User groups are constantly looking for good speakers. We have been lucky with CINNUG to get some really good speakers in. But speakers can be hard to come by.
CodeZone (www.codezone.com) is a resource for developers to get hooked up with learning resources, including a local user group. One of the features it has included is also a regional speakers bureau. Like the Speakers bureau for INETA this list is a resource for user group to get into contact with speakers for your group or event.
I’ve been using since 1999. I’m not a heavy user (I’ve only had 30 or so transactions), but I’ve always been a big fan…until now. I am selling my LS 800 tablet and thought EBay would help me out. So, I put my listing with a Buy Now. As you may have saw in one of my last posts, with using the Buy Now I attracted the attention of someone (or multiple people) down in Nigeria.
A few months back I was working on a side project with a co-worker that dealt with web services and stumbled onto an interesting behavior of Synchronous web service calls in relation to timeouts. It seems that the timeout property on the SoapHttpClientProtocol class (which is used as the base class for your web services when VS.Net generates a proxy class for you) acts much like the ADO.Net CommandTimeout property on the command objects.