According to Scoble there is a DevDays blogging contest. DevDaysBloggers.Net will be tracking the number of blog posts from each city aggregated throught their site. I need your help!

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Now that nearly every portable computing device is being made with some for of wireless connectivity device inside we see more and more locations offering their services as an access point.

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In a number of recent conversations people have complained about not being able to find the source code for many of the old red cover Wrox titles that are now apparently out of print.

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…and the rockets' red glare…

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

7:32 PM

This is off topic for the usual content of this site, but this Saturday I was able to witness the launch of a Titan 4B rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There is certainly something special about space travel. While touring the exhibits including the Apollo program one can not help think what it would be like to be apart of something that big. While there are many large scale accomplishments being achieved by large groups of people, is there anything else like putting a man on the moon? At PDC I heard how Microsoft is spending more on Longhorn than it cost to put a man on the moon ($450,000,000) [There, this post is now on topic] I hope that NASA is able to refocus on a large goal like heading back to the moon, or to Mars. There have been so many spin-offs that have benefited society as a result of their efforts.

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Tech Engage is a non-profit organization in North Carolina with the goal of providing technology training to those that are unemployed or under-employed in the IT industry including courses on ASP.NET and SQL SERVER.

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Jim Duffy Presents DotNetNuke

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

7:00 PM

Tonight at the TRINUG meeting Jim Duffy presented DotNetNule, a free content management portal.

A walk through in how simply it is to setup and administer a DotNetNuke portal. The Triangle .Net User Group site has recently been converted over. The framework provides a nice way to separate the site administration activities from the content entry/update roles.

One of the cool thing that Jim went on to discuss was the creation of your own modules for use within the portal framework. While the main portal code is in VB, you are able to use any .Net language to extend the portal to meet your needs, with the benefit of having built in security and administrative capabilities. Jim used DotNetNuke for his corporate website www.takenote.com. The coolest thing is that you can have info from the site automatically syndicated in RSS for aggregator consumption!

A new version 2.0 is apparently on it's way in the new future with skins and a new data provider model.

Tonight's meeting sponsor was SyncFusion who provided pizza and brought some great door prizes and product samples.

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Joe Hummel, PHD is currently offering a highly enjoyable and informative 15 webcast series on software development using .Net.

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After spending the last month getting to know my Tablet PC I've decided that I need to make some time to start writing some code for. Moving to a Tablet has been a great experience and has opened a world of opportunities to me.

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Microsoft has bolted an extended event to the end of DevDays on March 9th in Durham.

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Welcome back Mr. Scoble!

Robert Scoble is one of the reasons that I started to read weblogs and eventually started my own. I think many would agree that he is a poster child for blogging. He always seems to come up with some real gems. To me the real value is when he applies his own experiences of the technology industry to current events. His insights are well worth noting.

Over this time, there has been another Mr. Scoble that has been taking form. As part of his role as a Microsoft “Evangelist” for Longhorn, he has made himself very accessible to the community. I think that Robert by far has a better understanding and relationship with the users of MS products. He is easily one of the most approachable faces Microsoft has ever seen. He really seems to care about the issues and truly gets involved with the issues that corss his desk. This s the real value, to us and to the “New“ Microsoft, a publicly accessible, well connected Robert Scoble.

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Stevex has posted some extremely handy code to make a service self installable (and un-installable).

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