MSDN Developer Community Champions – See their alter-egos

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I was just on the MSDN Speakers page to grab a pic of Burlington based Susan Wisowaty who is one of the MSDN DCC’s and noticed something really fun that they have done to the site.

All of the DCCs have straight photos – serious and wearing their Microsoft shirts. But when you hover the mouse over the pictures, you see a real picture of that person. Bernard Wong competing with the sun in an ultra-bright t-shirt (you can always pick him out in a crowd!) ; Susan in her moto-cross gear :-), Russ Fustino in his tool-man garb, Rory Blyth being, well, Rory; and more. It’s really fun since I know a bunch of these folks. Go check it out!

Susan will be presenting on Avalon (WPF) at our July 17th Vermont.NET meeting. Before she worked for Microsoft, she showed up at meetings in her leathers more than once!

Lots of blogs coming from Mix

Just Rambling

Between the weblogs.asp.net feed and a variety of other individual feeds that I am subscribed to, I’m getting lots of good info streaming in from Mix.

My favorite comment so far was by Andrew Stopford who noted that everyone’s reading name badges as they pass each other (“do I know him?” “do I know her?” “should I?”) but that Tim O’Reilly read his badge but kept walking. Heck, I would have expected the same. Though the day Bill Gates stops on the stairway to say “Hey, Julie! I’ve been hoping to meet you someday!” is the day that I can say “my work here’s been done” and go back to being a potter and pursue my other life dream at the same time. 😉

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Support Team Hansleman in a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association

Community Cheerleading

In addition to sharing all of the great computer and programming knowledge that breeds in his amazing brain, Scott Hanselman has always been very “out” about his diabetes in an effort to share his lessons, spread what knowedge he can and aid in pushing the envelope with respect to the technology that exists for those with diabetes.

Now Scott, his wife and Team Hanselman are walking in a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. There are a lot of reasons to support him in this, whether it’s in thanks for all that he has done for your own personal programming skills, his contributons to the .NET community, because Scott’s just a great guy or even just to support a really good cause.

Read more on Scott’s blog and find out how to help Team Hanselman acheive their goal of raising $10,000.

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What was I doing again?

Just Rambling

Has this ever happened to you? An idea pops into your head and you open up your web browser to check it out. But because the home page of your web browser is pointed to a news website, the minute you see the home page filled with news (good and bad) you completely forgot what it was that you had meant to look up only one second ago.

This happens to me way too often.

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Michele’s posting gobs of code samples from her SD West sessions

Presentations

Michele Leroux Bustamante has posted code samples from her sessions at SD West. The posts keep coming and coming. I think she did something like 40 sessions! Not really, but it looks like she did 5 regular sessions and 2 half day sessions. I do not know how on earth she manages that. It must be an IDesign thing, since Michele and Brian Noyes and Juval Lowy also do a zillion talks each at DevConnections.

Speaking of DevConnections – it’s only in 2 more weeks! April 2-5. I’ll be doing three talks this time, Advanced Data Access in ADO.NET 2.0, Building WSE 3.0 Secured Web Services that can talk to WCF and Five Supposedly Scary things in .NET. I have taken liberties with the actual session titles, but that’s the gist of it. There is going to be a lot of amazing content.

At the end of the month, Michele and I get together again, along with Jason Beres, Scott Hanselman and Bill Hatfield to present a full day of talks at Deeper in .NET in Milwaukee. This is a full day user group event put on by the WI.NET Users Group.

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RIP Software Development Magazine

Just Rambling

From Larry O’Brien’s blog:

SD Magazine: R.I.P.

Oh well. The writing had been on the wall, but today it’s official: Software Development magazine, which I founded in 1992, has been absorbed by Dr. Dobb’s Journal and will cease publication. Ironically, SD was born when Dr. Dobb’s absorbed Computer Language after Miller Freeman (now CMP) bought DDJ. Between the two events, that means more than 150,000 subscribers who signed up for Computer Language or Software Development and winded up with DDJ. Just saying.

Larry also has some follow up posts:

The Imminent Death of Developer’s Magazines Commenting on a blog post by Eric Sink
Why DDJ Won’t Change:Commenting on a blog post by Joel Spolsky



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