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A lot of people in the Boston Area are continuing to step up to the plate. Robert is starting his Boston Code Brew Jan 19th. We also have our monthly Nerd/Geek Dinner tomorrow night.

I am doing 4 talks at Code Camp III: 300 eXtreme .NET – Extreme Programming and Unit Testing for .NET Developers Part 1 – Extreme Programming practices such as Refactoring, Unit Testing and Continous Integration have now become mainstream. This code-intensive session shows you to have to use XP practices with VS.NET 2003 and tools...

I'm dismayed that my huge high score was beaten by Robert (by one point!) and Neil

Tonight's the night for all the action. Join Beantown.NET for Richard Hale Shaw on Implementing Design Patterns in C#. Richard is the guy who taught me Visual C++/COM/ATL in the late 80's and 90's and is one of the best speakers on the planet, as well as being a dear friend (and my VSLive! Advanced C# Track Chair). If that's not enough, we have...

As predicted, the more I look at Python, the more I like and discover. I think I now know why I had an (unfair) bias against late-binding languages. This may be even more important than my “Smalltalk and My Late Binding Revelation” that I had in 1992. In chapter 1 of his excellent book, Mark goes into a subsection entitled...

Yet another snow storm dumped another 7-8 inches yesterday and made a 20 mile trip home yesterday from the 128-belt an hour and 1/2 hell with lots of spun out cars, and unplowed highways. This morning, it's my weekly time solo with Heather while Sue takes Jonathan off to a class he attends. I am just floored by where Heather is at this age. She...

After coming home from work today, I had a copy of PrimalCode lying around as an alternative UI for .NET so I installed it. As I installed it, I found that it was an editor for many “scripting languages” of which Python was one. So while I was at it, I thought I would try Mark's first program in Dive Into Python, an odbchelper...

Important note: A sizable storm and an Severe Weather Alert have been posted for tomorrow night. We are moving Richard's Design Patterns Beantown.NET presentation to Monday night at 5:30 PM.

It's now official. I have been awarded with MVP status for another year in .NET/C#. I'm really proud to be a member of this awesome team. One of the best benefits is going shopping!!

In order to start my Python immersion (hey, I'm a few days early), I bought and started reading and using Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python. It's got great reviews and more importantly, I needed a no-bullshit, to-the-point introduction. I have no problem learning with the ActiveState's ActivePython (as well as others) to learn as they have more...

I reported on Christmas night that I had been unable to get VSTS Dec CTP (aka Beta 2) to install in it's default configuration. I later stated that I had filed a bug and there was a workaround to manually wipe out the left-over VS8 registry key settings. It turns out the VSTS Beta 2 un-install does not uninstall a lot of stuff in the...

With apologies to Mr. Frampton, our Boston area has an amazing list of activities that Robert has listed here and repeated here after I mention Boston's very first Code Brew that Robert is running which I highly support. Downtown Boston Beantown.NET User Group, January 6, 5:30-7:30, featuring Richard Hale Shaw on "Implementing Patterns in C#"...

The snow I mentioned in White Christmas++, has turned into a foot on the ground overnight. It was near blizzard conditions last night as we were driving home from Sue's folks last night. It's hard to know what to say about the earthquake disaster in Asia except to really realize that this is one world and figure out how to help. Julie is doing...

I see that John has been doing some interesting things with Python. Following the advice of the Pragmatic Programmers, who in their classic must-read book, “The Pragmatic Programmer,” “Learn at least one new language a year,” I have decided to pick Python as the one I will learn and use in 2005. I am sure it will expand...