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Visual Studio Debugger Team Chat Thursday 24th
If you are interested in debugging, this should be a great chat – with the debugger team…
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MP3 or IPOD?
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Subcontracting other developers: 1099’s
I didn’t realize I had to do a 1099-Misc for someone I subbed last year, but it isn’t as hard as I thought.
You have to have real paper forms from the IRS (or your accountant, or the business supply store) because they are red. These are the ones you send to the IRS. The black copies go to the Vendor.
Quickbooks can print them out if you have it set up properly. I had to mark this vendor as a 1099 vendor and then in Preferences/Tax I had to associate the “Nonemployee compensation” box with the account I used to pay the vendor from – in my case “Subcontract: Programming”.
You also need the vendors tax-id. That could be a SS# or an EIN. If you want to be official, you can have them fill out a W-9 that you can download from the www.irs.gov website and give that to you.
Don’t forget that you need a red 1096 as well. It is basically the “cover sheet” for the 1099’s that you submit to the IRS.
Remember – I am not an accountant, just another business owner. This is only basic heads up info, but check with your accountant first!!
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Justified
If you have been following the saga of Rob Howard trying to get to Vermont for our 6pm meeting where he was our INETA speaker… Rob was stuck in Chicago waiting for a flight that kept being delayed and delayed. We finally decided he should turn around and go back to Dallas. I think we made the right call!
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“click click policies”
I realize that I have started referring to the high level policy files you create by clicking on the check boxes in WSE2 Config Settings Tool as “click click policies”. I think I’m going to coin that phrase for myself!
Good analysis of state of WSE2
Jerry Dennany sums up his experience with working with WSE2 for a while.
I have to agree with much of what he is saying which is why I have been working hard to try to digest as much as I can and spit it out for other developers to save them some of the pain of learning how to leverage WSE2 beyond just clicking a few checkmarks in the config tool.
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VERMONT.NET – CANCELLED
Boo hoo
Rob Howard’s flight from Chicago was delayed again so as there was no point in him arriving very late and then flying out tomorrow morning, I sent him home to Texas and 85 degree weather.
After a quick concensus of those who rsvp’d, many people said they weren’t going to come now (no star, icchy weather, and half of Vermont has some bug anyway – but they *were* going to come if Rob had made it…) so we have cancelled the Vermont.NET meeting.
Rob and I are both very sorry.
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VTdotNET Update: Meeting at 6, Rob at 7
Based on the current United schedule, we will start the meeting at 6pm and Rob should arrive at about 7pm with Roman Rehak.
The first hour of the meeting will have the usual “what’s going on” and then I will facilitate a free for all .NET Q&A until Rob arrives.
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VTdotNET Update – I don’t believe the new 3:30 departure
(responding to some emails and phone calls) really – here’s why
flight 7960 is en route. It left Burlington one hour late and will arrive in Chicago only 25 minutes late.
It is the same plane, it arrives at gate E2 and Rob’s flight departs from E2.
I think they said 3:30 because they did not know when the Burlington flight was leaving (there were computer problems).
Hang in there. Let’s give it some more time to shake out.
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