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I was trying to be really skeptical but it didn’t work. After poking around Windows Live for about 5 minutes this afternoon – I think it’s pretty cool. [Read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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It took embedding XML into SQLServer to get Stephen to go public on his love for it. Perhaps all of those digs at Clemens Vasters’ choice to store dasBlog data in XML were just a ruse. But now Stephen is not only at one with XML, he is spreading the joy. (Hey maybe I should be a lobbyist, that’s pretty good, huh?)
Stephen is coming to Vermont.NET on Monday night, all thanks to INETA to present on XML in VS2005 & SQL Server 2005.
He was also planning to come up for another snowshoing hike (we did Mt. Mansfield last time he was here) but alas, we are expecting rain rain and more rain.
Meeting Date: Monday March 13th
Time: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Location: Vermont Technical College, Williston Campus
More info and details and directions at www.vtdotnet.org
We also have some great raffles this month! We will be raffling off Sax’s CommStudio and Atalasoft’s DotImage.
This is a joint meeting with www.VTSQL.org.
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Some might say that Doug Reilly is making lemonade from lemons, though I think that his health situation is much more sour than a lemon and the work he is doing is much sweeter and more nutritious than lemonade.
Doug is a fellow developer, and ASPInsider and an author who has been battling a really tough illness for a long time. He has an article out about being responsible about dealing with your clients and your commitments when big things happen in your life. It is a valuable read for anyone in consulting.
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Who knows windows development better than Charles Petzold? And and he thinks Windows Forms are definitely going to be around for a long time – even if there are some big gaps in the WPF version.
Charles’ post refers to Tim Sneath’s excellent post on the same topic.
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Maybe just cause I’m a dope and reallllllly stubborn. [Read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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After the long awaited beauiful dump of snow this weekend and then enjoying the great skiing in the woods, it was time to get some use from our weekday season pass at Mad River Glen yesterday. Another glorious blue sky day.
Most of these are from the chair lift as I was too busy skiing to take pictures.
Rich and I went in the afternoon and headed right to the single which would take us up to the tippy top.
This might be the oldest running chairlift in the country. It was christened in 1949 and is a landmark and a treasure of Vermont ski history. It’s the same chair I got stuck in for 2 1/2 hours a few winters ago, but they have done lots of great work on it since then.
We were excited to see some beautiful tracks in the snow below. Granted this photo is of a section of trail that was closed off so yes, it had some nice powder.
The higher you get the better the views are! You have to be willing to swivel around in that little chair though, to see them. First you start seeing awesome views of the Green Mountains behind you but then the White Mountains, further off in NH appear. The view is way better than this photo whenyou get to the top, but I had put my camera away by then.
I took this picture just for Chris Kinsman. The green blob is part of the chair. The rest is a big huge vertical rock with water ice on it. Notice all of the ski tracks going over it. This is why the slogan for Mad River is “ski it if you can”.
This is typical too at Mad River. And don’t think this is all powder. We were surprised to discover that all the new pow had been skiid off over the weekend and the whole place was just icey! We didn’t mind though. We hoped it meant awesome ticket sales for Mad River. They needed it after this dreadful season.
At the very top of the single, a great reward on a clear day – a view of the Adirondacks to the west.
This is something I have always wanted to take a picture of. The top of the chairlift is a winter wonderland after it snows.
A few more. Rich loves skiing in the trees and on this day that’s where all the snow was. I have had my magic moments of just going with the flow in the trees but mostly I just get too scared and just slide stop turn slide stop turn. Oh well. It’ somethng I need to do many times during the ski season to get my confidence back. But this was the first time I had been in the trees in over a year.
Here’s Rich taking off his boots before we headed home. The base lodge at Mad River is old-fashioned, very homey and loved by all.
When I download pictures from my digital camera they are huge. I have to open them up one at a time in PSP and shrink them. The other day, after years of doing this stupid method, Ihad a great idea. I emailed all of the pictures to myself. When outlook asks “do you want to mail them as their original size or shrink them”, I choose the “shrink ’em” option. Then I have an email with all of the attachments of the new small sizes. I don’t even have to mail them. I can just copy them from the attachment input box in the email and paste them into a folder on my computer. Sweet. Stupid to have to do it this way though. I will have to go look on my Vista box to see if there is a nice function already built in to do that.
Update:Etienne Tremblay reminded me of the Microsoft PowerToys page that has the perfect utility – ImageResizer. There are a ton of awesome powertoys.
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