There, I said it. With permission.

I am SOOOOOOOOOO excited. I have never been to Africa before and plan to definitely get some exploring since we will be right next to Pilanesberg National Park.

There is ONE more person who will be making this announcement and flying together with me from JFK to Johannesburg. I will wait for that person to blog, rather than spoiling the fun for him or her. Then I will link back. That didn’t take long. It’s Kate Gregory (oh big shock, right?). Kate and I are good friends so this will make it an extra special trip. And we are even looking forward to the 10 hour layover in Frankfurt. We will definitely go into Frankfurt and have a look around.

Oh yeah – my talks!

What’s New in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0
Introducing Indigo
Integrated Innovation: Using ADO.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005

I am very excited that it is now about 98% certain, but not official yet, that I will be speaking at [this space intentionally left blank]. But I can’t blog about it yet – not until it is 100% official. Uggh.

Stay tuned! 🙂

www.acehaid.org

I have posted the powerpoint for the C# for VB Programmers session that I gave at Visual Studio Connections earlier this week. They are located on this page: www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx.

The disclaimer I gave at the start of this talk is that I am a VB programmer mostly, and not a C# programmer. The presentation is to help VB programmers with some of the very common mistakes that we make when working in C#. I am in no way a C# expert. In fact, one person who attended this talk, while marking that my “knowledge of the topic” was not “excellent” on the eval, did comment that my lack of expertise in C# actually made the presentation more useful. Spot on, baby! 🙂