Monday, January 20, 2003

GotDotNet Launches in Japan http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ja/ Neat-o! 5:02:09 PM    comment []

HOW TOs HOW TO: Know when Microsoft has posted new "how to" or KB articles on your favorite technology: Sign up for kbAlertz, which is run by the ever popular Dave Wanta (who also runs 123aspx.com).  It will send you an e-mail whenever Microsoft posts a new KB on the technologies that you care about.  BTW, they just dumped in a ton of new .NET related how-to articles.  I've set up a page to list them. [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog] Sweet Jesus! Talk about a brain dump! 1:03:47 PM    comment []

Pingback v1.0 http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback I'm always the last to hear about cool stuff. 9:22:02 AM    comment []

Sam Gentile Speaking at Win-Dev Speaking at Win-Dev. I am real pleased to announce that I will speaking at Win-Dev this year with some very smart and talented people who I really respect and admire. I will be giving two talks on COM Interop and one on Managed C++.  I want to especially thank Don and Ingo, who personally pushed me to do this and go beyond the local area. [Sam Gentile's Weblog] Hooray! The list of speakers for Win-Dev looks very impressive. 8:47:22 AM    comment []

INETA Speaking of .NET, I've been most impressed by INETA (International .NET Association), a group of .NET User's Groups. They've been bringing world-class speakers to the local Silicon Valley .NET user group (folks that you usually have to pay $1000 to hear). This group started without real support from Microsoft, although now Microsoft is supporting them. Here's a GotDotNet article about INETA. (GotDotNet.com is a Web site produced by Microsoft). [The Scobleizer Weblog] Thanks for the kind words. We're working incredibly hard to make INETA more helpful to its members. I am very proud to be a member of the infrastructure committee. Like any infrastructure-related working group, our role is to resolve technical issues and implement solutions. So far, we've helped numerous .NET user groups achieve their technical milestones. However, we have a lot of work left to do (i.e. increased i18n support, SOAP endpoints, etc.). Of course, the hardest part about our work is finding the time to implement solutions since we serve INETA in a volunteer capacity. :-) 8:15:54 AM    comment []

Iraq Anti-War Protest My friend Kenny Carruthers has posted some great photos of the anti-war protest held yesterday in San Francisco: http://pictures.kennyc.com/show.php?dir=war-protest Some of the signs kill me (see "A Clear Point of View"). 12:02:42 AM    comment []