Rather than focusing on my talks and demos for Code Camp IV: Developer's Gone Wild, I find I am spending all of my time getting decks and demos from various machines and vpcs all onto one computer. I am really happy that now I will have one computer to use for all of my demos - until it's time to start showing Vista (when I can get the video drivers to work with a projector that is).

I still haven't figured out how I managed to have four sessions at Code Camp.

Well, soon I'll have everything in one place and can get to the real task at hand...

I'll be the guy carrying the Accoridan case

not quite what Microsoft has in mind when they say "mobile pc" - but it works for me (so long as I don't have to carry it for him!)

I am terrified of flying and I do waaaay too much of it

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/22/airliner.emergency.ap/index.html

but now walking is scary

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/22/pedestrians.struck.ap/index.html

National Gardening Association

Burton Snowboards

Burlington location

Infrastructure Manager

IS User Support Analyst

Proejct Manager - Web

Bluehouse Group in Richmond, Vermont

We're looking for an experienced Web professional to join our team. Someone who can design and construct Web pages, both visually and functionally. Someone who is as comfortable in front of the client as in front of the computer. Solid understanding of designing for the Web, and expertise with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript required. Flash, PHP, MySQL a plus. Project management skills also helpful. Adobe Creative Suite expertise desired. Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits package including retirement plan and health insurance. hr@bluehousegroup.com
 

Jobs in the Burlington VT location

Propeller Media Works

More details on their website: www.propelled.com

PHP/Web Developer

Propeller Media Works seeks candidates eager to join its experienced team of web designers and programmers. This is not a design position. Instead we seek a programmer with an eye for design to assist primarily in the development and ongoing integration of our proprietary PHP/MySQL based CMS and e-comm systems, B-B and B-C e-comm system integration, and custom web application development.

Jr. Developer

Propeller Media Works seeks exceptional candidates eager to join its experienced team of web designers and programmers. This is not a designer position, but the ideal candidate will have respect for design and at least 2 years of paid work experience producing websites. Must be solid in Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, CSS, and have a strong understanding of the open source toolsets (PHP/MySQL). Bonus for SEO/SEM and Mac/PC hardware/software/network skillsets.

Opportunities Credit Uniont, Burlington Vermont

http://www.oppsvt.org/jobs.htm

Adam Cogan is doing workshops in 4 US cities about moving access apps to .NET.

Here's more info and the US and other worldwide schedule

The U.S. workshops are soon!

• L.A. - (today) 9/22 - 23
• Seattle - 10/3 - 4
• Dallas 10/6 -7
• NYC 10/10 - 11

Sam's post reminded me that I meant to mention my big problem when I tried to show Vista and Glass to Vermont.NET on Monday night. It wouldn't work with the projector. In fact, when I plugged the projector into my laptop, the resolution changed on the laptop and did not revert when I yanked the plug out. Luckily it was a smallish group and I finally gave up and said "gather round" and showed them some of the pretty features.

All of the rest I did on my XP box with a Virtual PC since I had way too many versions of VS2005 required to show Atlas demos and LINQ demos.

Whoa - Robert Scoble said he was on the home page of Microsoft.com, so I had to go see. When I went to the home page I noticed this item:

News: Microsoft realigns for next wave of innovation and growth

I followed the link and among the subtitles see all kinds of interesting news! Better go look for yourself!!

There is no question in my mind that LINQ is going to be very important to .NET developers.

Larry groks the plumbing much better than I do at this point. I'm focused on what it will let me do.

At the end of PDC, I realized that I was in a bubble all week. I had stopped fretting over the Katrina disaster which is hardly behind us. Not once did I phone my parents to say hi. I didn't even send so much as a Hollywood postcard to my friend who was in the hospital. The only non-conference related contact I had with anyone was a few phone calls each day to my husband who had had a very scary and bloody hiking accident the day before I left for Los Angeles. I had no idea there was a hurricane in the Carolinas and completely forgotten about the rising cost of gas. This is the conference bubble. The world outside the conference and its focus just doesn't exist. I was only a few miles from the ocean and did not visit it. Nor did I see the ocean when I was at TechEd in San Diego.

Does anyone else feel this way? It makes me feel guilty to forget the world for a while.

I use XML plenty, but I am no XML guru. I can hack out XSLT and have used XQuery a handful of times. I definitely wondered how XLINQ would impact XQuery but do not have the background to make any comparison. Therefore, I was happy to see this post by Kent Tegels who does some pros & cons on XLINQ vs. XQuery. The big con for XLINQ is that it is proprietary. The big pro for XLINQ is that it is much more powerful. Says Kent: XLINQ wins by a technical knock-out before even getting into the ring. It really wasn’t going to be a fair fight though, was it? The underlying architecture of LINQ really fortify it the point where XQuery isn’t even in the same class. It’d be like a young Mohammed Ali boxing Superman.

Don't forget the VTSDA meeting today. It's a lunch time meeting from 12-2pm at the Ethan Allen Club in downtown Burlington.

Today's speaker is Jeffrey McMahan, a laywer from Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., speaking on Preparing to Grow or Sell: How to Prepare for Investors or Acquirers.

This meeting will focus on the legal and business matters that companies should make sure they have reviewed and put in order before they invite the scrutiny of lenders, investors or acquirers. Specific topics will include governance and financial control practices, intellectual property ownership and protection, employment matters, contract review and corporate record-keeping.

Jeffrey McMahan is a corporate and intellectual property lawyer, advising businesses on issues related to formation, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, technology licensing, trademarks and copyrights.  Mr. McMahan’s clients range from entrepreneurial start-ups to publicly-held companies.  He has particular experience working with software vendors and purchasers in system implementation, license and support agreements. 

Mr. McMahan’s practice also focuses on securities and trademark matters.  He has assisted both privately-held and publicly traded companies with the private placement of stock.  Mr. McMahan advises clients on the selection of trademarks and assists with the registration of their trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Meeting/Lunch is $15 for VTSDA members and $20 for non-members.

ThinkVermont.com is the website of the Vermont Department of Economic Development. They always have a calendar of interesting events (lectures, workshops, etc) in the area.

Here are a few upcoming ones I wanted to point out

(update: added Expression graphics stuff down below)

Links that I referred to last night in my "what I saw at PDC" VTdotNET presentation

first - Code Camp 4 "Almost Agenda"

VISTA

Tablet PC on Vista

Tablet PC on WPF (Avalon)

Atlas Website with Hands on Labs and Forums

LINQ Site

C# 3.0

VB9

Office 12

Channel 9 PDC Show Off - watch for videos to get posted, including the one for the robotic ride!!

Channel 9 has videos of Raymond Chen's session as well as demos of lots o fthe new technologies

Windows Workflow Foundation

Last but not least, there is now a webcast of the presentation we were hoping to have by Dr. Neil Roodyn on Network Awareness. I did not realize that it was broadcast live just today! (Tuesday)

Expression "family" (Acrylic Graphic Designer, Quartz Web Designer and Sparkle ("Sparkle" - sounds like something from the Barbie Family) Interactive Designer)

If I have forgotten anything, let me know.