The next Vermont.NET meeting is Monday April 10th.
I will be presenting a session called “5 Supposedly Scary Things in.NET“. It will be a high level introduction to
I have a full license to VS2005 Professional and SQL Server 2005 Standard to license off.
Pizza & Soda will be sponsored by DottNetJobs.com, a job portal for .NET jobs as well as SQL Server and ASP jobs.
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Vermont is in the midst of “sugarin'” season when the sap is flowing and sugarmakers everywhere are boiling one of Vermont’s trademark products. The local paper, Burlington Free Press has some stories, a video and a slide show of sugarin’ and boilin’ on their site today.
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DonXML took the plunge and went back to being on someone’s payroll. This has been on my mind a lot since I read his post. [read more…]
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Hopefully a word of warning to future crown-toothed friends.
I suffered through a 2 hour dentist appointment yesterday. It was #2 of what was supposed to be three appointments for getting crown. #1 was to build the tooth back up. #2 (yesterday) was to prep the tooth, take molds for the crown and get a temporary. #3 is going to be applying the crown.
However,this morning, when I was brushing my teeth, the temporary popped off and though I tried to spit it into my hand, was nowhere to be found. Obviously down the drain. I was a little tired to actually think to close the drain first. Duh.
So tomorrow morning, it’s back to the dentist (for which I have no insurance) for another temporary crown. Oy vey!
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I just happened to be looking at the INETA “Upcoming Speaking Engagements” page and was struck by the fact that there are SIX events tonight!
| Bill Evjen | San Diego .NET User Group | 3/28/2006 |
| Bill Vaughn | KC .NET User Group | 3/28/2006 |
| Chris Menegay | Aggieland (Texas A&M Univeristy) .NET Developers | 3/28/2006 |
| Jeff Prosise | East TN .NET User group | 3/28/2006 |
| Kathleen Dollard | Lower Alabama .NET User Group | 3/28/2006 |
| Mike Amundsen | Cincinnati .NET User Group | 3/28/2006 |
It’s also amazing to see events scheduled all the way through to the end of 2006. It’s definitely hard to plan that far ahead, though I do have some INETA talks already scheduled in September!
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There was an article in the local paper about Computer Camps offered by the South Burlington School District this summer.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have kids, but I was definitely a surprise to see a robotics class for 6 year olds!
Here’s the whole list which sounds like a blast! (No pun intended wrt the rocket tech class 🙂 )
Robotics: Beginning robotics for grades one-three; mastering mazes for grades four-seven.
Rocket Tech: Grades three-six; learn how to build, test and launch solid propellant rockets.
Programming a Computer Game with HyperStudio: Grades four-eight.
3D Computer Animation: Grades six-12; introduction, advanced modeling, advanced animation and advanced team project.
Animating Your Web Site with Flash: Grades seven to adult.
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If you’ve ever wondered how Rick manages to churn out so much, the secret is out….
Not only can you write web services today that can be consumed by WCF (Indigo) apps in the future, but working with WSE 3.0 today to secure your web services will also help you get a handle on many of the concepts of WCF. I have written an article for DevSource called “Using WSE 3.0 Today to Secure Web Services Tomorrow” based on current guidance (based on WSE 3.0 and WCF Beta 1) on just such a topic.
I will also be doing a talk on this topic next week at DevConnections.
Thanks to Mark Fussell for his insights on this topic.
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With most conferences,speakers need to submit their powerpoints way in advace of the conferences. Attendees are provided with books filled with the printouts of the decks so that they can take notes during the conference. It is not uncommon with a new talk to fine tune it between that early preparation and the actual time you your presentation.
Though this has only happened once, it struck me (and stuck in my brain) when an attendee wrote on an eval that it was a pain that the slides in my talk were different than the book.
So this time around,rather than hoping that I’m going to remember in the middle of a talk and say “oh, I changed this slide a little (for your benefit)” I am just putting tiny little notes on the bottom of modified slides: “This slide is slightly modified from the original printed version”.
Hopefully that will mean one less negative comment this time around! 🙂
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I now have built three VPCs to be used as bases for various testing. I can make a copy of a VPC and then use that copy to install “dangerous” bits – eg betas, ctps etc.
My first VPC is a clean Windows XP SP2 system with all of the current updates.
My second VPC is that plus .NET 2.0, VS2005 RTM and SQL Server Express RTM. I can the throw things like Atlas or WinFX on top of them. It took quite a long time to install this. So I won’t have to do that again.
My third VPC is #2 PLUS the WinFX February CTP Components , SDK and VS2005 Extensions for WinFX. I plan to experiment with WCF (and need a very clean copy of this for a DevConnections session) with and without Atlas installed on top of it (ergo I want two) and also WPF.
I spent about two days creating them and then tucked them away onto my 200GB drive. Then I can make a copy on my external hard drive and go to town.
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