When:
Thursday, April 10th 6:30pm

Speaker: Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens is a passionate and experienced software developer living in Knoxville, TN. Alan has had a lifelong love affair with technologies of all sorts. He became a software developer with the creation of his first application, because there was nobody around to do it for him. Life hasn't been the same since. Alan regularly speaks at industry conferences and user groups.  Alan is the President of the East Tennessee .NET Users Group.  When Alan is not playing with his kids, enjoying a fine cigar, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates his blog at http://netcave.org..

Meeting Location:
3 Lakeview Place, 22 Century Blvd.
Suite 140
Nashville, Tennessee  37214
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See http://www.nashdotnet.org/ for more info

May 1st

Register --> MS Launch Event - Heroes Happen

The Nashville Visual Studio .NET User Group Leadership will be staffing the INETA booth, so stop by for a visit.  I'll be there...and you should all buy me drinks afterwards! ;-)

ArcReady Event: Architecting for Scalable and Usable Web Applications

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:00 AM - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:45 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:45 AM

Microsoft Corporation

2555 Meridian Blvd, Suite 300
Franklin Tennessee 37067
United States

Register Online

Here's a simple twitter.com api wrapper.  Should be easy to use and self-explanatory.  Set a ref, create an instance of the TwitterWrapper class, and go...

I should be posting the metaweblog/twitter WM5/6 client soon.  I couldn't find one that would support BlogEngine.NET.

I've had a few people ask me over the last month about this...so here's the link.  I guess more people are moving to VS 2008 now.

Here's how to 'fix' VSS2005 and VS 2008 :

Visual Source Safe 2005 Update

<sarcasm>This should be a blast </sarcasm>

Microsoft Technet Link For Download & Info

*warning 445Mb download

I won't make this a long,drawn-out rant, but I have to vent (just for peace of mind)...
I actually saw the following in code recently :

if("A Literal String".ToUpper() == someRandomVariable.ToUpper()){...}

and

string vbcrlf = "\r\n";

How/When will development on the Microsoft platform ever mature to the point where any bozo who can spell his name and have a conversation with a recruiter will not be allowed to actually create code on real software systems?

I know the dream is that creating LOB systems/applications becomes as easy as using an iPOD, but, for god's sake, we're not there yet.  STOP IT!  You actually do have know more than simple syntax to do this job!

Oh...here's another one...
I just found a situation on a SQL server:  In true Microsoft DBA fashion, a bozo had set the log file initial size for a particular database to the exact size of the physical drive it was located on - and had it configured to auto-grow by 10% !

okay...I'm calming down now...see the the daily WTF for more evidence that our industry is a mess.  I can't believe I've reached the point that I hate hobbyist...in the past I had a great deal of respect for the hobbyist programmers...now they all have programming jobs, but no clue.  I created an excel macro once, so I should be qualified to design your fulfillment system....jeez!!!

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