Contents tagged with Current Events
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Fort Worth .NET User Group
I'll be speaking next week (Tuesday the 18th, to be precise) at the Fort Worth .NET User Group, run by fellow blogger (though he's been slacking since summer), Stephen Swienton. I'm following on the heels of Rob Howard's kick-off of the ASP.NET RoadShow, which is a tough act to follow, but I'll let the technology do the talking, with an overview of some of the new features coming in ASP.NET "Whidbey".
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PDC Buzz
Welcome to anyone who's visiting from the PDC Buzz page. I have to say that any day you can get listed on the same page with folks like Chris Sells and Brad Abrams is a very good day, indeed!
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OT: Power back...finally
I should've known better than to taunt Mother Nature. After we got our power back from Isabel (after 30 hours), I changed my MSN IM handle to include “(power's back...take THAT, Isabel!)”. Apparently, Mother Nature takes these things rather personally, because our power went out again Monday morning at around 5am. Unfortunately, this time around, it was us and about 5 or 6 other neighbors who were out, while the rest of the neighborhood had power.
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Look before you leap
Ole Eichhorn sings the praises of Vonage, a service that allows you to use your internet connection for telephone service, using a standard telephone. According to Ole, it's cheap ($60, one-time fee), and will be big.
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Miscellany
Been a while since I posted, so I'll catch up on a number of items:
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Blaster clarification...
In posting my opinions on the blaster worm, and on what might be done to prevent future occurrences, I seem to have opened myself up to some blasting of my own:
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Blasted Blaster
I'm puzzled...practically at a loss for words. The cause? The fact that yet again, Microsoft finds and patches a vulnerability before an exploit is widely available, and still, hundreds of thousands of computers are infected. This is inexcusable.
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Doug's got it right...your career is YOUR responsibility
There has been a lot of talk on a lot of the blogs over going to PDC, the cost of PDC, etc. There is an argument made that the cost of an event like PDC is prohibitive, preventing folks working at smaller employers, or even the self employed from attending. This sort of begs a question: Who is responsible for your career?
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Capital Area .NET User Group
Next week, on June 24th, I will be speaking at the Capital Area .NET User Group meeting in Vienna, VA. The topic will be "Building a Custom ASP.NET Login Control".
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Thanks, TriNUG!
I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all the folks from the Triangle .NET User Group who showed up for my presentation on creating a custom Login server control last night. I had a great time, and the questions from the group were very good as well. I bumped into fellow MVP Cindy Weingarten, who I'd known of through MVP forums and such, but had not yet met, and met several other members of the group as well. Thank you all for making me feel so welcome! Also, thanks to INETA for arranging for me to speak at the UG meeting. If you run, or are a member of a .NET user group, and you aren't an INETA member, you should join now! They have tons of resources for user groups, including arranging for speakers such as myself to speak at your meetings. Best of all, INETA membership is free! And we all like free. ;-)