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Friday, January 30, 2004 7:18 PM

Steve Walther at ASP Vienna and ASP Rockville: McLean, VA, Wednesday, Feb 4th / Rockville, MD, Thursday, Feb 5th

Steve Walther, author of ASP.NET Unleashed , will be at ASP Vienna and ASP Rockville this week. He'll be doing two presentations, the first on Using Client Side Java Script in Custom Web Controls, and the second on Extending the ASP.NET Runtime Using
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:00 PM

SQL Server Reporting Services

It's finally done. We had a launch event for SQL Server Reporting Services earlier this week. A lot of people are excited, especially because you can add it to an existing (licensed) SQL Server with no additional license fee . I've been playing around
Posted by gsnowman | 14 Comments
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:52 PM

Calling the Mountain State

I'm the developer community champion for West Virginia, Virginia, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. I've done events in Virginia, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and I know about user groups either in or close to each of these places.
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Monday, January 26, 2004 8:13 PM

Dev Days in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia

I'm lucky enough to be invited to speak at the Dev Days in Philadelphia (PA Convention Center) on March 2 and Pittsburgh (Lawrence Convention Center) on March 9 . My session is “Developing Secure Web Applications: Examining an End-to-End, Hack-Resilient
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Monday, January 26, 2004 7:55 PM

Dev Days Bloggers

Dev Days 2004 now has a dedicated blogging site . Whenever you see the blogger guy , you're seeing the best in Dev Days related blogging. At PDC last October , one of the coolest things was the number of folks who blogged the PDC . PDC was in one city,
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Monday, January 26, 2004 10:55 AM

DC MCSD Study Group is Cancelled

The DC MCSD Study Group scheduled for Rockville this evening has also been cancelled. We'll resume next week with Chapter 2 of the Kalani book on controls.
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Monday, January 26, 2004 10:51 AM

Capital Area SQL Server Users Group is Cancelled

Since we're enjoying a winter wonderland in the nation's capital , Brian Moran has cancelled tonight's Capital Area SQL Server User's Group that was scheduled for AT&T in Tyson's Corner. I was supposed to talk about SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services,
Posted by gsnowman | 2 Comments
Monday, January 19, 2004 12:49 AM

The Server Side does .NET

Interesting. The folks who run TheServerSide.com , which is a huge hub for the J2EE community, have just started a .NET site called TheServerSide.NET . These are the guys who ran the J2EE side of the controversial Pet Shop benchmark. They recently asked
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:57 PM

Essential .NET by Brian Noyes, Reston, VA, Feb 3rd

Brian Noyes , who is an awesome speaker on .NET, is doing a low cost one day class called Essential .NET in Reston on Feb 3rd. The morning is a drill down on the C# language. The afternoon session focuses on details of the way the CLR manages assemblies
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 1:59 PM

ASP.NET Seminars in King of Prussia, PA, and Fairfax, VA

We have a couple of great ASP.NET seminars coming up in Fairfax and King of Prussia. The King of Prussia seminar is on Tuesday, January 27 th , and the Fairfax seminar is on Thursday, January 29 th . Both start at 1:00 PM. The content for both seminars
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:55 AM

Office Developer Event in Pittsburgh, Tuesday Jan 20th

Because the Pittsburgh Microsoft Office 2003 launch event got cancelled, we're running a series of make up events in Pittsburgh to cover the same content. This Tuesday, Jan 20th, we have the Office 2003 launch developer content. You can register here
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:32 AM

Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers

I spent Saturday teaching my two C# classes at Byte Back . Byte Back is a great organization in North East Washington DC that provides computer skills training at little or no cost. I was involved with Byte Back in the very early days (1997); I taught
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Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:40 AM

ASP.NET Certification Study Group in Rockville, MD

Last week I went to the inaugural meeting of a study group who are going to study for the ASP.NET exams in VB and C#. They plan to meet each Monday in Rockville, MD. This coming Monday, Jan 19th, they are going to study the first chapter of the Kalani
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Friday, January 16, 2004 6:08 PM

Events This Week

This week I've been in Wilmington, DE and Allentown, PA , (actually Bethlehem) doing seminars on ASP.NET Architecture and ASP.NET security. It's been an interesting experience as I have a foot infection at the moment and I'm doing seminars in a wheel
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Friday, January 16, 2004 5:58 PM

About Me...

Hi, I'm Geoff Snowman, the Developer Community Champion for Maryland, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The organization at Microsoft that I work for is called the “Seminar Sales Team“ and it's based in Dallas, Texas.
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