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Friday, December 31, 2004 2:37 PM

Baltimore SQL Server Users Group: Linthicum, MD, Thursday, January 6th

Balto SQL Server Users Group has a meeting next Thursday in Linthicum at SM Consulting starting at 6:30 PM. Topic is to be determined.
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Friday, December 31, 2004 12:51 PM

MAVBUG: Millersville, MD, Thursday, January 13th

MAVBUG has a meeting in a couple of weeks, on a topic to be announced. The meeting will start at 6:30 PM and will be at Light Industries .
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Friday, December 31, 2004 12:20 PM

Extreme Development on the .NET Database using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005: Washington, DC, Feb 17th, and King of Prussia, PA, March 15th

Have you noticed that the word extreme had been undergoing a popularity fad lately? There's extreme programming , extreme ironing , and now Extreme Development on the .NET Database . Despite the name, this should be a useful event. The focus is the new
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Friday, December 31, 2004 11:35 AM

Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group: Washington, DC, Wednesday, January 19th

The next meeting of the Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. and usually
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Friday, December 31, 2004 11:27 AM

Wireless Technology and the Home User: Springfield, VA, Monday, January 10th

Panelists: Gene Gaines, President, Gaines Group Dennis Courtney, Systems Administrator, Inter-American Development Bank, and President, CPCUG This discussion will be moderated by Gene Gaines, a consultant to the wireless industry. Dennis Courtney will
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Friday, December 31, 2004 11:14 AM

The Federal Government's Electronic Records Archive: Arlington, VA, Thursday, January 13

Ken Thibodeau of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be the speaker at a meeting about NARA’s Electronic Records Archive . Dr. Thibodeau is the Program Manager for NARA’s Electronic Records Archive program . NARA’s vision is to
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Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:16 PM

Hiring an ISV DE

I see from the web site that we currently have an open slot for a developer evangelist (DE) to work with independent software vendors (ISVs.) You can apply here . This job is based in Washington, DC.
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Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:35 AM

Serialization and It's Importance: Columbia, MD, Tuesday, January 4th

Sahil Malik points out that when we write object-oriented programs, we represent the real world by using objects. In order to transport or store the objects, we need to convert them to some form of representation. Most often, this is done by serializing
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:34 PM

Webcasts Next Week!

Next week I will be delivering a webcast extravaganza: On Tuesday 4th, I'll be talking about Creating Custom Controls in ASP.NET . On Wednesday 5th, I'll be doing my ASP.NET 2.0 Overview Presentation . On Friday 7th, I'm doing Application Performance
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:17 PM

Code Generation Tools, Distributed Object-Oriented Apps: Oaks, PA, Wednesday, January 19

Philly .NET is having a meeting at SEI in Oaks, PA on January 19th. There are two great speakers. Mitch Ruebush , an architect with ING Direct in Wilmington and author , will talk about code generation tools. Rocky Lhotka , MSDN Regional Director and
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:02 PM

Hands-On Labs: Malvern, Various Dates

Stan Spotts (Greater Pennsylvania developer evangelist) and Reed Sutton (Greater Pennsylvania technology specialist) are organizing a series of hands on labs at the Microsoft office in Malvern, PA. Reed will be leading the following workshops: February
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:21 PM

Least Privilege Development: Tyson's Corner, VA, Tuesday, January 25th

Andrew Duthie and Anil John are on mission to stop you from logging in as an administrator. Andrew recently blogged about ASP.NET development when you're not an admin . Good advice, especially if you ever look at the Internet. There are bad guys out to
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 12:42 AM

Speakers Wanted!

Brian Moran from NovaSQL sent me an e-mail asking if I could publish a call for speakers. I think this is a great idea, but I'll generalize it a little. You should go and speak to your local user group. Not the other guy reading this post, but y ou .
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Monday, December 27, 2004 9:20 PM

XBox Raffle @ New Horizons

New Horizons is raffling off XBoxes to folks who take .NET training. What is the plural of XBox? Is it XBoxes or XBoxi?
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Sunday, December 26, 2004 12:20 PM

New Year’s Resolution Two: Exercise Every Day

I made this resolution last year, and it turned out to be more interesting than I expected. I have type two diabetes, which I can control fairly well through diet and exercise. “Can control” is a long way from “does control.” This time last year, I was
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Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:15 AM

Enterprise Software Patterns with .NET: Reston, VA, Wednesday, January 26

Developer evangelist Robert Shelton will be talking about the concepts and benefits of enterprise software patterns from the developer's perspective. He will use an integrated demo to show some of the efficiencies that can be achieved in enterprise applications
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Saturday, December 25, 2004 10:44 PM

WinProTeam: Vienna, VA, Wednesday, January 5

WinProTeam , formerly known as ASP Vienna, has a meeting on January 5th. This meeting is in the AT&T building in Tyson's Corner and starts at 6:00 PM. The topics are: "Go Independent the Easy Way" presented by Dwight Barbour . Dwight details how to
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Saturday, December 25, 2004 10:29 PM

Executive Technology Briefings: Richmond, VA, Tuesday, January 11 and Pittsburgh, PA, Thursday, May 5

These events are for IT execs in local government and education. For more info, see this page . Introduction Governing and Educating in a Connected World Security in a Connected World Enabling Organizations to Build and Manage Secure, Reliable, Cost-Effective
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Saturday, December 25, 2004 10:20 PM

Are you getting MSDN Flash?

Did you know that Microsoft puts out a developer newsletter with information on local events for devs? To make sure you get it, go to http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/subscription.aspx and check to receive MSDN Flash, then enter your ZIP code.
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Saturday, December 25, 2004 10:13 PM

.NET/J2EE Interoperability Seminar: Reston, VA, Monday, January 31

We have a .NET/J2EE Interop seminar at the Microsoft Office in Reston on January 31. Register with RSVP code USPRNJIS for a discounted price of $45. COURSE AGENDA: Comparison of current interoperability approaches Microsoft .NET Java and J2EE Basic interoperability
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Saturday, December 25, 2004 10:05 PM

Business Intelligence Deep Dive: Washington, DC, March 8th, Philly, March 16th

The Business Intelligence Deep Dive Show is coming. It's an all day (8:30 - 5:30) seminar covering the new BI platform in SQL Server 2005. Agenda: Keynote: Turning Data into Decisions Got information? (Or do you just have data...) Pulling Data into the
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