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dug nap, Vermont artist

Vermont

One of my favorite local arists in Vermont is dug nap. Dug is very clever, very witty, very talented and sometimes very naughty. Luckily for me, he makes greeting cards of lots of his artwork so I can buy and share his art very easily. The best I can do for the rest of you is at least to point you to his website so you can cruise around. A new card that I saw yesterday for the first time has one of of his always right-on observations : “Women are from Paris, Men are from Jersey City”. That makes me laugh. Isn’t it true? We women like to think of ourselves as connoisseurs, bastions of good taste and sophistication. I feel like that sometimes. I want to watch foreign art films and Rich likes shoot’em up bang ’em up movies. I want to make some fancy schmancy recipe that takes weeks to find the ingredients and days to prepare the meal and Rich is happy with this.



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Christmas in July- Thanks Addison-Wesley

dotNET

I received a box filled with books from Addison-Wesley today. The next meeting of Vermont.NET will be an ADO.NET blowout with Mike Soulia from Kiss the Cook & Apple Mountain doing the .NET Newbie session on ADO.NET and then I will be doing one of my favorite new talks: What’s new in ADO.NET 2.0. One of the books I have multiple copies of for the meeting is the beta2 version of the ADO.NET 2.0 & System.XML 2.0 book by my pals Alex Homer, Dave Sussman and Mark Fussell (who is now the program manager on the WSE team).

Because they are in Boston, A-W was also able to pull through on a fast box of books for the first meeting of CNY .Net Developers which is on Wednesday.

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Pulling out some stops for a new .NET User Group

Community Cheerleading

Thanks to DevExpress for coming up with some great swag for the first meeting of Central New York Developers.NET.

Andy Beaulieu will be raffling off two of DevExpress’s extremely popular VS.NET add-ins, CodeRush and the language neutral Refactor!Pro for VS2005. Don’t forget, you can get Refactor! for VB2005 for free.

Did you know that CodeRush works with VS2002, VS2003 and VS2005 Beta2? Those guys are way too slick! 🙂



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Central NY .NET Developer User Group Kickoff meeting: August 3rd

Community Cheerleading

I’m really excited about this new group that Andy Beaulieu is starting in Syracuse, New York (www.cnydevelopers.net). That’s where I grew up (Cazenovia) and my dad grew up in Syracuse too, so I have a lot of ties there.

Andy has been working hard to build up interest and I’m sure this first meeting on August 3rd will be great. There will be a talk by Andy (who has been programming for over 10 years) and by the MSDN Developer Community Champion for NY State, Rob Jackson.

I’m looking forward to visiting the group sometime this fall and presenting (and visiting my parents!).

If you know any .NET developers in the Syracuse, NY area, point them to this new group!

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