Scott Hanselman IM’d me this Onion piece and I just had to share it. I don’t want to spoil it with quotes; just read it and tell me if you don’t die laughing.
OK, one quote:
“To Ron’s credit, it was one helluva way to go out,” human resources manager Gail Everts said. “Ron clearly spent a lot of time on that presentation. If the subject matter weren’t so heavy, we’d probably use it to train his replacement.”
Doh! It was all about the outer <form runat="server"> that I wasn't using on my web pages, but just left 'cuz "it wasn't hurting anything." Removing the outer form let the inner Google site search form work and wa la -- site searching on sellsbrothers.com (and it only took 10 years : ). Thanks to Nic Wise for his diagnosis!
Paul Ballard provides a nice summary of the Indigo Day at VSLive. I especially like the acronyms that the Indigo boys were using; the ABCs of Indigo and the CIA of security are damned easy to remember!
″David Chappell provides an architectural overview of ‘Indigo,’ Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. The paper covers Indigo’s relationship to existing distributed application technologies in the .NET Framework, the basics of creating and consuming Indigo services, and an overview of Indigo’s capabilities, including security, reliable messaging, and transaction support.”
The first article of a new Indigo programming model since PDC03 (and hopefully the one that’ll stick : ).
It’s become apparent to me that for Microsoft-focused non-Microsoft hosted conferences, VSLive is it. I know that in the past that they’ve had financial problems, but I haven’t heard rumors of that for a while. Even more importantly, their attendance numbers and their coverage is top notch for 3rd party Windows developer conferences. If I was going to speak at a wide-reach Windows developer conference that wasn’t a TechEd or a PDC, VSLive would be it.
