Wow, for once a really productive day without lots of interruptions.

if Four Hour Work Week T. Ferris mentions WaMu. Wonder what he thinks of them now

The E-Myth Revisited was a great read. I highly recommend it. The best price I can find is here http://ping.fm/TwZQE

http://ping.fm/p/MjAct – Ok I had to share this image. Pretty Funny.

Jetbrains User Group Sponsoring! AWESOME!!!

I just received this email from my contact at JetBrains:

A quick update on the JetBrains User Group Giveaway program…

1) We’re happy to extend this giveaway for another year – at least until the end of 2009. Your work in the community is something we all admire, and we’d like to thank you for your efforts.

2) We are expanding the program to support a lot more User Groups – .NET, Java, Groovy, Ruby, Google, and Agile. If you want us to support any other groups, let me know!

3) We’re also expanding our offer – each month, your speaker and winner can choose their prize: a. ReSharper Personal License, b. dotTrace Personal License, c. IntelliJ IDEA Personal License, d. TeamCity Build Agent (for our Continuous Integration and Build Server), e. Ruby IDE Personal License (name coming soon!):)

4) We’re automating the monthly giveaway, so that your members receive licenses faster.

In the next 2 days, you’ll receive an invitation to collaborate on our Google Spreadsheet. Each month, instead of sending me an email with your winner and speaker information, just add the info to our community spreadsheet.

We’ll send out licenses twice per week, and mark all the licenses that have already been sent – so you’ll know when yours are on the way. To see an example, check out: http://ping.fm/ZKpEM

Overall, we’re working with more than 350 groups globally, and we’ve already given away more than 2000 licenses of ReSharper and IntelliJ IDEA!

I’m hoping that by automating the monthly giveaway, I’ll be able to spend more time finding new ways to support your group – including getting involved in more events!

5) If you know of any events taking place over the next *year* that you would like us to support with licenses, send a speaker to, or attend as an exhibitor – let me know soon – I’m building our schedule over the next couple of weeks.

If you have any questions about any of the above, don’t hesitate to ask.

Best regards,

Britt King
Marketing Manager
JetBrains

JetBrains creates some top tools for developers. If you have a user group and don’t have JetBrains sponsoring it you should send Britt King a shout you can Twitter him here http://ping.fm/mmygv

My shared items on Google Reader! http://ping.fm/gBPDa

just got back from the fire drill, oh what a joy!

worn out from the long day of work yesterday, and the presentation at Tulsa Developers .NET that I gave, but back to the grind none the less.

ConocoPhillips is looking for 2-4 C# .NET Developers. Anyone interested? Good Pay, Good Work Environment.

Dot Net Rocks – Guerilla SOA Episode

I found this episode on Dot Net Rocks the other night. With my focus on SOA lately I really enjoyed listening to this episode. I find that many people have misconceptions about SOA. This episode on Guerilla SOA will clear up many of those misconceptions. If you get a chance you should check it out here:
http://ping.fm/yI41W

Episode Description:
Dr. Jim Webber is the Global Architecture lead for ThoughtWorks where he works on dependable Web Services-based systems for clients worldwide. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry’s first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book “Developing Enterprise Web Services – An Architect’s Guide.” Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name.