Hosting two BOF’sat TechEd, here’s the schedule

Just Rambling

Here are the ones that I am hosting with time and location.

You can find all of the BOFs by filtering on “session type” on the session breakout page. Dave Noderer also made a comprehensive list on his blog.

BOF016  Women Who Code
Host(s): Julie Lerman
Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather
Day/Time: Tuesday, June 7 7:45 PM – 8:45 PM Room: Track Cabana 10
This will be the third Women Who Code BOF. It is not a bitch & stitch session, but just an opportunity to gather with some women that you have a lot in common with and talk about some of the things that make being in a mostly male industry work for us. Maybe you find it a challenge. Perhaps you thrive on being special. You may even think that it’s not an issue. Either way, it would be interesting to hear your perspective!
 
BOF031  Life on the Bleeding Edge
Host(s): Julie Lerman
Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather
Day/Time: Wednesday, June 8 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Room: Track Cabana 01A
Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, Avalon, Longhorn, EEEK! How the heck do we learn all this stuff when we can’t even keep on top of all of the current technology? Come to this BOF and we can talk about how we decide how far ahead we should be looking, how we pick and choose what we want to learn and how we find the time and energy to do it.

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Beta2 in the Box!

dotNET

The INETA Spring Thaw mailing arrived today. In it, along with some great swag, was enough sets of VSTS 2005 Beta2 installs for me to distribute to most of my user group! I’m sure that some people have already downloaded from MSDN or ordered from the www.GetTheBetas.com website, but this will get everyone covered now. Of course, I spent 20+ hours downloading cause I couldn’t wait. I already changed the website for our next meeting to let them know. Thanks INETA!!

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Julie Lerman’s DevLife – a new sub-blog on DevSource

Just Rambling

I am really excited to announce that I am going to be writing some of my blog posts for the DevSource website, which is a Ziff-Davis online publication! Editor, Esther Schindler has done a wonderful job in creating this technical resource targeted to .NET Developers. There are lots of great articles (including the fun .NET Rock Star series :-)), contests where they give away cool stuff like Acer Ferrari laptops or Dell flat panel monitors and forums. When I post a blog over there, I will make note of it over here. The blog should be up any day now.

The purpose of this blog is to give a developer’s perspective to things – some of the pain of being a developer, my thoughts on what’s going on in the community, my take on some buzz, etc.

I even had a new picture taken for it. Big huge thanks to Wintellect‘s Mark Kovalcson, a serious photographer on the side, who brought his big camera and a light to the MS Reston office during Devscovery to snap a few photos. My buddy Sara Faatz even let me borrow some makeup, but it’s laughably light and you probably can’t tell I actually did that. Yes, I put make-up on folks, just for you!!!

As soon as it’s live, I will let you know. I’m looking forward to posting some TechEd blogs there as well.

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Arghh DHL/Airborne

Purely Personal

Rather than drive up my nice, short, paved driveway to drop off some small envelope-sized packages, the DHL guy sticks one of their honker envelopes to the side of my painted mailbox. My green mailbox. The green is paint. Now I have a foot long 1/2 inch high stripe from trying to peel the darned thing off.

Hello? Duh!!!! Yes I called them. I think I need to bill them for all of my wasted time…

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Paddling on Dead Creek

Vermont

Dead Creek is a very special place in Vermont and not far from where I live. It’s hardly dead! It is a wildlife refuge and one of the locations of the Bald Eagle restoration project. Rich and I took the canoe there yesterday and had a lazy beautiful paddle up the creek. It is wide open, with views of the Adirondacks along the west. Lots of birds and yes, we even did see a bald eagle. I have wanted to go there for a long time and know that we will definitely go back. The temperature of the water in Lake CHamplain is still under 50 degrees. We don’t have wet or drysuits so we can’t go out on the lake yet. That water temp will literally kill you in a very short time if you don’t have the proper protection.

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Male Bonding blogging

Blogging

Sometimes when I read blogs (and I’m talking about those from the .NET community) I think that the male bloggers (you know, that 99% of the .NET bloggers) are definitely writing for guys, when in the context of a technical post, they make some joke about their sexual prowress or the hottie quality of a particular woman. I don’t really think a post like that was written for me. I dunno – maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think I’m ultra sensitive. Even if I am highly unlikely to ever be the subject of “who’s the hottest…” 🙂

But it is a bit of a turnoff for me to be lured into a post like that and then suddenly be in the middle of some male bonding ritual. Not a big problem, mind you, because I *am* in the company of men, and I know they are really just being silly more than anything…



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Debugger Visualizer Changes in Beta2

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Some of the syntax for writing debugger visualizers has changed again with the recent Beta 2 of VS2005. They are minor, but as always, notable.

1) The VisualizerUIType is gone because all Visualizers are Modal.

Before
[assembly: DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(DebuggerVisualizers.DataTableDebugger),VisualizerUIType.Modal, Target = typeof(System.Data.DataTable), Description = “JL DataTable”)]

Beta2
[assembly: DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(DebuggerVisualizers.DataTableDebugger),Target = typeof(System.Data.DataTable), Description = “JL DataTable”)]

2) Rather than implementing the System.Diagnostics.IDebugVisualizer interface, you now will implement the Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DialogDebuggerVisualizer class 

Before
public class DataTableDebugger : IDebugVisualizer

Beta2
public class DataTableDebugger : DialogDebuggerVisualizer

The signature of the show method has changed as well. It now uses interfaces from the Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers namespace and no longer requires a uiType, since that is a given.

Before
public void Show(IServiceProvider windowService, IVisualizerObjectProvider objectProvider, VisualizerUIType uiType)

Beta2
public void Show(IDialogVisualizerService windowService, IVisualizerObjectProvider objectProvider)

Note that in addition to using the System.Diagnostics namespace (which gives us the DebuggerVisualizer class referenced in the assembly attribute, I am also using the Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers namespace as well.

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