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Let me know what you think… I am still breaking my Picasa habit

I got to participate in the 2006 MVP North American Engagement Tour in Microsoft's San Diego office. As a result I am going making a new feed category for MVPs so they can subscribe only to content that I think they will be interested in. The propose for this is so I can hopefully start working with Southern California MVPs to get them engaged in the local community as well as the excellent work they do online.

Don’t know what a MVP is? Check out the MVP site on Microsoft.com http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Have you ever wanted row and cell level security SQL Server? Well now with the tools that the Federal MCS team has released you can have it. Check out the post on there blog for details.

SQL Server 2005 -- Tools for row and cell level security

The Beta 2 version of MS Application Threat Modelling tool from the Application Consulting & Engineering team.

To down-load it go here if you want more information go here.

Yep BarCamp Los Angeles is over and all I can say is wow! This was great, why was it great? The people and the people and the people… you get it the people that put on this event took a great idea and executed it in LA extremely well and timed it perfectly. The timing is\was just before the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego so there were more people in town for BarCamp from out of town then there would have been normally.

It was quite surprising how the event shaped up, there was far less coding content then I expected so I never offered to show ATLAS but I was asked to demo Office 12 so I did sign-up for 15 minute slot but alas no one showed up to see it which was good with me as though I used Office all the time I have never demoed it so it would have not been a good experience for me.

I hope the full list of sessions get posted so I can see how much I missed but I did get many interesting topics. One of them looks to me a life changing topic… Panel presentation with Mistress Chi Chi (AKA Carmen De Jesus) did a great topic on GTD (Getting Things Done). The concepts in GTD I thing could be a great way for me to conduct my life. I will try to document how my experience with GTD go.

I hope to get the majority of people who were at Barcamp LA down to CodeCamp San Diego in June.

OK so this was quite a random post about my experience at BarCamp but my mind is still just swimming with the experience.

Check out the Barcamp LA event so far… what a great event!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampla

In my new job I have had some issues in trying to find the time to say as up on the breath of topics that I am interested in so I have started to down-load several a podcasts again. I use to down-load .NET Rocks all the time but I had stopped for some reason a while back so I went back and while I love Carl and Richard’s show it quite often covers content that I know quite well so I have now found through .NET Rocks two new shows that I am currently enamored with. The first is a Pwop production called HanselMinutes which is hosted by Carl but features Uber geek Scott Hanselman talking about cool geek stuff! The other is Polymorphic where Craig Shoemaker has some great content about .NET and a lot on Ajax.

I am sure there are other good podcasts out there but for the last two weeks these have been keeping me happy. Please let me know if other podcasts that are good.

The user groups of LA have decided to start a new series of events called the NET Masters Lecture Series. The first event will be March 25th with Kevin McNeish as the presenter. It sounds like a great event I hope we can fit all the people who will want to come! Sign-up quick!

For all the information go to http://www.ladotnet.org/EventDescription.asp?115

Microsoft is giving any one who answers 3 questions about Windows licensing a free USB Drive. I don’t know how big it is but hey free is free.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mysterysolved/corp/default.mspx

I am sorry for anyone who dose not care but I want to explain while I will be flaky for the next few days. Yesterday as I was leaving the office I got a call from my wife that the house had been broken in to some time during the day. Wow what crapy thing, everyone is OK and that is the most important thing but now I will get to deal with all the crap around this event. They got my wife's laptop all of her jewelry which most of is family related, they may have gotten some other small things but nothing much. It was a grab what is easy to grab and run type of thing, they missed so much that I feel lucky! They had all the time they wanted to do what they wanted.

Any way I will end my winning now but I hop you all have good locks and keep you stuff out of site and locked up if you can.

The Secure Software Forum is hosting two free event in Irvine and San Diego on March 8th and March 10th. I can’t be at either event but wow it sounds like a good event. Please let me know if you do go what you think.