Datagrid Girl

Dr. Neil blogging!

I think I've mentioned him before, but my friend and smart dude Dr. Neil is doing the blog thing.  He lives an interesting lifestyle (travels the Northern and Southern hemispheres in order to avoid winter), and gets into interesting technologies (he's been a Tablet Boy lately, etc.).  Looks like he's also talking about refactoring and some other fun stuff over there.

--Marcie

Do feed the animals (off topic)

BizTalk 2004 Training in Toronto

Hey ya'll, our company (ObjectSharp) is teaching a BizTalk 2004 class the week of July 5th in Toronto (the city of fun), if anybody's interested, let me know.

--Marcie

DevTeach Snacks

I'm here at DevTeach in Montreal, and while there isn't a lot of snack food lying around, the desserts served at lunch are excellent.  I'm sitting here downstairs womanning a booth, but Ted just brouhgt me some desserts, and the chocolate mousse cake is superb.  Thanks Ted.

UPDATE:  Dave Burke would like it noted that there were NO afternoon snacks available at DevTeach, and we would like to see some for next year.  Since we're asking for things, can we have some politer serving staff?  :)

--Marcie

Speaking at 3

Ok, I'm giving a talk here at DevTeach at 3PM on Datagrids and Gridviews in ASP.NET.  Should be lots of fun, I love speaking at the last minute.

--Marcie

Retirement

I'd like to bid farewell to two old friends that are retiring at the end of this month, exams 70-175, and 70-176.  I remember you both with fondness, and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

--Marcie

Linux, Munich, and Sonu Kapoor

My friend Sonu has an interesting thread going on his blog about the City of Munich / Linux thing.  I thought it was particularly interesting because I used to live in Munich.  Check out the comments too.

--Marcie

Multi-Author Books

I just bought a SAMS book, and it has 14 authors, 8 editors and a team coordinator.  What is the world coming to. Seriously. Does anyone else think this is overkill?

--Marcie

A Happy, Googly World

I love the fact that I live in a world where I can go to Google (or in my case, directly from GMail) and type Hanselman presentation font, and find exactly what I'm looking for.  (I wanted to know the right font to make my Visual Studio for my talk last night so that people would be able to read it.  It didn't work out anyway though, my machine totally crashed, and I hate to borrow Kate's Visual Studio.  She didn't have it set to the Hanselman font, but that's beside the point.  Anyway).  So thanks world for Google (and Hanselman).  I also wanted to apologize to the people last night who got crappy prizes, namely my McDonald's Happy Meal toy and the paper frog I made out of an ObjectSharp flyer.  But it was a fun time, really!  And next time maybe Microsoft or INETA will get us some swag before the meeting.  I also meant to give out a GMail invite at the meeting, but I forgot :(

If anyone's keeping score (or still reading), I talked about Datagrids and Gridviews last night at the East of Toronto .NET User group.

--Marcie

Speaking tonight in Oshawa (not Ottawa), East of Toronto, Canada

I just really like this picture on the announcement because it makes me look fast, and/or agile.  Anyway, I'm giving a Datagrid talk tonight for Kate Gregory's user group, East of Toronto.  This is a fairly smallish group, so I'm hoping to keep it more informal, so somewhere of a cross between my VSLive! conference talk and the BOF I did at Tech Ed (very very informal).

Hope to see ya there, Marcie