Random .NET Ramblings

Quite interesting and good add-in for office to allow anyone to produce files that have the Creative Commons license into a document.

Go get it and produce something great for the world!

Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office

WOW I went to a MSDN event today… all I can say is wow if you have not been to a MSDN event you need to experience this type of event. You can see all kinds of geek information all in a movie theater. And yes if you try hard you can sneak in to a free movie after the event .

At the event today and I am sure at the event coming up this Thursday in Garden Grove for information about user groups and events so here is a list of local resources:

SoCal Resources:
MSDN Flash (http://msdn.microsoft.com/flash)
SoCal .NET Events (http://www.socalnetevents.org)
List of SoCal User Groups (http://www.socalnetevents.org/Default.aspx?tabid=61) I know bad back ground but the list is good!

San Diego User Groups:
San Diego .NET Developers Group (http://www.sddotnetdg.org)
San Diego .NET User Group (http://www.sandiegodotnet.com)

I will have a section of this site soon that list all the groups that I can find\know about so if you know if a group please let me know.

I know I am a coder so I should not care about infrastructure stuff but I do… I have see way too many developers blamed for infrastructure so I guess it has been an issue of self preservation but if you can get your servers monitored!

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2

Yes this job has had some strange twists for me but I think this one takes the cake. I was going to Las Vegas to attend and work the booth at JBoss world and in the week before I came I was asked to attend the eBay Developers Conference.

So here I am at lunch of the first day after a good morning of topics watching a bunch of geeks making Lego stuff. I will post pictures when I get a chance. I do have to say this was a good idea to get people to talk and work together.

Yesterday Microsoft made Windows Vista available to anyone who wants to pay for shipping or download it. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx and see if you system can run Vista… Note for me on my slow DSL the estimated time for download is 54 hours .

Have fun!

The PAG group has just released a CTP of the Mobile Client Software Factory. I have yet to read and play with the code but I am told it is great.

Please let me know what you think of it if you decide to play with it.

OK I know this is going to be a pain in my side but I want to do it so I can stay current on Compact Framework development. On the suggestion of Scott Kerfoot I have stated to develop a small test Compact Framework application. I have setup a new site to host it and it’s Web Service. Check it out!

Pubs Demo