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.NET Valley Meeting: Thursday July 20th

The next .NET Valley meeting will be held on Thursday July 20th at Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke PA. A map of the campus can be found here. We will meet in building 7, room 703. The event will begin at 6pm. This will be an INETA sponsored event.

Presenting for .NET Valley will be Julie Lerman, a Microsoft MVP, leader of the Vermont .NET User Group, and brain power behind the Data Farm.

5 Supposedly Scary Things about .NET (That Don’t Have to Be) (6:00pm - 7:45pm)
There are a number of topics that many developers typically tend to avoid when learning .NET. But they really don’t need to be so intimidating. This session will explore five of these daunting challenges - delegates, reflection, threading, Code Access Security (CAS) and declarative programming. The goal of this talk is to give attendees a high level, conceptual understanding of these topics – enough to recognize where they can help you in your application development and confidence to dig deeper on your own.

Ever receive those spam messages saying that you can save up to 50% on your Microsoft licensing? Well, you can. Microsoft has a website for submitting rebates and for viewing licensing incentives. To see what I mean, visit MicrosoftIncentives.com.

HD Moore, a popular hacker, has recently updated his controversial exploit framework called Metasploit Framework. This framework has plug-in modules to allow users to test everything from their browsers to their operating system and from certain applications to their web server. One of the most interesting modules is the CSS exploit module in which HD Moore created a web test for. You can try out the test here. Also, check out HD Moore’s Month of Browser Bugs blog at http://browserfun.blogspot.com/.

I’m selling two domain names I’ve had for awhile. They are courseknowledge.com and courseknowledge.net. I have them up on eBay, but if anyone is interested in them, ping me. You can view my eBay listing on these here.

Julie Lerman pointed out a great blog series about starting up a user group. The series was put together by Donald Belcham of the Edmonton .NET User Group. You can see the series here.

Go figure, the 2007 Office System might be delayed again according to eWeek. That will be a bummer.

Wow! We definitely got lucky. I have placed three flood albums on my site. Many of the best pictures aren’t online because we were more worried about saving valuables, houses, and stores that we didn’t have time to break and take pictures. Between sand bags and wet shoes, I was able to snap a few:

For those of you that are familiar with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area of Northeastern Pennsylvania, be sure to visit www.wnep.com for pictures and river levels. Up to this point, no storm in the history of the Wyoming Valley has been more devastating to low-lying and mountains in this are than this storm. The creek behind my house is still 5 feet below the first floor level. However, folks in the “Back Mountain” region aren’t so lucky. The Huntsville Damn by Penn State Lehman is being watched carefully as there may be a potential breech in the damn wall. The river is supposed to crest at or around the stage of the 1972 Agnes flood.

DotNetSlackers announced an ATLAS contest back in May and I just discovered it now. :-) If you build a cool Atlas control or extender then you might be eligible to win a free subscription of MSDN Premium. To find out more about the contest, click here.

I’ve added another item to the HTML Reference Guide on my website. This section lists XHTML compliant symbols and extended character set with their appropriate XHTML codes. You can check out this installment by clicking here.