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Full Day C# Mini CodeCamp April 30th in Waltham – last call to register

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VTdotNetters –

Last call to register – Mini CodeCamp C# Special Edition with Richard Hale Shaw (@ Watham MA All day Saturday April 30th).

Done in the CodeCamp tradition and will benefit VB/C++ developers who want to get into .NET or C# programmers looking for an all-day refresher course.

(thanks SB for the copy/paste!)

p.s. Come to a geek dinner with Richard in Burlington on Thursday night (April 7). Watch this post for the location

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New VB6 Resource Center

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(yeah, I know it’s been blogged by many people tonight – but this is awesome and I want to push it to my user group website!!)

Microsoft has just launched the VBRun dev center for VB6 developers

Here are the sections highlighted on the start page

Greatest Hits – highlighting some of hte best “black-belt” VB6 content from the MSDN site

VB Fusion – how to interop between VB6 and .NET

Stay the Path – how to leverage your VB6 expertise in VB.NET (I love this just from it’s description!)

Check this stuff out!!

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Mario Cardinal – Solutions Architect MVP

Community Cheerleading

Happy news from my friend Mario Cardinal in Montreal who has been awarded MVP for Solutions Architect. Mario came to VTdotNET in January to teach us about Enterprise Services Applications Blocks before they were even released. He had done so much research just based on the documentation with no code available. Mario has a French .NET talk show called BlaBladotNET. I have never listened to it of course because my french is pretty limited! Congrats Mario!

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MVP – What about me?

Just Rambling

I saw Paschal’s MVP post and the follow up conversation about it. I have been mulling this over and decided to comment on it as well. When I read the post I thought that Paschal was asking “what about Ireland?” and throwing caution to the wind regarding how he is perceived. To me, that matches up pretty well with his claim that he doesn’t want to be an MVP. His message, as I read it, was “not even one MVP in all of Ireland? Hello?”. And he said it even if it meant that, by making a stink about it, he looked, well, like a bit of a stinker.

I understand that message. I have been known to ping MVP leads about some people from Vermont that I wanted to make sure they were aware of. I was delighted to meet up with another Vermont geek at the MVP summit last year! And this is just a little state, not an entire country.

One of the issues for the MVP leads is that people need to get on their radar in order to be considered. Sometimes it takes someone else to make that happen. And even then, there are generally more qualified people than the numbers they are allowed to award to.

So, Paschal and I have different methods. I happen to know some of the leads so I can leverage those connections. He has his blog which definitely gets read, so that’s the route he takes. How about use the blog a little further – like have a category: “People I think should be on the MVP radar” – or something like that.

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Great Topic, Great Speaker and Great Swag at Next VTdotNET Meeting

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Our next Vermont.NET meeting is Monday, April 11th. Robert Hurlbut is driving up from New Hampshire to teach us about Test Driven Development, Unit Testing and NUnit. I am really looking forward to this. I also managed to get a few copies of Dr. Neil Roodyn’s Extreme.NET to give away at the meeting. Also, even though it’s not exactly on topic, I can’t help but raffle off copies of James Avery’s new Visual Studio Hacks that arrived a few days back. Darn right I’m keeping a copy for myself. A quick look through left me really impressed. I will write about that later. We also have some swag from the last INETA mailing – Dundas Gauge for .NET.

So this will be a great meeting, very informative and excellent resources and tools to share. Thanks to O’Reilly, Addison Wesley, INETA, Dundas and Robert!!



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