I learned from Carl, as others this morning, that the show that we taped late Friday night in the studio might have been lost due to a dead motherboard. Carl just informed me, though, that the show was recovered. Stay tuned to this post for the show to be downloadable.

Our first Boston Code Brew starts on Wednesday, January 19 at 6:00 pm. We are meeting at Airpath Wireless, Inc. for our first meeting. Airpath is located at: Airpath Wireless, Inc.950 Winter Street, Suite 2410Waltham, MA Directions: From Rt. 128: From the North, take Exit 27B to Winter Street. From the South, take Exit 27B...

The .NET Rocks show tonight is actually at 7:30 9:00 PM Eastern Time. It's a moving target! Final Update: Sorry folks, it is at 9:00 PM after all ... told you it was a moving target! I am actually going to be down there live in the studio.

Last week I installed the new Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta on my laptop which runs Windows XP Pro SP2. Now, remember, I run as non-admin every day on my machine (don't you? and, if not, why not?!). I used Aaron Margosis' excellent script tool MakeMeAdmin to temporarily assign my low-privileged user to the Administrator group to install the...

[By way of Thom Robbins] With the holidays over it’s time to get back to business! Of course the business is Code Camp 3: The Madness! We are still looking for speakers and attendees.   I have posted the current session list to here. Keep an eye on this site for updates the sessions and agenda.   Keep the sessions coming! Here is...

Here are some notable .NET events happening in the Boston area for January: Downtown Boston Beantown.NET User Group, January 6, 5:30-7:30, featuring Richard Hale Shaw on "Implementing Patterns in C#". You can find more information from Sam Gentile, who leads the Beantown group. Boston .NET User Group, January 12, 5:00-6:30, featuring Michael...

I am pleased to announce and give an update on the new group I and a few others have been forming since November. On January 19, 2005, we will have our first Boston Code Brew meeting. What is this group? Here is a description from our new Yahoo group (codebrew_boston): A group of developers in the Boston area that get together...

Julie has posted the list of new additions to the INETA Speaker Bureau for 2005: Don Kiely Kathleen Dollard Joel Semeniuk Russ Nemhauser Stephen Forte Jim Duffy Phil Weber Craig Utley Congratulations to all!

[By way of Valery Pryamikov] Gary McGraw writes today in sc-l mailing list: The sixth article in my IEEE Security & Privacy magazine series called "Building Security In" is on Penetration Testing.  This article was co-authored by Brad Arkin (symantec) and Scott Stender.  As a service to the community, we're making advance copies...

Thom Robbins has mentioned that Code Camp III: The Madness will be returning to Microsoft's Waltham, MA office the weekend of March 12-13th. There is a call for speakers. I was part of Code Camp II, and it was a great success (with at least 400 people attending). This is a free conference with lots of great content in an informal setting...

Over the last couple of nights I had attended and spoke at the Boston C# User Group (on Tuesday) and the Boston .NET User Group (Wednesday). Each meeting featured a holiday potluck dinner at the end. I spoke to the Boston C# Group on Development Strategies in a more interactive/discussion format. I presented information on Test Driven...

I have posted my presentation and demo code from the SQL Server 2005 Service Broker talk I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference 2004 in Des Moines, Iowa on December 3. You can get them from these links:    HDC2004_SQLServer2005ServiceBroker.pdf   H DC2004_SQLServer2005ServiceBroker.zip If you were at the...

I will be heading to Des Moines, Iowa this afternoon to speak at the Heartland Developers Conference (HDC) tomorrow, Dec. 3. I will be speaking on "SQL Server 2005 Service Broker". I am really looking forward to this trip as it takes me back to my childhood in some ways as I was born and grew up in the midwest a couple of states below Iowa...

I found the book Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freemen, Kathy Sierra, and Bert Bates a couple of days ago, ordered it, and received it last night. I have already read a couple of chapters and really like the format. The "Head First" series is something new from O'Reilly. This book, like the others in their series,...

Jon Udell has posted links to topics and his interview with Ward Cunningham and Jack Greenfield on Software Factories. I had a chance to check out the interview after I got home last night and it is definitely worth a listen. Ward, of course, is known for his work with Wiki and other early patterns and architecture work. Jack, plus others,...