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Some notes about DevTeach: Early bird discount, user group discounts, get to know the speakers
Jean-Rene sent out a great email about DevTeach today. Here are some key elements from it:
Save 200$ by taking advantage of DevTeach early bird.
This year, we are offering an early bird of 200$ CAN for attendees that are registering before February 28th, 2006. Registered attendees have accessed to the DevTeach 2005 Archive sessions material for download.
The User Groups Rebate program is back in 2006. We are offering 50.00$ off the registration cost to all members of user groups registered with INETA, Pass, Culminis or the Universal Thread User Group Meeting Tracker. To benefit of this rebate, members need to enter a rebate code when processing their registration. This rebate can be combined with the early bird discount which gives a 200.00$ rebate until Fabruary 28th. User group leaders can request this rebate code good for 50$ off the registration by sending an email to jrroy@DevTeach.com.
Get to know our speakers by reading their blog and listening to their talk show interviews.
Most of our speakers write regularly in their blog and have been interviewed by the Dot Net Rock Talk Show or the Visual Studio Show. Get to know our speakers by reading their blog and listening to their latest interview on talk shows. The DevTeach conference include a top selection of speakers having a strong experience in various areas. Most of these speakers are presenting at major conferences around the world on a regular base and in other areas as well such as user groups, corporate training and class training.
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Vermont Software Developer Alliance gets a new website
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Congrats to Greg Low, new RD down under
Greg was my A#1 contact for all things INETA down under, so I was happy to see this announcement on Frank Arrigo’s blog this morning.
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A harsh debugging lesson – APIs that try to handle their own exceptions
I’m not sure if I should cry in relief or frustration. I just spent hours and hours trying to get at the cause of a NullReferenceException being thrown by my application. I could not trap it, inspect it or even get rid of it by grabbing a straws. I finally got rid of it, but only by a stroke of luck. [Read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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Are we on NetFlix “ship ’em slowly” list?
Our NetFlix facility is 100 miles away in White River Junction Vermont. It takes one day for mail to get there. We can’t figure out why the website says that movies are “received” by them 6 days – 4 business days – after we mailed them back.
I don’t think we are uber-renters, destined for the list that we’ve been reading about lately. But it’s pretty annoying and of course not very easy to complain to anyone. The only types of problems they seem to let you report are if you are missing a sleeve or scratched DVD. Otherwise you get in a hopeless loop searching for a way to contact them.
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ClickOnce wants me to update from the deployment server when I’m in debug mode?
Here is a project that I am now publishing through clickonce.
I just opened the project up in VS2005 and saw all of these warnings. Sheesh, here we go again…
(Note: I got an email from Patrick Darragh who is a Program Manager on the VB Team and has a lot to do with ClickOnce. Patrick tells me that “those warnings are controlled by the ‘Verify files uploaded to the server’ property on the Publish Options dialog off the Publish tab. If you uncheck this property, the warning should go away.”)

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m&m redux
I couldn’t resist buying my honey a big ol’ bag of M&Ms for Valentines Day because I knew I had M&M wrapping paper at home. Heh heh.

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Vermont IT Jobs: Web Developer in Burlington
Would you like to work out of a newly renovated office with awesome views, great
co-workers and the best coffee machine in Burlington, VT? Do you have solid web
development chops, good customer service and interpersonal skills, the ability to
work under deadlines, and a good sense of humor? This job may be for you…
Union Street Media, a leading Vermont web design and development company, is seeking to add
a new Web Developer to our team. Since 1999, we have developed database-driven web sites
focusing on visual appeal, usability, and search engine prominence. The company serves over
250 clients in three primary business areas: real estate, e-commerce, and content-driven sites.
USM is a young, aggressive company requiring its employees to wear many hats. As a member
of our development staff, the person who fills this role will be responsible for helping in the
development and support of our clients’ web sites. The role requires timeliness in project
delivery, attention to detail, and a high degree of professionalism. We’re looking for a
hard working team player who enjoys working on the web. Those who don’t play well
with others need not apply.
Previous experience at a web development or marketing firm is preferred, but not required.
The position comes with a host of benefits including health insurance contribution, a gym
membership, dog-friendly atmosphere, and access to our stash of ski vouchers.
Functions/Responsibilities:
• Strong people skills and team mentality
• Work with all members of the USM team to develop web sites for clients
• Build sites using USM’s CMS; design custom templates for various modules.
• Thorough understanding of HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Web Standards, usability
• Working knowledge of PHP, MySQL
• Keeping skill set up to date with current design and technologies
• Help with support tickets, spam filtering, DNS changes, setting up FTP and email accounts
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience
Schedule:
This full-time position in our Burlington, Vermont office is open immediately.
To Apply:
Email resumé, cover letter, and three references to jobs@unionstreetmedia.com .
No phone calls please.
Union Street Media is an equal opportunity employer.
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Exactly WHEN did you ship that .NET 2.0 product?
I’m looking at a VS2005 ad in CoDe Magazine – part of the “spot the difference” campaign. The before picture has people meeting around a table with an obvious work load ahead. The after picture shows them after they have launched their product. But there is something bugging me about the after picture. The gold master framed dvd on the wall is dated October 7, 2005. So they shipped their product based on VS2005 Beta 2? Eek!
okay back to work…
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