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I'd just like to send a shout out to Jeff Sandquist for the great PDC blogging shirt, and to John Daus of Microsoft's East Region Developer Evangelism Team for the MSDN “Crew” t-shirt.

Please remember, I’m picking sessions that, in my opinion, warrant some more exposure.  There are lots of other sessions that I really like, but since I’ve seen them discussed on other blogs, I purposely avoided talking about them.  If I don’t mention your favorite session, it doesn’t mean I don’t like it, I’m just trying to spread the love.

I bought the November 2003 issue of Discover magazine (I love the Vital Signs column) and while flipping thru the magazine I came across an article on Weblogs: Emerging Techology - How the Web Edits News.  It prettty much focuses on concept of the “Daily Me” aspects of blogging and news, and thankfully does not mention the “secret society” slant given by some that don't truely understand blogging.  Overall I was really surprised the a notable science magazine dedicated some print to our world.  Now if the scientists of the world can take a page from us techies and use blogging to help them work together, then we will all be bettter off for it.

Alright, I just I’ve been quite for far too long, and I feel like trying to stir up some googlejuice, and this is just the topic to do.

The PDC session highlight for today is a real oddball for the PDC:

The PDC session highlight for today is:

I know that I haven’t been blogging much lately, but it isn’t for a lack of wanting to blog.  I’m trying to keep all my entries on the weblogs.asp.net related to .Net, and I’m also trying to remove the “fluff” entries, and only blog when I think it is of some value.

At the October NJMSDEV meeting (that’s Thursday night 10/2), I’ll be presenting my Fun With Attributes – Extending Enums session.  For those of you that can’t make the meeting in NJ, or those of you that want to be prepared for the meeting, here’s the link to the presentation.  I want to thank my coworker Rich (www.metaverse.cc) and Steve Maine for all their help and inspiration.  Extending enums with attributes is a great technique for creating a bunch of static objects, whether it be data access layer parameters or object representations of simple code tables.
 
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