September 2008 Blog Posts
Well; in a few months anyway. A month or so ago I saw a tweet flit past asking for someone who has ASP.NET security knowledge; someone pointed the user my way. I assumed it was someone just asking for advice, so I sent off something along the lines of "What do you need to know?". It turns out the recipient was part of Wrox Press and he was after knowledge, on the shape of a book. So after some pondering and pointing out I thought it had been done to death we both came up with, what...
I think Craig has way too much time on his hands; but one thing occurred to me con·quis·ta·dor one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Conquistador (accessed: September 07, 2008). So a large country who set out to loot, pillage and wipe out smaller rivals. Really not what MS should be associating with themselves ... Technorati Tags: Gates,Seinfeld,Microsoft Advert
Developer Day voting is open and there are a large number of sessions you can choose from. A while back I threw out a challenge to the girl geek community to try to encourage more female speakers and we ended up with three potential speakers from the fairer sex, one from an MVP, Bev Hatchard who we persuaded to speak at DDD Scotland and is now bitten by the presenting bug, one from Chris Hart on virtual worlds and a bunch of submissions from Helen Emerson. Now the competition was going to end when voting ended; but as Bev...