Microsoft has released new details on the changes to there Certification programs to find-out how this will impact you check out the new site or the faq on the site.

 

Found a nice article that explains the details of Code Snippets quite nicely: Introducing Visual Studio 2005 IntelliSense Code Snippets by Patrick Gallucci

For more info go to .NET Rocks! VS 2005 Road Trip be there!

I was just shown this article about the compare and contrast the differences and benefits.

Visual Studio Home: Choosing Between Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

I am on the plane back from Hawaii. It was the a great trip I Got to do a presentation to about 65 customers about . Net 2.0 I an told it went well but I can't judge that until/ I seethe evaluations come.

while I was there I got to have dinner with some great user group supporters and it looks like there will be a Hawaii users group starting in November!

I will post details as they get set all I know for sure now is that we have the date of Nov 9th set as the date. I hope to have some one from corporate come to do a presentation About a Launch Related topic.

The deck I used on Wednesday the 27th is here and a short demo on VSTS I have on Thursday the 28th is here.

Yep that’s right I am gong to Hawaii next week… but it’s to work. I was in Hawaii once while I was in the navy and have never been back so I am looking forward to see Hawaii in a much different way. I will be in Honolulu form mid day Tuesday to Friday afternoon. I doubt anyone from there reads my blog but if you do please let me know and we can try to hook up and have small geek dinner or some such.

I had quite a time getting the RC of Visual Studio installed then I found vs_uninst.exe this is the way to get Beta 2 off quickly!

It’s all out now!

Code Camp is coming to Seattle on October 22^nd & 23^rd.

This is an event for developers, by developers – two days packed with content from presenters all over the West Coast. With the community momentum from PDC and the Code Camp in Portland last July, this upcoming event in Seattle is going to be off the charts… please help spread the word with the attached invite so developers in our accounts don’t miss out! 

This is the premier event for developers in the Seattle metro area. The location in Federal Way is within driving distance from Olympia to Everett (on the weekend anyway J). I’m working on chartering transportation for developers in Spokane as well (contact me for more details).

Services employees (particularly of the dev persuasion) – not only should you attend, but I encourage you to join in the fun and present a session or two! Sharing your real-world experience building enterprise solutions (and putting out fires) would be of great value to your peers in the developer community. We don’t need no stinkin’ product group market-droids, we want the real deal! Please contact me if you’re interested. 

Thanks for your help everyone – it’s campin’ time!

I don’t think I will get to go but darn it sounds like fun!

Yes it is extremely strange but I am sitting in a room at PDC hooked up to the world via my i730 phone with no power. As long as the battery holds out I will be OK but I am now hearing a demo… this is strange but hey I am still geeking out!

 

 

I also just found out that my hosting provider is in LA and pewitt.org is down now so you will not get to see this post until it comes back online  so much for backup power.

I just found this nice list of all of Microsoft’s Shared Source projects http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Licensing/Developer.mspx fun code to work with!

Interesting to see how much of  a mixed message different analysts but it is interesting what some businesses are experiencing with Linux. 

Gartner: Linux 'five years away from mainstream' use - silicon.com