I just read about the “Made in Express Contest” (via Jacob Cynamon). Summary: write an app in an Express Edition of VS or SQL Server, and you might win $10,000.
Any takers?
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As president of the WI .NET Users Group, I’m really excited about our upcoming conference on April 22, 2006. Deeper in .NET 2006 will be at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee (map).
We have five great speakers lined up for the day-long FREE conference:
- Michele Leroux Bustamante — WCF Top to Bottom
- Scott Hanselman — Anatomy of a Successful ASP.NET Application: Inside DasBlog
- Julia Lerman — ADO.NET 2.0 Integration with SQL Server 2005
- Bill Hatfield — AJAX and Atlas
- Jason Beres — Using WPF to Create Compelling User Interfaces
We’ve also got a number of great sponsors lined up, and a ton of prizes to giveaway to attendees — at the moment we’re somewhere around $15,000 – $20,000 in prizes! (And we hope to have even more by the time April 22 rolls around.)
Like I said, this event is free to attend — how can you beat that? You do need to register in advance to “save your spot”, because last year, we had only standing room. So if you’re anywhere within driving distance of Milwaukee, you should come. For those coming from out of town, I’m trying to work out a special rate at the hotel, and will post more on the UG site when that is worked out. I know we have people coming from all Wisconsin, Chiacgo, and Indianapolis.
Also, the UG is still looking for a few more annual sponsors for 2006, so if you work at a company that might be interested in sponsorship opportunities reaching nearly 2,000 .NET developers (*), architects and decision makers, by all means, please get in touch with us. You can find out more info about our sponsorship programs here.
Most of the information about Deeper in .NET 2006 is available on our site, but if you have any questions, just ask. 🙂 I hope to see you there!!!
* Update: For clarification, our total membership and mailing list is nearly 2,000, and each member will receive a number of e-mails. Actual meeting attendance is limited to venue capacity and will be somewhere between 500 and 600. Sorry for any confusion.
I just got back from Microsoft in Redmond yesterday afternoon. I’ve been on a plane in each of the last four months, taking trips to California, Vegas and now Redmond.
Anyway, I had recently taken a beta version of a certification exam, and I was out there to help them determine which items should remain on the final exam and which should be removed. The whole trip was a lot of fun for me. It was my first time to Redmond for anything, so I was probably a little touristy at times, but I imagine that’s not uncommon, right?
OK, so I’ve tweaked the blog skin a little (added a couple things to the side bar), and I’m getting used to it. I also downloaded this from the CS site. It lets me type code into my posts and it highlights it for me. For example:
[code language=”VB.NET”]’ VB
Dim myString as String = “Hello world”[/code]
[code language=”C#”]// C#
string myString = “Hello world”;[/code]
[code language=”T-SQL”]– SQL
select ‘Hello world'[/code]
[code language=”ASP/ASP.NET”]<%’ ASP.NET %>
<asp:Label id=”Label1″ runat=”server” />[/code]
I don’t post a lot of code really, but maybe now I will… [;)]
I just upgraded to Community Server 2.0. It was pretty smooth.
It’s slick. I haven’t found a skin I like yet, so I’m using the default. Maybe someday I’ll get around to changing that. Bear with me. 😉
 | If you think back, you may remember that I blogged about a being a technical reviewer for an upcoming O’Reilly book. Well the book has just been published, and I got a copy in the mail today. In the O’Reilly tradition, it has an animal on the front cover — a catfish. If anyone buys a copy, I’d be happy to sign it for you. You know, now that I’m famous… and published… sort of… in that “I didn’t really write anything — I just read the book” sort of way. Update: A co-worker pointed out that my name was listed in the credits at the end of the introduction. I didn’t even realize that I had been mentioned in the book. Now you have to buy it. |
According to optionsScalper, I make the web “suck less” with some things I posted earlier this month here and here.
Just doing my job, ma’am. Just doing my job. 😉
Now that VB8 has been out for a few months, and I’m using it as much as I use VB6 (mostly on VB7), I’ve finally found an answer to a problem that has bugged me forever. OK, well, not forever, but for a long time.
Has anyone ever noticed that the scroll wheel on your mouse doesn’t work correctly in VB6? A coworker sent me a link today that tells you how to fix that.
So, in case I’m not the only person to not know that such a fix exists (because I never bothered to search), here you go! Enjoy!
What a great way to end a Friday… 😉
Something that every business should do. Imagine how good it would feel to be a customer for a company who thinks you’re they’re favorite. And from the other side, imagine what it would be like to only work with people who are your favorites?