Contents tagged with INETA
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Corporate .NET User Groups?
Everyone knows about INETA and how it supports public .NET user groups. In fact, according to the counter on the up left corner of the INETA home page, there are currently 522 registered user groups with 196,658 users worldwide.
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INETA Speakers band at PDC
Kirk Allen took this picture of the INETA Speakers band playing at the Expo hall during “Ask The Experts” at PDC last week.
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PDC "Gatherings"
It took a few weeks to put together, but INETA now has their first feedback system in place, this time for gathering topic ideas for “Birds of a Feather” (or BOF) get-togethers at the PDC.
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VB and C#: Some perspective
I just got done writing the editor's note for VSLive! Orlando (I'm the conference chair for VBITS and VSLive!), which helped clarify in my own mind something that I observed last week while doing a couple of INETA user group presentations.
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Pill people posit?
OK, thanks to some noted bloggers (Tim, Don, and Robert in particular) everybody knows that Chris Sells "took the red pill" and joined Microsoft. No doubt, this has caused some people to wonder about their chances of getting hired by Microsoft.
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St Louis .NET UG
I did a talk on remoting for the St Louis .NET User Group on Monday. It was very different than the one I did in January for the Austin .NET User Group. The Austin meeting was quite an eye-opener: A large number of the people there were from the Java .com meltdown and most of the questions were about bridging between .NET Remoting and J2EE RMI. For those who care, check out Ja.NET from Intrinsyc and JNBridge Pro from JNBridge. The wierdest thing about the Austin talk was the ride back to the airport: The cab driver was a laid-off IBM Java developer with a master's in computer science. Very scary.
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Why am I doing this?
Well, Scoble's been after me for a while to set up a blog but, frankly, I figured it was just another nutball technology that was never going to amount to anything. I mean, he's always pushing something, right?
OK, so sometimes I can be a bit thick. But three things happened to me this week that - combined - pushed me over the edge. 1) On a flight to St Louis to do an INETA presentation on remoting to the St Louis .NET User Group, I sat next to a United Airlines pilot and learned some amazing stuff (which I'll put in a subsequent post) related to their current financial problems. 2) People all around me mentioned that Don Box was driven to the airport by Jeff Richter after a King Crimson concert. 3) Daniel A. Seara (the MSDN RD for Argentina who I met at the INETA LATAM kickoff a couple of weeks ago) forwarded a truly interesting link to Scott Hansleman's Tips for a Successful MSFT Presentation. So...in reverse order to above...there's some great stuff up there, people I know are doing it, and I've got a few things I'd like to tell the world about. Besides, I mentioned to Yasser that I was thinking about it and about a half-dozen people e-mailed me about that.
