In addition to the free ASP.NET online learning, there is  VS2005 E-Learning (free for four months) and SQL Server 2005 e-Learning, also free for 4 months.

The launch page for all of this stuff is at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/learning/

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I Win! I Win! I am smarter than the computer HAHAHAHA! Don’t you know that feeling? When you figure out how to do something that seemed like it couldn’t be done? I’m doing the little I WIN I WIN dance right now, having figured out how to display Sharepoint workspaces hierarchically on a web page…[read more]

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William Tay, aka Softwaremaker, has written a great post on the academic debates over technology and the effects these debates can have on the programmers who write software for a living and need … [read more]

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ahh – awesome. time to catch up on all the sessions I missed!! (Well maybe not at the moment, but nice to know they are there when I have the cycles.)

The TechEd US Sessions are now online on the TechEd attendee site. (Requires attended logins). (Thanks for the pointer, Varad.) If you were not an attendee, the DVD is only $195. That’s incredibly cheap. It looks like it’s the same price for attendees and non-attendees. Also there are 12 sessions online as webcasts for any and all to see. You can get at this stuff from the TechEd US home page.

If you are going through withdrawal, TechEd Europe is just starting and there are lots of folks blogging about it! Not sure if TechedBloggers.Net is going to pick it up (nothing there yet) but the only group blog I can find is at http://teched.developers.ie/.

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Quite often, when coding, I’ll have to do something in .NET that I haven’t done in two or three years. For example, today I have to write out an xml file from a DataSet that contains two DataTables that are related to … [read more]

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You *know* I’m focused on something when I’m not blogging a lot. Though I’m not making any great new discoveries that would be revelations – just learning stuff that lots of people know.

I spent most of yesterday struggling with Sharepoint and getting frustrated with the limitations of the WSS U.I. even with a lot of customization.

I hit up the three sharepoint gurus that I know (Dave Burke, Eli Robillard and Amanda Murphy) who basically all encouraged me in believing that I could just write my own front end with sharepoint driving the backend.

Dave is the best for this because he hates Sharepoint but has written a lot of major stuff with it. That, to me, is an advantage, because he has found his way around it pretty darn well. He gave me lots of pointers. I have a lot to learn in a short period of time. We’ll see how it goes. 🙂

There are a lot of great sharepoint resources out there, but I’m really lucky to have a few I can lean on when I have spent too much time researching or trying to figure out one little thing.

At least Dave has been blogging up a storm, so I’m happy someone’s keeping the geek blog level up high in Vermont!

I definitely will have to write about the problems I have had (still unsolved, but found a workaround) with installing WSS on my webserver!

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http://www.unix-girl.com/blog/archives/2005/06/the_good_the_ba.html

She should have come to TechEd and attended the Women in I.T. luncheon. There are more and more women attending at every conference I go to. Even the ladies room isn’t always empty!

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I did one of my favorite sessions yesterday, the one with the evolving name. Yesterday I thought maybe it’s best called “Security Basics for WSE, Indigo and Beyond”. I love this talk and have done it a number of times and feel it is my calling. There is NO code in the talk at all. I explain with my own words and from my own (hard earned) understanding, security tools and methods such as credentials, keys, digital certificates, hashing, encryption and digital signing. The purpose of doing this talk is to explain this stuff to people like me because it is an important foundation for working with security but is generally glazed over with the assumption that everyone already understands it. The payload on this talk is when attendees then go to other sessions, such as Christoph Schittko’s WSE3 talk this morning, Ted Neward’s [rockin’ – and I will write about this later] keynote on Indigo last night and further sessions on Indigo today by Ted and Steve Swartz (Indigo Architect at Microsoft). I got to gloat for a moment this morning while my average scores are still 10 (only three people did evals so far and they happened to be ones that loved the session – as more people do evals, of course, this can’t possibly stick). Today I am doing a brand new talk and though it’s a topic I have been very keen on for a while, Visual Debugger and other customized debugging features in VS2005, I can’t expect to hit it with all 10’s the first time out the gate.

Frank Arrigo noticed that fellow ASPInsider, Paul Glavich, has joined the very impressive collection of developer/consultants in the Australian Readify. I went over to check out their page and thanks to the MSDN Online feed, my Doodling on the Web article is featured on the top of their homepage. Hey, does that win me a free trip to Australia? Charles???

I just received an email from my awesome webhost, Alentus, saying that they had to move my website to a new server. Although not even in the top 10 of bandwidth there, they said my site was contributing to the heavy load at about 30GB a month! Oh my.

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