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  • Sep 4: MVC: Free Yourself from Web Forms!

    Meeting Sponsor: MaconIT September's Presentation: MVC: Free Yourself from Web Forms! by Joey Beninghove Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00! Location: Markel Plaza 4600 Cox Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 [ map ] Please take a moment to register so we'll know...

  • For User Group Leaders: Get free stuff from Manning Pubs

    From the Manning web site : Manning Publications User Group Program Manning Publications is proud to support User Groups worldwide with review copies of Manning titles, donations of promotional items, UG member discounts on books, newsletters, updates, and contests. Want to register your group? Groups...

  • My Love Affair with FireFox 3

    I get a pretty large number of hits to my old post on Speeding Up Firefox the Right Way . So much so that Brendan changed the algorithm we use to determine the top blog posts on CodeBetter.com! At least the ad revenue from that post helps pay for our servers and the large amount of bandwidth all of our...

  • Aug 7: SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers by Joshua Carlisle

      Meeting Sponsor: UDig Techforce Solutions August's Presentation: SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers by Joshua Carlisle Thursday, August 7, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00! Location: Markel Plaza 4600 Cox Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 [ map ] Registration is not required, but...

  • Disable TFS 2008 AutoConnect

    I'm not a big fan of having Visual Studio 2008 automatically trying to connect to my TFS server. Sometimes you just want to open VS and bang out some code! I've found the registry hack for TFS 2008 is a bit different than 2005.  It's simple enough, though. In the registry editor, navigate...

  • Richmond .NET UG: July 10, 2008 Meeting

    Kevin Hazzard presents Accessing Web Services from Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Thursday, July 10, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00! Location: Markel Plaza 4600 Cox Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 [ map ] Registration is not required, but please take a moment to register so we'll know how many...

  • iPhone theme for BlackBerry

      I found a cool iPhone-like theme for my BlackBerry 8830 called bPhone for BlackBerry .  Please do NOT leave comments saying that the iPhone is better. Work pays for my BlackBerry - FREE is better than iPhone. Thank you.  :)

  • .NET P2P web search

    Faroo is P2P web search built with .NET.  They only require .NET 2.0 so it wasn't built using WCF PeerChannel.  They have add-ins for IE and Firefox. Very interesting.  I wonder if peer-to-peer searching will work.

  • Check out WeeWar.com

    A few people have found out about WeeWar.com from my blog. I can tell since I see how many people have joined from my referral link.** Weewar is an addictive turn-based strategy game. The cool part - the entire game is an AJAX app that you can play from any standard browser.  Units include ground...

  • Old Executives Never Get Fired

    Mark Griffin, chief investment officer will leave the company to “pursue other career interests.” Dan Sheehan, senior VP of portfolio management, will replace him on an interim basis. Like Douglas MacArthur's quote about old soldiers , corporate executives never get fired, they just "pursue...

  • Is there going to be a surcharge on everything?

    From Holly Springs, GA : The surging price of gasoline has come to this: a "fuel surcharge" on your next speeding ticket. Drivers caught speeding in this north Atlanta suburb soon will have to pay an extra $12 — to cover $4-a-gallon gas costs for the police officers who stop them. According...

  • vOptimizer reduces VMs to smallest size

    Just found this cool little program, vOptimizer . It compresses virtual machines to their smallest size with one click. vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a virtual machine’s virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible while optimizing Windows guest...

  • The World Isn't Flat

    A recent consumer research report by BBMG notes: "While price (58% very important) and quality (66% very important) are paramount, convenience (34% very important) has been edged out by more socially relevant attributes: where a product is made (44% very important), how energy efficient it is (41...

  • Richmond .NET User Group Meeting June 5, 2008

    Justin Etheridge presents Functional Programming Features in C# 3.0 Thursday 5 June 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00! Location: Markel Plaza 4600 Cox Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 [ map ] LTL Consulting is bringing Magianno's Little Italy and will be giving away one copy of Resharper...

  • MVP Renewed Again!

    Just a quick note that I was awarded MVP again for another year.  This is my fourth year as an MVP and I'm looking forward to another wonderful year of helping the developer community!
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