Awhile back, Scott Guthrie had posted a blog entry about various progress icons and indicators. Here is the list that he posted:

In some circumstances, you may need to test .NET web services outside of the localhost, but via the browser. By default, this is disabled in the machine.config. If you were to attempt to browse to a service from a different PC or to access a service under a host name, you’d receive a message stating: “The test form is only available for requests from the local machine.” To circumvent this issue, open up the web.config and add:

I ran across a tool created by Zeddy at http://geeks.netindonesia.net/blogs/zeddy/archive/2007/04/25/Visual-Studio-Plugin-for-Community-Server.aspx. It allows you to select some code and copy it to Community Server preserving the format. Looks pretty cool.

TECHbash 2007 was a success! We had over 100 attendees throughout the day. This was really cool given the area that we’re in. Hopefully all of the attendees come out to each of our future events. More details about our June event will be announced next week.

Tomorrow, .NET Valley will host TECHbash 2007 at Luzerne County Community College. So far, we have over 150 registered for the event. We anticipate that by the end of the day, we’ll be nearing 180. If you’re anywhere near Northeastern Pennsylvania tomorrow, you’ll definitely want to stop by. For the developer community, we have a SharePoint 2007 talk by Rachel Appel, a Real World AJAX and Preview to Silverlight talk by me, and a WPF deep dive talk by Ambrose Little and Ed Blankenship from Infragistics. We’ll also have some great IT Pro talks including Windows Server 2008, Vista, and IP Telephony. Swag? We’ve got it — and you’ll want it. The first 120 registered attendees that sign-in tomorrow will receive a free SWAGbag containing free mags from MSDN, CoDe Magazine, and ASP.NET Pro. We’ll be handing out official “TECHbash 2007” t-shirts and .NET Valley pens. CACert will be on hand to provide security certificates and points towards certificates. Plus, we’ve got food. When was the last time you attended a conference and had Starbucks coffee? That’s right, Dickson City Starbucks has donated coffee for our event.

With Web 2.0 getting more and more publicity, you need to jump on the web 2.0 bandwagon now. AJAX and Silverlight can help you. I came across a posting on CIO.com called the Web 2.0 Rap (by Phillip Gordon):

Yes its true. Many companies such as Ford are coming out with web enabled products. In fact, Ford’s product will run Windows Auto. However, this product takes the cake: http://www.autonetmobile.com/wp/service. AutoNet Mobile allows multiple devices to be connected. Therefore, I can have my XBox in my SUV as well as my laptop and cell phone. All three will be online. How cool is that?

I forgot in my previous posts to mention that the Northeastern Pennsylvania TECHbash 2007 will be on May 19th at Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, PA. To register for the event, please visit http://techbash.com/registration.

We are almost 2 weeks away from TECHbash 2007. It’s kind of hard to believe how much hype is surrounding this event. We’ve seen our registration double in the past week alone. If you haven’t registered for this event yet, be sure to register…

Awhile back, Scott W. had mentioned Twitter in a conversation. Today I cam across the website and decided to setup an account. We’ll see how well it goes.