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January 07 2009
I'm still digesting the fact that my friend, Ceil Silver, has just lost her battle with cancer. Ceil passed away, somewhat unexpectedly , on Saturday. Yes, the cancer has been tough on her, but at every turn she projected confidence. She seemed to win each little battle which wooed us all into thinking she… read moreVermont IT Jobs: Five software (& related) jobs at Green Mountain Coffee
January 06 2009
Thanks in advance to Green Mt. Coffee for sponsoring the upcoming January 12th Vermont.NET Meeting! Green Mountain Coffee is located in Waterbury Vermont and consumed all over the world! It's awesome to see so many great software job openings. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters seeks to make the world a better place for… read moreEF Support for Firebird - Beta1
January 06 2009
Jiri Cincura announces Beta1 of the FIredbird ADO.NET Data Provider 2.5.0 which has support for Entity Framework. The release is imminent. Read the announcement and get the download from the Firebird website. read moreJanuary 03 2009
Nearly three years ago, I wrote the following blog post: Reason # 4218 why I don't think I'll ever write a book From Chris Sells' blog: Then Mike read all 1300 pages, making sure that the copy editor didn't change the meaning of anything. With the PDFs in hand, we both read the… read moreSome new INETA NORAM speakers for the New Year
January 02 2009
The INETA NORAM speakers bureau grows again. Who knew, 7 years ago when INETA started with a small list of some of the most well-known speakers in our industry, that the community and the ranks of great presenters would grow so much. Prior to the latest additions, the NORAM speaker bureau already had over… read moreLooking around at the Multi-Touch Technology
January 01 2009
I goofed off for a while today watching videos of things people are doing with Surface, the first public demo of the multi-touch screen developed by Jeff Han (father of CNN's Magic Screen) and more... [A New DevLife Post] read moreMicrosoft - Bridging the Generation Gap
January 01 2009
Thanks to Microsoft (including I.M., PopFly and XNA), my 15 year old nephew and I finally found a common bond over Christmas. Read more... [A New DevLife Post] read moreEF Designer Bug Workaround for 0..1 Associations to Derived Types (Error Code 3034)
December 30 2008
After a lot of head scratching, I was finally able to accidentally duplicate a mapping issue reported to me by a reader of the Rough Cuts version of my book, Programming Entity Framework. Then after a lot more head scratching, I was able to discover the pattern and workaround for this problem, which has… read moreShouldn't the Silverlight ToolKit include VB Code Samples?
December 23 2008
The Silverlight Toolkit folks at Microsoft are prioritizing their "Honey Do" list and one of the items on it is to be sure that more of their examples are in VB, not just C#. Of course, the toolkit should have originally had both C# and VB examples, but that's a different issue. In order… read moreThe iPhone Cometh ... To Vermont
December 22 2008
Vermont and Alaska are the only two states without AT&T service and therefore, no iPhones. That is about to change. Read more here A New DevLife post read moreCommunity Megaphone - To discover or promote MS Technology Community Events
December 21 2008
Are you familiar with Community Megaphone? I ignored it when I was first told about it (sorry about that, Rachel!) because I thought "Uggh, yet another place I have to re-enter my user group meeting info." Boy, was that a short-sighted response. I'm now a fan. Read more... [A New DevLife Post]… read moreFun at CapArea.NET User Group and NOVA Girl Geek Dinners
December 19 2008
On Tuesday I flew down to Washington D.C. to speak at the CapArea.NET User Group. It's such an easy group to get to since it means a 1/2 hour drive to the airport and a 1 hour and 15 minute direct flight. Top it off by being picked up by the Duthie Car… read moreORM Strategies (including EF) at DotNetUmbria User Group
December 16 2008
Marco Poponi will be "the EF guy" at the DotNetUmbria meeting next Friday that covers different ORM options. There will also be an Intro to ORMs, an nHibernate talk and a summary to help attendees compare and contrast ORMs. So if you are near Umbria, Italy, check it out. read moreVTSDA Gets an Office and Gov. Douglas and Sec. Kevin Dorn will be there tomorrow!
December 16 2008
After 4 years without a real home, the Vermont Software Developer Alliance has recently opened an official office! This is big news. The office, which has conference space, is in Colchester, Vermont. Tomorrow's monthly VTSDA meeting will be the first to be held at the new offices and to honor this milestone, Governor… read moreLearn a new language every year?
December 15 2008
I've been writing a lot of C# code lately and its been fun. Why? Because it's new and different. But it's gotten me thinking more about the professed benefits of learning a new language every year. Read more here... [A New DevLife Post] read more
