The Vermont Software Developer Alliance had a fantastic meeting yesterday with 3 bank presidents and a partner from a Venture Capital fund as panelists in a discussion of “Positioning your company to get financing and capital investment”. The room was packed with software business owners. While it was still somewhat fresh, I wrote down some of what I learned over here….
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I see that DevReach has two new sponsors, CoDe Magazine and MSDN Magazine. This is great news. And even greater, I have learned that Malek Kemmou, who I have not seen since he made the transition from Regional Director (which enabled him to travel to many conferences in the U.S.) to a Microsoft employee (Techology Architect in SOA and Business Process for Microsoft MEA), a job which does not allow us to see him over here any more. Boo hoo. So I’m very happy to hear he will be in Sofia as it has been tooooo long.
This is going to be a fantastic conference. I’m truly looking forward to it and then galavanting around Bulgaria with my friends in Tourista mode.
One of my prepration tools is here.
A Save the Internet Rally took place in Montpelier yesterday and has the support of our Senator Jim Jeffords. Scroll down to Vermont’s Jeffords Gets Behind Net Freedom for a link to a YouTube video starring my pal, Joe Golden, of Green Mountain Linux.
Another page in the “hey, you can’t know everything!” book…. [read more…]
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…prepare an old computer for recycling? This should not have taken me the hours that I spent on this task tonight! [ read more…]
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More thoughts about where the line is between what we expect from our tools and when we are willing to roll up our sleeve and muck around in the APIs ourselves…. [read more here…]
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I might be the only person onthe planet who didn’t know you could use environment variables in Explorer to quickly get to key folders. Here’s my public confession…
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My latest rant (:-)) is in the new issue of CoDe Magazine (Sept/Oct issue) where I bitch and moan about how hard it is to find someone to do user group talks on current technology. It’s in print now, but not quite yet online, I think.
There are a bunch of great ASP.NET 2.0 articles in this issue in addition to the rest of the usual excellent content!
Jason Gaylord interviewed me last week for the ASPNetPodcast website after I spoke at the DotNetValley user group that he leads. I was impressed with the questions he asked me as it was clear he had done some research. But I think I still surprised him a little with a few of my answers! 🙂
Here’s the list of recent shows. Mine is #59.
The spammers are getting even more creative! [Read more…]
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