple projects and prioritize workflow, work alone without supervision, and communicate project status. 

 

The ideal candidate for this position will have:

  • Minimum 1-2 years experience creating web applications and web services using ASP.NET, C#, XML, ADO.NET, and Visual Studio 2005.
  • Proficiency with Windows Server 2003 technologies as relating to web development (IIS, FTP, Active Directory). 
  • Proficiency with SQL Server 2005 databases and the tools relating to the design, use, and maintenance of databases used by the web applications.
  • Proficiency with development cycle and use of source code management tools.

Pluses would include:

  • Advanced Windows 2003 administration
  • Advanced SQL Server skills
  • Proficiency setup and maintenance of ACT!

Salary commensurate wtih experience.

 

Contact

William M. Peters, President
R.J. Peters Associates, Inc.
97 Blakely Road, Ste 210
Colchester, Vermont 05446

 WmPeters@rjpetersinc.com
802 860-4700

 

LINQ to SQL in Web Apps at VTdotNET on Monday

Just Rambling

I’ll be doing a talk on Building Web Apps using LINQ to SQL at VTdotNET on Monday.

I have seen Scott Guthrie do a session on this topic a few times and got so excited I wanted to dig in more and show it off as well. Scott has probably done this talk at least 20 times over the past year, has posted his PPT and demos, writes about it and even has a a recent video webcast on the topic.

He’s a REALLY hard act to follow, but I have tried to stay away from his session as I build my own so that I’m not just trying to do his talk. One of the interesting things about LINQ is that although you can easily group it into things like straight queries, joins, filtering, shaped data, paging and insert/update/deletes and then “advanced :-)”, there are a LOT of ways to do queries. Just like there are a lot of ways to construct a query in any other query language. So in the 90 minutes I have to do my session, I will be giving some specific examples, but more importantly, trying to open up people’s eyes to the power and flexibility of using LINQ to SQL. Then I’ll point them to the 101+ samples as well as the more advanced stuff that people like Fabrice are doing.

I keep worrying that people will say “why do I need to bother coming to your session on this topic when I can just watch THE MASTER do it.” Ummm, free pizza?

But, I trudge on…

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to help with the search for Jim Gray

Just Rambling

Watching the Tenacious Search blog over the past few days, the only name I was familiar with was Werner Vogels, who a few years ago went from researching at Cornell over to Amazon. I know Werner’s a brilliant guy! Even though I am astounded by what I have been reading on the blog (people pointing satellites in the area where Gray was last known to be, the satellite imagery becoming available through the blog, the discussion of what people are doing with teh imagery), I had no idea who the brains behind all of these names were. This NY Times article, published today, enlightened me quite a bit. What has been obvious is that the technology and the minds that Jim Gray has developed, inspired and influenced over the years are all being put into force to help try to locate him.

It’s a dazzling effort, though so far, with heartbreaking results – not a hint of him has been found yet. This isn’t the Bermuda Triangle we’re talking about. How can it be that not one piece of evidence (even if it’s evidence of something tragic) can be found.

You can help, too. Amazon has an app that will display a handful of the satellite images with explanation of what you are looking for. You can go there and look at images and mark them. It’s called Amazon Mechanical Turk.