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• Awesome looking webcast series to bring VB6ers into the .NET fold

  Are you or do you know a VB6 programmer who is still worried about the leap, learning curve, etc. to .NET? To me the most daunting thing was not wanting to just do things the VB6 way when I moved to .NET. I didn't want to be just another mort. Well this... Posted Jan 16 2004, 01:34 PM by jlerman with | with no comments Filed under: Misc

• Massachusetts backs off on Open Source policy

  A few months ago there was a proposal in the works for the state of Massachusetts that looked like someone was trying to force Mass to use “Open Standards and Open Source” software only and not get locked into licensing etc. (my interpretation... Posted Jan 13 2004, 06:01 PM by jlerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Just Launched: TheServerSide.NET

  Always the last to know! I got an email from a good friend of mine who is a Java programmer at BEA telling me about www.theserverside.net (“Your Enterprise .NET Community“) which was just launched this morning. The Middleware Company today... Posted Jan 13 2004, 03:46 PM by jlerman with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• INETA January Newsletter on it's way

  The next INETA newsletter is on it's way out. I got some awesome help this month (and going forward) from Sheri Nawrocki who is on the INETA Marketing committee and also a graphic designer (consultant hint hint) as well as a .NET Developer. Sheri did... Posted Jan 13 2004, 03:14 PM by jlerman with | with no comments Filed under: Misc

• Scott Hanselman at NYCdotNETDev this Thursday night

  I love the description of this talk! Zen and the Art of Web Services (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love WSDL) Will Web Services save the world? More importantly, will they save you time? Are Web Services just a bunch of hooey? We’ll... Posted Jan 12 2004, 05:57 PM by jlerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Patrick Hynds tonight at Vermont .NET

  Pat Hynds is our Regional Director (though he's about 3 or 4 hours away). He is also an INETA speaker, a big-time conference speaker and a security expert . Pat is also one of the nicest guys (ask anyone in the development community). The trivia I love... Posted Jan 12 2004, 02:28 PM by jlerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Humorous Contradiction in InfoWorld article on msdn.blogs.com

  So InfoWorld has a nice article (by my pal Joris Evers who did the tablet article that I was interviewed for) interviewing Sara Williams about the new weblogs that are officially now at blogs.msdn.com (thanks to Scott Watermasysk's .TEXT weblog). Yet... Posted Jan 11 2004, 10:54 PM by jlerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Client Scripting: ASP.NET attributes vs. all the rest of the attributes

  I had a conversation with a friend who is new to web development and is doing an ASP.NET application. She came upon a roadblock that I recall made me nuts two years ago. She wanted to grab an onclick event on a server control in the client side script... Posted Jan 11 2004, 07:43 PM by jlerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Roy Osherove's THIRD article on MSDN Online

  Well, now we know what Roy kept himself busy in between his full time employment job and his first big contracting gig up in Norway. He has had three articles published in the last month! This is so impressive. 1) Creating a Plug-In Framework (Dec '03... Posted Jan 10 2004, 06:55 PM by jlerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Paul Stubbs- MS Visual Studio.NET Office Tools Program Manager blogging

  Every so often, Microsoft raids the coffers of INETA. Or so we like to think, when they hire user group leaders, INETA speakers, etc. Paul Stubbs is one of those that Microsoft recently sucked up. Paul was the leader of MaineBytes for a very long time... Posted Jan 09 2004, 08:21 PM by jlerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Misc