We are starting into the planning for VSLive San Francisco (Jan 30-Feb 3) right now. A call for papers should be up very soon at: http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/callforpapers/

I am going to be involved with the ASP.NET track.  Feel free to copy me with your presentations via email to make sure they get considered.  I will forward sessions for other tracks to the representative track chairs.  It looks like we will still have the ASP.NET, Smart Client and SQL tracks that have been the mainstay of VSLive for some time.

If you are not interested in speaking but are an attendee that would like to see a particular topic covered feel free to contact me with your suggestions.  I would love the input!

Thanks,

Chris

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:39:52 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [1]  

I mentioned on DotNetRocks an application that I showed that I have been working on in my spare time at the Northwest Code Camp. This application, SeattleTraffic, is a desktop, Pocket Pc and SmartPhone live traffic monitoring application that gets it's data from WSDOT.  At one point I thought about selling it but hit some niggling memory leaks in the compact framework that I could not get around. I didn't feel right selling an application that would only run 16 hours before crashing so I have just held onto the code and waited for Compact Framework 2.0.  I mentioned the code in passing to our local DE Jason Mauer and he convinced me to show it at the code camp and release it out into the wild.  So with no further ado here it is.

A few requests. 

• If you make improvements I would love to see them. 
• If you figure out a workaround for the memory leaks I would like to hear about how you did it.

Download SeattleTraffic.zip

Friday, August 12, 2005 1:56:13 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]  

I had a blast doing it.  I love listening to the shows and can't even imagine the amount of work that goes into putting it together each week. 

Main realization?  I talk way too much.  Get me going and not even Carl can get in a word edgewise.  Well hopefully everyone who listens to it will find it interesting.

Thanks Carl, Richard and Geoff.

Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:55:42 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [3]  

Be sure to visit all the options under "Configuration" in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 16 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:00:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]   dasBlog

Looks like I will be doing a GrokTalk on Tuesday about combining the Enterprise Library security block with ASP.NET 1.1.  Check out http://www.groktalk.net/blog/ for the full schedule of talks being given by the Regional Directors.

Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:52:40 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [1]  

I have a need for an odd kind of Wiki.  I want one that allows me to control a list of contributors but expose the site for anonymous readonly access.  I have seen other folks interesting in something like this.  Paul Wilson talks about a version he put together to suit his particular needs.

Does anyone know of a full wiki implementation in .NET that is more along these lines?  Time to start one?

Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:47:17 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]  

I am starting the session planning process for ASPLive! Orlando is in full swing.  I will be tracking out the ASPLive sessions and this is my official notice that I am accepting submisssions.  Feel free to submit them directly to me or use the online form here.

VSLive is returning to Orlando!  The show will be October 9-13th.

 I have been asked to head up the ASP.NET content selection for this show.  The current plan is to split into three tracks: a Smart Client track, an ASP.NET track and a SQL track. 

 Please send all proposals to me and include VSLive Orlando in the title so that i spot them.  Alternatively please use http://www.fawcette.com/conferences/callforpapers/ to submit session ideas. This show will not be us just picking up all the content from the previous shows.  Twice a year we take a fresh look at the content and San Francisco and Orlando happen to be the shows we target.  Treat this as the first call for proposals.  I need all proposals by June 17th so I can get a preliminary matrix setup. I need proposals for both 60 minutes sessions and all day workshops.

Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:43:57 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]  

My subscription file in NewsGator got horked by a lodgenet proxy at the Rio Hotel in Vegas a couple weeks ago.  I sent it to newsgator who said they would fix it, took one look at it, and said they fix them by hand and I have too many feeds to do by hand.

Nice guys.  The unspoken implication is that your time is more valuable than mine.

So the search is on for a new aggregator.  While I kind of liked the fact that the messages were stored in Outlook I might be willing to look at some other type of aggregator.

I haven't been looking around but what is the killer aggregator as of late?  FeedReader?  RssBandit?  What?

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:57:08 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [1]