Are you passionate about the presentation layer? Do you live and breathe for the perfect UI? Are you a component junkie? Are you a wordsmith for all things technical? Do you love to write code? If you anser YES to any of the above, and you are looking for a career at one of the hottest software companies in the world, take a look and see if anything ......

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No, she does not have a blog yet (I am sure Jeff will create one for her eventually), but Siena Riley Beres loves to read about .NET and XML and all the things her Dad just loves! Check out the gallery ... http://www.vbasp.net/photos... ......

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So I am back to blogging ... but I am going to be posting different types of things in my site at http://www.vbasp.net. I'll be talking about what I am doing in the community, for INETA, at Infragistics and other cool stuff ......

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In the latest samples browser for NetAdvantage for ASP.NET, the Portfolio Manager samples have been updated with the Office 2007 Black and the Office 2007 Blue styles. Here are a few screen shots of what they look like ... http://www.vbasp.net/blogs/... ......

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I get asked alot about converting code from C# to VB ... below is a few converters that I know about. 1) Converter.zip - an VS.NET Add-In that converts code blocks or entire projects from C# to VB.NET 2) Reflector - a standalone app that will decompile from any langauge to another language (http://www.aisto.com/roede... 3) http://authors.aspalliance.... ......

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Today was a 6 hour to San Francisco to speak at Bay.NET, Oliver Nguyen's INETA group. This is a very well run group, all kinds of meetings, sub-groups, and cooperation with the entire development community in the Bay Area. I spoke on n-Tier development and .NET, using all kinds of great technologies like application blocks, WS-Security and custom business ......

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I am sitting here at the La Quinta Inn in Austin, TX watching Oprah. It's “Back to School Makeovers” with Tyra Banks, great stuff. Anyway, tonight I speak at Scott Bellware's .NET User Group on ASP.NET Tips and Tricks, should be a great night. I was thinking about Friday night, when Sheri and I were at Chevy's having some great Mexican food. ......

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My fellow INETA Academic Committee member Andrew Flick put his thoughts in writing about the Imagine Cup regional competitions held on March 17th at 4 locations in the USA. The 8 winners from the regionals compete at Tech-Ed for the USA Finals, with 1 winner representing the Stars and Stripes at the World Finals in Brazil in July. Andrew has some gripes ......

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This is my first blog! Thanks to Jeff, the geek with the blogs, for getting all of this going. I am looking forward to blogging useful and fun information about everything technology (and about me too, of course). Jeff and I are at PDC, and in about 20 minutes we are heading to an academic meeting with Microsoft at the Bonavanture Hotel in sunny Los ......

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Today at the MVP seminar I got my first look at Longhorn ... and all I can say is WOW, Awesome, Cool, Unreal.  This is going to be an awesome week of Longhorn, Whitbey and Yukon.  At the moment, I am too into the Marlins - Yankees game to think about much else right now.  Go Marlins!!!

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Ken Getz spoke at the user group last nite, and it was awesome. The talk was on XML and DataSets, a topic that was chosen by the group. Ken was in town for the Advisor-Access DevCon in Ft. Lauderdale, so it was awesome that he thought about speaking at the UG while he was here. 65 geeks in attendance, fun had by all! Thanks to INETA for sponsoring another ......

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