The Imagine Cup is a worldwide, tiered competition that Microsft hosts for the academic community. Over the course of the nine month competition, teams compete regionally, then by country and then the winners for each country go the the worldwide Finals. There are a number of  [read more...]

[A DevLife post]

I'm really excited about this new group that Andy Beaulieu is starting in Syracuse, New York (www.cnydevelopers.net). That's where I grew up (Cazenovia) and my dad grew up in Syracuse too, so I have a lot of ties there.

Andy has been working hard to build up interest and I'm sure this first meeting on August 3rd will be great. There will be a talk by Andy (who has been programming for over 10 years) and by the MSDN Developer Community Champion for NY State, Rob Jackson.

I'm looking forward to visiting the group sometime this fall and presenting (and visiting my parents!).

If you know any .NET developers in the Syracuse, NY area, point them to this new group!

Champlain College (Burlington, Vermont) has several adjunct teaching positions open for fall semester. Two online and two in person.

Online

• Advanced Java
• Data Structures and Algorithms

In Person

• Introduction to Computer Theory (2 night sections available)

Contact:
Gary Savard
IEEE-CSDP, MCSE/MCSD, OCP
Program Director, Software Engineering
Champlain College
163 So Willard St, Burlington, VT 05401
savard@champlain.edu
(802) 865-6467

Announcing - Code Camp 4: Developers Gone Wild

September 24/25, 2005

Register Today

September 24 – 8:30 AM – 9PM

September 25 – 8:30 AM – 4PM

Microsoft Waltham
201 Jones Rd.

Waltham, Ma.

Call for Speakers

I miss "whidbey" but I still use that fond old nickname for Visual Studio 2005.

I really like "avalon" [Windows Presentation Foundation]

And where will we be without "indigo"? [Windows Communication Foundation]

After those light, airy, winsome names, these new ones are like sitting in a dark cigar smoke filled room with big leather chairs and a lot of fat old men chuckling about the stock market.

Boo hiss.

I first heard about blogging listening to Chris Lydon a bunch of years ago. In fact, here is a link to the very show, from May of 2000! I was definitely fascinated by that show and actually signed up for a blog on blogger.com that day (which I only ever put two posts in as I recall). It was a few years later that Scott Watermasysk asked me if I wanted to blog about INETA on his newish blog site (now weblogs.asp.net) to which I replied "ummm, nah, but thanks for asking". A few months after that it was I who emailed Scott asking if it was too late to take him up on his offer but that I'd like to blog about other things in addition to INETA. No problem, says he...

So, anyway, Chris Lydon....yes. I heard a promo on VPR today (which I only really listen to in the car - that is when Rich isn't in the car - which is not frequent these days. I can't listen to people talking when I'm trying to work, so I don't hear it at home) for a newish show that Chris Lydon is doing called Open Source and the promo said "blogs, podcasts, etc"! That definitely caught my ear.

Of course, I realize that I've just missed the show as it is 8:15! But it looks interesting:

Open Source is a lively, hour-long on-air conversation designed to capture "the sound of the Web," with the popular Christopher Lydon engaging callers, e-mailers and bloggers from around the world in a range of fascinating topics. It is the first radio program to embrace bloggers, Web enthusiasts and the Internet transformation of media.

Brand new!

MSDN ASP.NET Ugrade Center

Lessons Learned White Paper

I recently discovered something by accident after three years of programming in .NET. I am testing an ASP.NET site (yep - that custom SharePoint site that is finally about to go live) and needed to check the affects on users with different priveleges [read more]

[A DevLife Post]

oh duh! (thanks Bliz)

I think sharepoint has just worn my poor old brain out today!

I ran into the worst of all Sharepoint problems - impersonation and permissions.

Example:

When using the regular WSS UI, login as John Doe Contributor. John Doe can check in and check out files, etc. Looking at SQL Profiler, you can see all of this is being done as the apppool account (NT Authority/Network Services) which has all of the necessary permissions.

Cut to a custom application which uses Windows Authentication and impersonation. Even in the same site, John Doe Contributor no longer has the right access permissions. Logging in with an admin account, all works fine.

I have been at this since yesterday. Now I am dangerously close to my deployment date (and of course a few new wrenches - including a biggie - have been thrown into my week). I have been reading blogs and articles galore and have gone down many paths.

Pros & Cons:

Web Services: This will most likely get me my Network Services account access. They are easy to write, but a little bit of a PIA to implement for Sharepoint.

Stored Procedures: most were okay to work with but checking in a file is a bear!

Mucking with Impersonation: dll hell, anyone?

c'mon Ari! Vermont is beautiful in September!!!

whaaaaaa

Congrats to Dr. Neil for launching ViaVirtualEarth, which will tap into the power of MSN's Virtual Earth.

There was a sneak peak of virtualearth.msn.com this weekend, but it's not quite ready yet. Hopefully tomorrow. Chandu Thota, on the Virtual Earth team, explains.

"‘ctrl-alt-del’ will now be known as : ‘hasta la vista’"

From Inside Microsoft (by way of Alex Barnett)

It looks like Sam is getting to do something that we rarely get to do when we travel on business - playing tourist. He's gone from one extreme to another.

http://feeds.indonesianews.net/?rid=8bd09717ce894532&cat=f9295dc05093c851

This is a result of a reported 7.3 earthquake in the Nicobar Islands that was causing worry of potential Tsunamis in Indonesia. (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=972471)

(I wrote this on Saturday and held off on posting this. Finally someone blogged about Egypt! Why are we so damned used to killings in the Middle East/Africa region?)

London 7/7: 4 bombs, 50+ killed, 700+ injured  The western world goes crazy

Egypt 7/22: 3 bombs, 80+ killed, 200+ injured: all quiet on the western front (so far). It's already fallen off of the CNN headline news in favor of more info about the London bombers - well actually about the completely unconnected person that the police killed.

Microsoft Press, gimme a search, please????

I am trying to find a link to a book, and have to drill into subject area and make guesses as to where it would be. I have already drilled in to about 5 levels and still don't konw if I"m on the right path to find the book.

Why not do a search at least by author and book title in addition to the "categorical drill down"?

I give up. I'm going to just link to it on Amazon.