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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:31 AM

Code Camp Feed Back

Dave and I have received some great constructive critism from several sources.  Jonathan Bates had some excellent suggestions for next year.  Even though Code Camp is behind us the work hasn't stop.  Currently, I am working with ConsulTech
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Monday, August 29, 2005 3:18 PM

Jacksonville Code Camp Reflection and Movies

Our very own Andrew Connell has posted some reflections and videos of our First Code camp.  Check it out http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2005/08/29/1962.aspx  
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:56 PM

ConsulTech Really Comes through for Jacksonville Code Camp

Robert and Nanneta of http://www.consultech.org/ really went the extra mile to provide us with shirts for Code Camp.  ConsulTech had shirts made for all our volunteers and speakers.  ConsulTech went that extra mile and had some really nice
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:14 PM

Model-View-Controller Pattern

Well I never realized that good ASP.NET design had a official name but it does.  Microsoft calls it the Model-View-Controller Pattern. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpatterns/html/ImpMVCinASP.asp Basically
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Monday, August 15, 2005 10:09 PM

JaxDug Geek Laager

Joe Healy has hosted a few Geek Laager.  In fact http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=64.  Maybe we should look at organizing some of these for JaxDug.  Perhaps we can get together once a month and discuss a topic. 
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Monday, August 15, 2005 9:19 PM

Blog Search Tools

This is an interesting http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/link_experiment_results_part_iii/ blog post comparing Blog Search Engines.  Embrace and Extend might be holding true.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:22 PM

MSN Attending Jacksonville Code Camp

MSN has called us and they are sending three Software Engineers to our Code Camp!  How is that for showing us some love.  They will be addressing Security, Testing and Entertainment.  Now for the bigger news.  MSN meaning Microsoft
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:34 PM

See Why You Must Attenda Code Camp! (MOVIE)

http://www.netpubclub.net/Portals/0/Tampa/CodecampTampa2005.wmv This is a movie Joe Healy put together of the Tampa Code Camp.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:01 PM

DotNetNuke Book Review

http://aspalliance.com/693 A good detailed review of the Wrox DotNetNuke Book.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:37 PM

Jacksonville Code Camp Welcomes Tim Walton

Today we got word that Tim Walton of Microsoft would be able to speak at our code camp.  Tim   Walton   Premeir Support Engineer -  Microsoft 5 Years at Microsoft Corporation as a PREMEIR ADC and Rapid Response Enginner. Responsible
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:30 PM

DotNetRocks Road Show

Well turns as it turns out Jacksonville isn't good enough for Carl and Richard.  They've decided to head to Orlando instead b/c it will draw a bigger crowd.  Well we wish them the best and hope Mickey doesn't steel the RV!
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Monday, August 08, 2005 10:38 PM

What Kind Of Coffee are you?

OK this is a little scary.  The first time I met Joe Healy I liked the guy.  We seemed a lot a like.  So I was reading his blog and he had this what kind of coffee test are you?  Well guess what?  We match.  DOH! You
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Monday, August 08, 2005 10:30 PM

Arlen Ness Powered By DotNetNuke

http://company.arlenness.com/ is using DotNetNuke to power their web site.
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Monday, August 08, 2005 10:25 PM

Scheduling Emails

http://www.azamsharp.net/Schedule_Email_Aspnet.htm You have to read this guy's intro, it really crack me up.  I'm guessing his next project is an auto-responder.  
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Monday, August 08, 2005 10:18 PM

DotNetRocks Road Show

Today I spoke to Mr. Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks and confirmed that Jacksonville, FL is now an official stop on their road show tour.  This will be on a Saturday and both Carl and Richard will be presenting.  They will have lots of cool swag
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Monday, August 08, 2005 10:12 PM

Smart Client Web Casts

http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/devdays/sessions/ is a series of four web casts on the smart client sample app, Issue Vission.  The web casts include a general into about smart clients, securtity, data access, and deployment. 
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Monday, August 08, 2005 9:40 PM

Big Thanks To Panera Bread

Panera Bread is officially providing breakfast for our Code Camp on August 27th.  They will be supplying bagels and coffee.  Tonight David and I got to meet with the Panera's manager Neil and he was glad to support our group www.jaxdug.com. 
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Friday, August 05, 2005 7:51 PM

Microsoft Project Strider

Microsoft has built a network of Windows XP Honey Pots.  These XP boxes are running as Virtual Machines.  The network is being used for security research.  The machines have each been patched to various degrees and have special software
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Friday, August 05, 2005 2:21 PM

CD And DVD Emulation

Have you ever run into a case where you downloaded an ISO say from your MSDN subsription and you didn't want to burn a CD or DVD just to install the software.  I found this great utility called Virtual Daemon Manager http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php which
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:29 PM

SOA: Deciding Between Web Services and Remoting

On a recent project I had a choice between using Web Services and Remoting.  http://www.thinktecture.com/Resources/RemotingFAQ/default.html is an excellent resource about remoting.  In the end I ended up choosing Web Services but I think
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:26 PM

Web Service Studio 2.0

Today I was given a wsdl file b/c the client didn't publish there web services.  As a result I had to generate my proxy class.  I found this neat tool http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=65a1d4ea-0f7a-41bd-8494-e916ebc4159c to
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:14 PM

IE7 CSS2 Compliant

According to this blog post http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx IE7 is going a long way to support CSS correctly.
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Monday, August 01, 2005 11:22 PM

Stored Procs Vs Dynamic SQL

There are many great topics of debate in software development.  DataSets Vs. Objects, Smart Clients Vs. Web Apps, and Stored Procs Vs. Dynamic SQL.  Many have argued that writing stored procedures is rigid and doesn't allow for an easy way to
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Monday, August 01, 2005 10:19 PM

Jax Code Camp Presentation Tips

So a few weeks ago David Strommer and Andrew Connell and I went to Tampa Code Camp to speak.  While there and attending presentations I paid close attention to what made good presentations really stand out.  The following tips
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Monday, August 01, 2005 9:58 PM

DotNetNuke TM Toughness

Shaun Walker and the DotNetNuke Core Team has released a guide http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Portals/25/Documents/DotNetNuke%20Trademark%20Policy.pdf clearly stating how the name DotNetNuke and abbreviation DNN should be used.  For example,
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Monday, August 01, 2005 9:55 PM

Jax Code Camp Special

Code Camp Lodging Special Best Western has extended Code Camp attendees a special event rate of $56.00 per night. To make reservations call Best Western at (800) 842-1348 and ask for the "Code Camp Special". Rooms are availiable with 1 or 2 Queen
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Monday, August 01, 2005 10:24 AM

RSS Feeder .NET

I ran across this http://www.codeproject.com/smartclient/rssfeeder.asp very nice Open Source RSS aggregator.  As open source all source code for the project is available.  Furthure more, the application can be run as a stand alone
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