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Just noticed this new Special Events and Offers page over on the PDC site, and the Architecture Symposium really caught my eye.  Here’s a blurb from the page:

I’ve been checking out the new .Text referrer list for my posts, and noticed that a lot of them have the International Atomic Energy Agency website (www.iaea.org) listed as a referrer.  Since their site has nothing to do with .Net, and has no links to any .Net blog on it, I doubt that this is legit.  All of the posts that have this site listed in the referral section have a referral date of 8/28/2003.  Sounds like it is either test data from ScottW (doubtful) or some hacker is spoofing their url in their http headers.  Has any of the other ASP.Net webloggers noticed the same thing?

In the sprit of Jeff Foxworth’s “You might be a redneck if …” jokes –

For the first time ever, the New Jersey Microsoft Developer’s Group and the North New Jersey .Net User Group are holding a joint meeting.  It will start at 5:30PM and will be held at Microsoft’s Berkeley Heights location. 

If you need to create a temporary file, and don’t want to have to create your own name algorithm, System.IO’s Path.GetTemplFileName static method is the way to go.  Just make sure that you delete it after you are done with it (one of my pet peeves).

MSDN TV that is, and they got my good side, the back of my head.  The clip is Don Box's presentation on SOA at XmlDevCon.  You can’t miss me, shoulder length black hair with the black shirt, right in the beginning of the clip.  My wife is on the right of me, at the end of the aisle, and Steve Maine is sitting in front of me.  Don Smith is in the front row on the right side (the bleached crewcut).  Rory is in there too, on the left side.

I recently read the new article by Paul Sheriff in the new Visual Studio Magazine Special Edition issue – “Architect Your Enterprise”, and I consider it a must read for any .Net architect, and especially anyone that is trying to get their company (or their area) to implement a standard architecture.

I’ve been concentrating so much time on learning new technologies over the last couple years that I’ve been remiss in reading my non-computer books. So to help get me back in the swing of things, I decided to hit my personal library and pull out some of my favorites from just before I stopped. I got 2 science and 2 business books that I recommend highly.