We are lucky to have INETA Speaker Paul Litwin coming from Seattle to present on the ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls (Tips & Tricks) on Monday night!

In addition to INETA flying Paul here, they pay for the pizza & soda at the meeting, which is always appreciated!

AND, that’s not all folks! 🙂  INETA sent out their SWAG mailing earlier ths summer and I’m still pulling treats out of it. This month I will be raffling off

• a license to FarPoint Spread for Web (ASP.NET Spreadsheet) val $899
• two licenses to Genome Express (Object Relational Mapping for .NET) val $399 each

If you plan on attending, go to the site and rsvp (this way we know how much pizza and soda to bring).

There are lots of new discounts on the member page of the website.

Meeting details and directions at www.vtdotnet.org.

I was just chatting with my neighbor who saw the fireworks in Burlington last night and was astonished at how great they were and then happened to see Marc Chadwick’s post in my aggregator to get the visual’s, too.

Montpelier Meeting at Bear Code

Andrew will present using the Java programming language and Josh Sled will present using the Python programming language. Both presentations will focus on their application to the unix environment.

Location

Bear Code

85 Granite Shed Lane, Unit 1

Montpelier, Vermont 05602

More info and directions

The next VT Rails meeting is on Tuesday July 11th.

More information at www.vtrails.org

I grew up under the influence of a local weekly alternative newspaper, The Syracuse New Times. When I lived in New York City it was, of course, The Village Voice. In Vermont, it’s Seven Days. I always look for these papers when I travel as it gives me a good perspective of the city I’m visiting. In St. Johns Newfoundland this weekend, it was pretty easy to identify the Current as their alternative weekly. I was tickled to find an article on Alison Bechdel (who has become quite the blogger) and her recently published book. Though I don’t know her, Alison lives nearby in Bolton, Vermont and has erupted from her underground celebrity in the gay community to being highlighted in People, Entertainment Weekly and other mainstream publications. So to be far away and see the celebration continue was really fun.

This is for fellow vermont bloggers. Seven Day’s is once again adding Vermont blogs to it’s survey this year. For a thorough list, check Cathy Resmer’s blogroll. Frankly, Cathy’s blog will probably get my vote!

I’m quite sure that technical blogs have a very narrow audience in Vermont.

It rained all of May and most of June in Vermont. It has been raining and raining while we have been gone. I just saw an article in the Burlington Free Press that the USDA has declared the natural distasters in every county of Vermont. It has created a nightmare for the farmers who lost most of their early crops and now are having a hard time getting a chance to catch up with the growing season.

Yes you read that right and no I will not be participating. 😉

Sergei Serdyuk writes about last night’s first Vermont Ruby User Group meeting in Burlington.