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Wow, it has been a couple days since I blogged last.  Last week was incredibly busy, and I have a lot of stuff to blog about, so expect lots new entries, with one big scoop that is pretty exciting.

Quick summary of last week.  Tuesday night I did my first presentation of the Guidance Automation Toolkit at the N3UG meeting and they even recorded it.  Unfortunately, my voice was shot, so I don’t know how that turned out.  Plus, because they were recording it (and it was Valentine’s Day) I kept the presentation to 1 hour, which means a lot of material was not covered.  But, if you happen to be going to the NYC .Net Code Camp, I will have a little more time, and I’ll have an updated version of the presentation finished.  Plus, it looks like I’ll be giving a second session at the NYC Code Camp, Intro to Web Services.

Wednesday I traveled out to Redmond from NJ, and all I can say is “Flying Human Sardine Can”.  Thursday and Friday I was in the SQL building working with some of the XML team on an article and some sample code that will be released in about a month.  Can say exactly what, yet, but it will be some pretty cool XML stuff that we will add to the open source XML MVP project, so that others can enhance it even more.  What I can say is that the XML team gets the concept of community.  Oh, I did get to finally meet Erik Meijer, which was very cool.  Thursday night, Don Smith went out to take in some of Seattle’s music scene, which is a blog post all on its own.  Saturday I took the early flight back to NJ, but it still basically kills a whole day in travel.

Published Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:02 PM by donxml
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About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.
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