http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=5552696499

go BID!

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It is sunny out with fresh snow. I promised myslef that if the temp went above 10F I would hop in the car and go over to Mad River to do a few runs after lunch. I have not skiid ONCE this year even though I bought a ski pass, even though we moved to Vermont to ski, even though we bought a house only 7 miles from MRG just so we could go there easily. It's 9 degrees. Too cold. Keep working. Will I ever ski again?

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by way of programmer-jobs@yahoogroups.com (which I must admit I NEVER subscribed myself to, but I will leave myself on it...)

Here is an example (just came through my inbox)

THIS IS A WORK-AT-HOME PROGRAMMING JOB:
Program database driven web app for small entertainment company.  Project will iinvolve any and all technologies that are appropriate with emphasis on SQL, asp (or .net), java, vbscript, html.  Web application will handle 1. searching for live entertainment (bands, DJs, motivational speakers, magicians, etc), 2. booking entertainment, 3. setting up an entertainers press kit file (so it can be searched) and 4. production management of an event.  Some modules are complete while others exist in MS Access and must be converted web apps.            

APPLY ONLINE AT:
http://www.programmingfromhome.com/Job.cfm/202729

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hmmmm....I wonder if my husband reads my blog....

 

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I have been asked about the auction being tax deductible.

Absolutely!

So get your clients and your companies to bid!! I told my clients about the auction and said "hey, can you hire me some help for when I get really stuck on something?" Even an hour of having someone like Kimberly Tripp take a look at their SQL Server setup would be invaluable!!

The PayPal account (acehaid@tides.org) that the winners send their $ to is a U.S. 501c3 non-profit. If you want to donate a lot of $ to them (regardless of your eBay bid or even if you win) you can even send a check or wire money.

More info is on this page www.acehaid.org.

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SO cool. Maybe we'll get a gazillion bids now. Looks like the poster (who is a hero in my book) was a little confused about Aceh Aid at IDEP's mission, but who cares! We got a positive post on slashdot.

Happy happy happy.

 

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Keith Pleas' "Guidance on Patterns & Practices: Security" hits the MSDN site.

Security Digital BlackBelt WebCast Series schedule is online.

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By bidding, of course.

read more from Stephen on how to help.

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I have to find me a Mac to play on because I have heard that the Real products for Mac are awesome. I won't even let Real anywhere near my computers (all Windows machines).

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ahh that again

On the one hand you have Rocky Lhotka's perfectly reasonable "NO", on the other hand ADO.NET  not only encourages you to use and "abuse" webservices by enable the passing of DataSets from one end to the other, but with ADO.NET 2.0 we can pass DataTables too! And we will. Many many many of us will. Many more of us than the tiny percentage of .NET developers who do any interop. At the same time, ADO.NET 2.0 fixes the icchy dataset problem with remoting by making datasets now transmit as BINARY data, like the rest of the remoted objects. (I never had this problem because I have not coded ONE remoted application - ever. “My name is Julie and I'm a web service abuser“.)

Then of course is the whole new twist on this problem: teaching people how to use WSE with .NET clients and services. I do it all the time. I use it this way (because it is an easy way to implement security in the web services that I shouldn't be using anyway) and these are the samples I use when I teach other people how to use WSE. And I'm not alone.

And to confuse us just a little more, here's the latest  on .NET Remoting in .NET 2.0. Just remember: "no, nyet, niente, shake head vigorously."

So here are the messages:

1. Using web services in an end to end .net application is bad
2. Use remoting for end to end .net applications
3. Don't put all your eggs into .NET remoting because, if though it's not dead, in the future, you should be doing everything via services.
4. Here's how to do remoting in our closest future technology.

Maybe this isn't the message that is supposed to be coming down to people like me, but that's what it is sounds like by the time it does reach me. Am I consfused? Is Paris a city?

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Doug Seven put our charity auction into the rotating ads on both the DotNetJunkies and SQLJunkies websites. Very kind. Go bid!!

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Soma announces that we will have new icons so we can build programs that look like the programs we USE! Hip Hip Hooray!!!

many cheers for Microsoft responding to this very loud roar from developers.

I know I was one of bajillions who asked for this.

The icons and bitmaps that are given to us in VS2003 to use in our apps are the same as the ones that have been around for as long as I can remember ... maybe even since FoxPro 2.5?

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feel free to use this button and link to our ebay auction!

Too busy to download and upload to your own blog? Here's the html which will use the image directly from my server. Remember to strip any excess formatting before you paste!

<A href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=5552696499"><IMG src="http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/content/binary/auctionimage.jpg" border=0/></A>

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It seems to be a bad joke on everyone. Snow where it hurts and now snow where it hurts (our economy here in Vermont) not to have it. Uggh.

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Drew Robbins got his bid in at Jan-23-05 06:00:14 PST! That's 14 seconds after it went live. I call that love!

Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499

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Tonight is Robert Scobles Cheesy 40th Birthday party.

Happy belated birthday and have a great time.

The big 4-0 was one my favorite birthdays (so far.... )

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and here is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499

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I have had an old Micron laptop hanging around for years that I can't give away. Nobody wants it. It only has 40MB of RAM and it is not possible to increase it. Therefore you can't put Windows XP on it.

However, today I am upgrading it from Win95 to Win98SE, putting IE6 SP1 and Office XP (extra license) to give to a family that lives up the road from my parents. Their house burned down to the ground on Thursday and they have nothing. Not even their toothbrushes.

My mom told the teenage boy in the family that helps my her and my dad with their dogs about the computer (and that it's old and does not have the latest cool stuff on it) and he is beyond thrilled. It was certainly worth holding on to!!! So just remember that next time you look at that old hardware that you think is too dated to be of value to anyone.

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Big thanks to the guys at thinktecture who found themselves a little late to reply "YES YES OF COURSE!!" to being in the first .NET Celebrity Auction to Aceh Aid at IDEP. They have offered to cover the eBay seller fees that Stephen and I have to pay for this auction. We have tried to contact eBay about removing the fee of 1.5% for any amount our auction recieves abouto $1,000 (that's the total not the 30 individual donations). eBay is very careful about trying to protect buyers from the many many fraudulent "charity auctions" and unfortunately it has made things extremely complex and difficult for Stephen and I in trying to make this thing fly.

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Update: it was cancelled

In case you were wondering about the status of the mini Code Camp this weekend, it is totally on, regardless of the forecast.

Thom Robbins has said that if for some reason they do decide to cancel (sounds highly unlikely) he will post something over here on his weblog.

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