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$450 to exit the plane

Purely Personal

I was looking into possibly flying to Harrisburg PA from Burlington. US Air flies there by way of their hub in Philadelphia. The fare for my travel date was about $550 – $600. I considered just doing the one leg to Philadelphia and driving the other 100 miles. The fair from Burlington to Philadelphia was over $1000. It is the same flight that I would be on if I flew to Harrisburg. I will never understand this stuff! Thank goodness for travel agents.

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CoDe Focus Magazine: Tablet PC and Mobile PC Development – FREE!

Tablet

CoDe Magazine will soon be putting out a special focus issue on Tablet PC and Mobile PC Development. There will be articles on a wide range of Tablet PC and Mobile topics by Billy Hollis, Dr. Neil Roodyn, Carl Franklin, Markus Egger, Larry O’Brien, myself and others.  

This is one of their “CoDe Focus” issues and you can get one for free by signing up here.

 

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Lake George tragedy

Purely Personal

Lake George in the Adirondacks is somewhat local to us. It is a specatular lake that is very big and has many personalities. The town of Lake George is at the southern tip of the lake and is a major tourist town spring summer and fall. This is shocking news. Elderly people, some in walkers and wheelchairs. Today was such a beautiful day. The lake was calm. It shouldn’t have happened.

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Speaking at CNY .NET Developers in Syracuse NY this Wednesday, Oct 5th

Presentations

Just a reminder that I will be presenting at the CNY .NET Developers User Group in my home territory of E. Syracuse, NY this Wednesday. My parents still live only about 1 1/2 hours away, it was really easy to justify the 6 hour drive each way as I will actually go to visit my folks for a few days and then do the talk while I’m there. Darn I wish they didn’t still have dialup!

I will be presenting on What’s New in ADO.NET 2.0, a session I enjoy doing quite a lot!!

Although CNY is a new INETA member, this is not an INETA talk, however, I do have two others coming up. WeProgram.NET in December and TechValley.NET in January.

Dr. Neil on Channel 9!!

Community Cheerleading

Dr. Neil Roodyn contracts with a few different teams at Microsoft, and spends 1/2 the year travelling around the world as a consultant. He has a PhD in Software Architecture for Real Time Systems, recently wrote a book on Extreme Programming (Extreme .NET), is a Tablet PC geek, and runs ViaVirtualEarth. And that only represents a small slice of his recent ventures. Neil is a fascinating and very nice guy who I was fortunate to meet and befriend at the Tablet PC DevLab last summer. Check out Robert Scoble’s Channel 9 interview of Dr. Neil.

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“Persisting Ink on the Web” article is on MSDN Online

Tablet

This summer, I spent some time working through a host of scenarios to move ink data around when you have collected it on a web page. Because the ink data is only available on the client side, there are a number of hoops to jump through and pitfalls to avoid. “Persisting Ink on the Web” walks through each of the following tasks:

  • Transferring Ink to another Ink-Enabled Control on the Same Page
  • Transferring Ink to an Ink Control on Another Page in a New Browser Window
  • Moving Ink to Another Page in the Same Browser Window
  • Transferring Ink to Another Page as a GIF
  • Storing Ink in an XML File on the Web Server to Be Used at a Later Time
  • Storing and Retrieving Ink from a SQL Server Database
  • Sending Ink to a Web Service
  • Surviving a Postback

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