By jbonnie on
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:51:06 PM
I am super excited to have received an invitation letter from Joe Brinkman regarding the Dotnetnuke OpenForce07 Conference this coming November. My abstract on Subsonic, One More DAL can't hurt was selected.
If that was not enough, they want me to work with Rob Conery, the Lead for Subsonic. I introduced myself to Rob at Mix07 and the opensource panel that he was on with some serious heavy weights, but this is really sweet!!
I have been using Rob's videos to get to know Subsonic better and use it as the basis for a couple of application ports from ASP.NET 1.1 and Oracle Forms.
I was inspired for the talk by Chris Thames post,...
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By jbonnie on
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:40:54 PM
I thought it was cool when Jeremy Miller saw my comment to one of his posts on the WinForms CAB and rolling your own. He made a new post sharing the information from my comment about the new dotnet user group in Stamford, http://www.fairfieldwestchester.net/
Well Chris Bowen picked it up also and blogged about the new group.
I am pumped that the new Stamford group may get some action. I can't afford the gas to Hartford and NYC.
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By jbonnie on
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:57:33 PM
I am working with a skin purchased from snowcovered and trying to do some tweaking to make the padding around menu items more consistent. It appears that larger text items, get more padding. The site owner wants consistent padding around each menu item, regardless of how big the menu name is.
We cheated by adding extra text to the other menu items, so it is less obvious, but I may learn something about CSS if we can figure this out!
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By jbonnie on
Monday, May 14, 2007 8:32:13 PM
The Stamford Branch of the University of Connecticut had some INETA speakers over the past few years and I tried to get involved. I met the head of the IT dept and offered to build a DNN site. We lost contact and it never happened. The old site was at dotnet.uconn.edu and I saw the PC on the managers desk that hosted it! Tough times, no server room, just the corner of his desk.
But now I just found, http://www.fairfieldwestchester.net/ and guess what, they used DNN to build the site. At least they followed my recommendation
Let's see what happens at their next event this June 5th.
First Meeting:
June 5, 2007!
Speaker: Jean Barmash from Infusion Development
Topic: Spring.NET and AOP
If you'll be there, please send an email to Meeting AT FairfieldWestchester DOT net so that we will know how many people are attending.
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By jbonnie on
Monday, May 14, 2007 8:14:38 PM
Sometimes those nag emails or blog posts really help. Chris Hammonds post about the OpenForce07 Conference this Fall was well timed. I had other work to do, so why not put that on the shelf to complete the sessions abstracts that I was thinking about :)
I tried contacting Chris Thames about doing a Subsonic session, but his comments and email links are still working on hit site. Oh well.
Here are my 3 abstracts:
Dotnetnuke and Virtual Earth Integration
The Virtual Earth API published by Microsoft is an excellent way to incorporate mapping functionality into Dotnetnuke. This session will show 1) the key mapping APIs for Virtual Earth 2) how the VE APIs can be incorporated into a Dotnetnuke modules 3) some of the issues with javascript...
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By jbonnie on
Monday, May 14, 2007 6:31:43 PM
Yoga can help everyone.If you have a body and want to utilize its ultimate potential, then you need yoga.It’s a misconception to think yoga is only about stress release and to gain flexibility.That’s just a small part of it.Yoga is to make your mind sharp and be unaffected by emotions under any circumstance. To be unaffected by your emotions is getting to the root cause of all of our problems, no matter what, Yoga helps one to stop, think, breathe and act.So maybe you wont get good at the outer posture,But it’s the stilling and the strengthening of the mind that really matters.An intelligent yogi is one who lives for the internal awakening rather then simply just getting rid of back pain.
Through the practice of asanas we uncover the internal challenges that cause weight gain, pain orEmotional distress and help create wholeness, which creates a permanent change rather then a quick fix.Athletes know this; look at this clip that is the top story on www.nbcsports.comIt...
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By jbonnie on
Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:19:07 PM
If you can, please stop by Scott Hanselman's blog and help fight diabetes. While at Mix07 I was able to talk with Scott and he was approached by a fellow daibetic and they compared each other's realtime monitoring devices. These things are attached to themselves at all times to help alert of any dangerous blood sugar levels. It just shows the critical nature of the disease and what people must do to live with it each day.
Help if you can.
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By jbonnie on
Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:42:52 PM
Going to MIX 07 was one of the best treats that I could have given myself recently. It is my first real conference beyond the local user groups and code camps.
After two days with friends who live in town, I made it to the keynote and it was standing room only.
After that I went to the open source panel, and realized I was in the right place, when sitting next to me where: Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman, and Dave Laribee.
The next major encounter was thanks to Julie Lerman, who has been help me navigate the dotnet waters. Well Julie knows just about everyone and is very down to earth and provided a number of introductions that I would...
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By jbonnie on
Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:57:25 PM
Subsonic 2.0 is now available. There is a post about a Dotnetnuke module that packages up the subsonic system and provides some of the scaffolfing functionality.
It has some real possibilites.
Posted from Vegas, getting ready for Mix
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By jbonnie on
Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:19:47 PM
Looks like the ORM wave continues, with a talk at the Connecticut DotNet User Group on Tuesday April 24th on NHibernate.
CTDOTNET Presentation: April 24 Tues (6-8PM). Benjamin Day (Architect/Consultant) on 'Developing ASP.NET Applications with NHibernate'.
Then a new branch of the use group kicks off on May 8th in Shelton. Yea, a little closer to home!
South Connecticut .NET Group: Inaugural Event - May 8th (Tues) 6-8PM
Meeting to be held at Pitney Bowes (27 Waterview Drive, Shelton CT)
Cherkasova (Senior Proj.Manager/Consultant - AVICODE).The presentation gives an overview of the new Microsoft technology DLinqtechnology is explored in the context of B2B data exchange tasks in enterprise applications. The presentation shows how to streamline...
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