VirtualEarth is interesting but quite undocumented when it comes to developing against it. Luckily, Neil Roodyn (that's Dr. Neil) has had a great head start with Virtual Earth and has created the Virtual Earth developer center “ViaVirtualEarth”. There are already some articles on getting started and a ...[read more]

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Larry Osterman has a pet peeve that I have ranted about in the past: the use of the word "ask" as a noun that has proliferated at Microsoft when people are talking about budgets and more.

There is a really fun discussion going on in the comments of this blog post - up to 42 comments at the moment. So if you like language, you will definitely enjoy reading or even participating in this conversation.

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Avonelle Lovhaug has been waiting for her Lenovo for a long time! And she's not alone. But this is not stopping people from glomming on to the tablet that will finally make the mark for TabletPCs on the end user market. According to this eweek article: “The ThinkPad Tablet has sold so fast since its introduction that Lenovo quickly ran out of stock ... [read more]

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I don't do a lot of work with RegEx, but I had to yesterday and needed a way to ensure I was writing it correctly. That means I finally downloaded and used Roy Osherove's great utility, The Regulator. That surely made my task a LOT easier! Thanks Roy.

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Yep - about 10 miles from our house, but 3 miles from where we were having dinner since our power was out. Apparently it didn't touch down. Helluva storm last night. 1" hail reported in Bristol (where we had dinner). Creeks were RAGING. Hurricane force winds (not at our house - but we are used to 60+ mph up here and my neighbors at the top of the road have measured 80).

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Methods and Masters: The VB Upgrade Tour   Are you still using VB 6? If you are then this is something that you will want to attend.  Visual Basic 6.0 developers have had a great tool – but it’s time to learn how to use those Visual Basic skills with the next generation of products.  Visual Basic .NET/2005 can help to make you more productive at the development that you do every day. Join Brian Randell for an evening session on getting those skills up to .NET. Register Here  Wednesday, October 05, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Microsoft Waltham Office  Room: MPR A&B 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor Waltham, Massachusetts

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I think this is big in the world of SQL! Bob Beauchemin has joined Kimberly Tripp at SQL Skills!

Read more here

Bob has authored some of the most detailed indepth technical content on SQL for developers that I have been able to digest. In other words, he knows his stuff and he knows how to communicate it to us poor folks who really need it!

High five, Kimberly!

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Who needs a senate anyway?

(as Mike G points out, GWB is following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton and JFK!)

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http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/

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Deborah Kurata, Molly Holtzschlag, and Dori Smith.

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I have known Deborah for a bunch of years and yes yes yes, she is definitely an inspiration! She was one of the first women that I recall in the VB field that stood right up and out - writing books, speaking at conferences - when there were just not any women doing it (in VB). I came from the FoxPro world where chicks ruled - we had Tamar Granor, Pat Adams and Ceil Silver all incredibly visible and high level - writing books, editing journals, speaking at devcons and user groups. Great role models for a girl in her 20's.

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http://feeds.indonesianews.net/?rid=6b0d5bb186c32960&cat=f9295dc05093c851&f=1

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Well, the big problem with a conference filled with bloggers is that EVERYONE is blogging about it and I have NO clue where to start finding out how the day went and what came out of it without pouring through hundreds of blogs. Can you say information overload?

When I find a good thread to begin on, I will post it here, in the mean time: you can start here

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One of my favorite local arists in Vermont is dug nap. Dug is very clever, very witty, very talented and sometimes very naughty. Luckily for me, he makes greeting cards of lots of his artwork so I can buy and share his art very easily. The best I can do for the rest of you is at least to point you to his website so you can cruise around. A new card that I saw yesterday for the first time has one of of his always right-on observations : "Women are from Paris, Men are from Jersey City". That makes me laugh. Isn't it true? We women like to think of ourselves as connoisseurs, bastions of good taste and sophistication. I feel like that sometimes. I want to watch foreign art films and Rich likes shoot'em up bang 'em up movies. I want to make some fancy schmancy recipe that takes weeks to find the ingredients and days to prepare the meal and Rich is happy with this.

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Hilton Locke, a member of the Tablet team at Microsoft, is listing issues (and solutions) with installing and running the beta on a Tablet.

• Cautions
• Device Driver problems
• Application Compatibility

There will probably be more, so check back for new posts on his blog.

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Scott & Omar and their merry little elves have been working hard and just released v1.8 of dasBlog that is filled with lots more spam protection and many other improvements.

Scott lists the details and how to get the update here...

Thanks guys!

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When I first saw the Turnkey Security Scenarios in WSE3, I was a bit skeptical as I thought it was more wizards. I hate wizards. I have now seen the light, thanks to Sidd Shenoy's awesome WSE 3.0 Policy presentation that is online. Policy is just so completely different in WSE3 than [read more...]

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This must be the longest post Dave Noderer has ever written in his blog. He obviously got very fired up about the Atlanta Geek dinner last weekend. See why!

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Brian is a .Net user group leader from the land of the #2 cheddar cheese in the world and has been very involved with INETA since the beginning of INETA time.

Congratulations Brian!

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I received a box filled with books from Addison-Wesley today. The next meeting of Vermont.NET will be an ADO.NET blowout with Mike Soulia from Kiss the Cook & Apple Mountain doing the .NET Newbie session on ADO.NET and then I will be doing one of my favorite new talks: What's new in ADO.NET 2.0. One of the books I have multiple copies of for the meeting is the beta2 version of the ADO.NET 2.0 & System.XML 2.0 book by my pals Alex Homer, Dave Sussman and Mark Fussell (who is now the program manager on the WSE team).

Because they are in Boston, A-W was also able to pull through on a fast box of books for the first meeting of CNY .Net Developers which is on Wednesday.

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Thanks to DevExpress for coming up with some great swag for the first meeting of Central New York Developers.NET.

Andy Beaulieu will be raffling off two of DevExpress's extremely popular VS.NET add-ins, CodeRush and the language neutral Refactor!Pro for VS2005. Don't forget, you can get Refactor! for VB2005 for free.

Did you know that CodeRush works with VS2002, VS2003 and VS2005 Beta2? Those guys are way too slick!

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