March 2005 - Posts
If you are in the Dallas, Ft. Worth area - check out the plans for the area's First Geek Dinner, planned solely by Cory Smith. Come eat, play games, and enjoy to comraderie of fellow .NET'ers...
When: Monday, April 11, 2005. 7:00pm - ???
Where: Main Event, Grapevine Texas
As Chris Menegay recently blogged, many of us UG leaders have talked about this in the past, and Cory made it happen! Thanks Cory!
Scoble started the mystery about crossfader.com earlier this month, and today we launched the beta....
Today, in partnership with Microsoft, we (»telligentsystems) launched the beta version of a community website based solely on CommunityServer v1.0.
The site, http://www.crossfader.com, is an online community for the global electronic artist - those who have a passion for making music - from the hobbyist all the way to the signed and promoted music recording artists. Some of the current features include:
- Musicians who register with the site receive their own blog & gallery
- Home Page – This will feature a new artist on a regular basis Check out the streaming audio player and functional elements of the header
- The Booth – Check out this section for genre-specific information such as featured artists, blogs, event calendar, etc..
- The Knowledge – Informational portion of the site. Learn how to make music here, with a plethora of tips & tricks
- The List – Artist-“roll”, linking to the registered member’s Blog, Gallery, Location, & Genres
Logon, register, and take a look at our beta site. Also, keep an eye out in the coming weeks for some very cool features designed to easly allow musicians to promote their activities and events.
[From Rob Caron]
Today, Rob and the VSTS team announced the pricing & licensing approach for MSDN, Visual Studio 2005, and Team System
In Summary (From Microsoft's Press Release)
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition: $799 (upgrade: $549)
- Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System: $799 (upgrade: $549)
- Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition: $299 (upgrade: $199)
- Visual Studio 2005 Express editions will be $49.
Subscription and renewal estimated retail pricing for Visual Studio 2005 Team System offers tremendous value relative to the traditionally costly life-cycle products in this segment; prices for volume licenses start at $3,191 including Software Assurance. More information about the estimated retail pricing for Visual Studio 2005 Team System can be found at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com.
Most Visual Studio users receive Visual Studio through an MSDN subscription, and MSDN provides Software Assurance for Visual Studio. Customers choose an MSDN subscription level and receive development and test licenses for Microsoft servers and applications along with an accompanying Visual Studio product. With Visual Studio Team System, customers will continue to receive these MSDN subscription benefits with the new line of subscriptions that complement the Visual Studio 2005 product line.
New Team System Product Names (From Rob)
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite (includes all 3 role-based products below)
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent (not mentioned, but FYI)
Want to install CommunityServer? Steve Schofield with OrcsWeb just published his "CommunityServer Installation" cheat sheet. Hopefully you will find that our web-based installer simplifies the installation process by leaps and bounds!
 | "The Shield" Fans... The wait is over! Tonight is the season premiere of the 4th Season of the hard-hitting cop drama, "The Shield". Michael Chiklis and crew are back with a new boss, Glenn Close! This season plans to be a great one! Here are some "Shield Links" that should get you psyched up for the premiere... Enjoy! |
| Where? When?
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
FXNetworks, 10pm EST/9pm CST/7pm PST |
Check out the new MSDN Online article, which provides guidance on how to install Team System (link below)
Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System (by David C. Bost)
I'm going to read it in detail later tonight (after the premiere of the Star Wars III: The Revenge of the Sith trailer (Airing on Fox, tonight sometime during "The O.C.")
But from my first glance, it appears to be concise and easy to follow! Thanks David for the guidance!
[From Jason Salas - Thanks Jason!]
It's that time of year again! Selection Sunday is 6 days away!
I saw someone blog about this, and thought others might appreciate it...
Here is Tourney Logic's "Tourney Bracket Control", an ASP.NET v1.x User Control that provides rich management of tournament brackets.
End User Features:
- Designed for entering end user picks extremely quickly.
- Ability to choose teams at any round and auto fill backwards.
- Drop-down boxes will filter teams from drop-down boxes based on previous selections
- Ability to see which teams users picked won or lost
- Shows entire bracket on one page. This feature allows users to complete the bracket without having to go to multiple pages.
- Try the live demos of the Tourney Bracket Control in action
- NCAA "March Madness" Basketball Tournament Sample
- NBA Playoff Sample
- Major League Baseball Playoff Sample
- NFL Playoffs Samples with first round byes and re-seeding after the first round.
- First Round Bye Bracket Sample
This would be a GREAT control for any sporting event, Pinewood Derby races, little league baseball tournaments, etc...
Company Site >> Product >> Demos >> Pricing
Interested in learning more about Enterprise Architecture? Natty Gur is
contemplating starting up such a group, so drop him a line and let him know if you are interested.
Just wanted to blog about an exciting opportunity that presented itself...
I just signed on as the Program Director for the Plano .NET User Group North Dallas .NET User Group (as announced last night). Jason talked briefly about some big changes in store for the group, new meeting location, etc.. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'll be working with the rest of the NDDNUG team to continue shaping and growing the group to meet our member's needs. We'll work with the best local and national talent to provide great content to the members, as well doing some neat things to promote collaboration between our members. I'm really excited for this opportunity.
This means that I'm stepping down from my role as "Director of Speakers" for the Dallas .NET User Group. The guys running the group, Dave, Roger, & Omar are doing a great job, and I wish them well. DDNUG has shown some wonderful growth and great promise since we took over the group last year. Now, DDNUG's 2005 calendar is booked, and the first 2 meetings for 2005 (Rob Howard & Brad Abrams) brought in 400+ people (200+ each)! DDNUG has a great membership base and a great location - which makes for an AWESOME user group.
The Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex has many user groups - kudos to our local DE Brian Moore for helping support all of us - we know that is a lot to work. (I mean, check out this list... Brian == Uber DE!) Having soo many groups allows us to compliment each other, and provide a great .NET Community for everyone in the area!
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