I recently become a member of the INETA Community Activities core team. We are currently promoting the code camps, Indigo roadshows, SQL roadshows, and the MS launch event in November. Morgan Baker is heading up this newly created division of INETA. I met most of the members of the team while helping with the INETA booth and Birds of a Feather events at TechEd 2005.
I received some information about this Port80 survey through the MS email chain. It very clearly shows that ASP/.NET and IIS are rapidly becoming the development platform of choic for many companies. Here are the surveys and the related press release that I'm talking about. I have to say that I'm rather surpised by the numbers, but also very excited. I guess more people need to get introduced to blowery's HTTP compression module to get the numbers up for HTTP compression. I for one, have started ......
This is a hilarious clip. I don't know where this came from, but I got this from someone at work and thought I would share it. You can view the clip at http://old.tekfamily.com/Portals/57ad7180-c5e7-49f5-b282-c6475cdb7ee7/Don't_Touch_My_Bone.wmv
Monday July 11th, Don delivered a great presentation on SQL Server 2005 - Developer Security at the CRINETA user group meeting. At the beginning I gave him a hard time about the fact that he wasn't going to present at the HDC05 in Cedar Rapids this year. During the meeting he discussed schemas, synonyms, impersonation permissions, encryption, etc. After Don's presention, the CRINETA officers treated Don to a night out in Cedar Rapids. We met at the Irish Democrat for drinks and those fabulous cheese ......