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Alfonso Rodriguez was 53 in 2006 when a jury sentenced him to death for the brutal kidnapping, rape and murder of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin.
He's 61 today, waiting on death row in Terre Haute, Ind., as one of his final legal recourses plays out.
If that appeal fails and the pattern of ever-increasing delays between sentencing and execution holds true, Rodriguez may not be injected with a lethal cocktail of chemicals until he's in his 70s or older.
The delay between sentencing and execution for death row inmates across the nation has increased from about six years in the mid-1980s to more than 16 years in 2012, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
A law professor and expert on criminal sentencing said a mix of factors have stretched out delays: many legal avenues for appeal; a shortage of chemicals used in lethal injections and questions about their use; and a strong, nationwide push by groups opposed to the death penalty to help inmates on death row.
"It's a very long period between when somebody gets sentenced to death and when they even get close to the execution chamber," said Douglas Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University.
Support for the death penalty has been waning for years, polling shows, as have the number of death sentences issued.
"The fewer cases there are, the more exposure each case gets," he said.
Linda Walker said she's not surprised her daughter's killer is still alive.
"He's never been held accountable for anything he's ever done," she said. "I knew he'd probably exercise his right to continue to fight."
Dru Sjodin's death shocked the region. The 22-year-old college student disappeared from Grand Forks in November 2003. Her body was discovered nearly five months later in a ravine near Crookston, Minn.
After a grueling 12-week trial, a jury convicted Rodriguez of kidnapping, raping and murdering Sjodin. Weeks later, the jury sentenced him to death -- the first death penalty handed down in North Dakota in a century.
North Dakota abolished its death penalty in 1973. Six states have abolished the death penalty in the last decade, bringing the tally to 16 states that ban capital punishment.
But Rodriguez was tried in federal court, which was possible because he took Sjodin's body across state lines.
Rodriguez and the nearly 60 others on federal death row in Terre Haute have fewer options for appeal than do inmates convicted at the state level, legal experts say, which can result in shorter delays. While someone in death row in Texas can appeal to state and federal courts, Rodriguez has no state courts to appeal to.
Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, said defendants sentenced at the state level have up to nine layers of appeal. Federal inmates like Rodriguez have just five such layers.
Rodriguez is down to what's generally considered an inmate's last appeal. His attorneys filed a habeas corpus motion in 2011 to appeal his death sentence, arguing that he was denied effective counsel, was insane at the time he killed Sjodin and that he is mentally diminished, making him ineligible for execution.
But a federal inmate hasn't been executed since 2003, due in part to a court challenge to the use of lethal injection, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. All scheduled executions have been stayed as that case has proceeded, Dieter said.
Nearly 1,400 people have been executed since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
About 3,000 inmates nationwide are awaiting their deaths, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The number of death sentences and executions has been slipping as the delay times between them have grown, statistics show.
Dieter rejects the idea that decreasing use of the death penalty has allowed groups like his to pounce on cases, dragging out execution dates. Instead, he said he thinks the stories of wrongfully convicted inmates -- like a man on death row for 30 years in Louisiana who was exonerated just this month -- have made the legal system and the public more wary of sentencing someone to death.
"Juries are more skeptical," Dieter said. "It's also caused the courts to allow more hearings or testing."
Warden, from Northwestern's Center on Wrongful Convictions, said there have been wrongful convictions on death row in Illinois. Twenty out of the 303 people sentenced to death were later exonerated, he said.
Nearly eight years after her daughter's killer was sentenced to death, Walker said she tries as hard as she can to accept that Rodriguez is still alive and appealing his sentence.
"It was proven in a court of law that he was guilty," she said.


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For longtime New York Jets fans, the final score -- 45-3 -- triggered a bad memory. The score, coupled with eerily similar circumstances, took many back to 1986.
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The Jets were 10-1, the odds-on Super Bowl favorites in the AFC, when they went to Miami for a Monday night game and got humiliated 45-3 on a four-touchdown performance by Dan Marino. It was the start of an epic collapse by the Jets, who dropped their next four and backed into the playoffs.
Nearly a quarter-century later, the present-day Jets took a 9-2 record into Monday night, the opponent was the New England Patriots and the four-touchdown masterpiece came from Tom Brady.
Three of the biggest names on the '86 Jets -- Joe Klecko, Ken O'Brien and Wesley Walker -- watched the debacle on TV. Curiously, not one of them made the connection to what happened so long ago.
"I didn't think of that until you just mentioned it," O'Brien said in a phone interview, dead serious.
"You have to blot it out when you get beat like that," Walker said.
Klecko said he thought of the 56-3 blowout loss to the Patriots in '79, not the 45-3 mess in '86.
That was a wonderfully talented team in '86 -- Walker was convinced the Jets were Super Bowl-bound -- but it suffered key injuries on defense and simply couldn't recover. Oh, the Jets won a playoff game that year, but that only led to more misery, the mind-boggling, double-overtime loss to the Cleveland Browns in the divisional round.
What will become of the current team? Will it follow the trend of the infamous '86ers?
O'Brien believes the team will be just fine because Rex Ryan will keep things loose, using his dynamic personality to deflect pressure from the players.
Klecko called Monday night an "anomaly," but he saw troubling signs. He said the team lacked the resolve it showed in previous come-from-behind wins. He was particularly disturbed by BenJarvus Green-Ellis' late touchdown run, a play in which he felt the defense showed no fight.
"That effort, that urgency that ... whatever the special word is, I didn't see it," Klecko said. "I don't think they were ready. There's an old saying, 'Play hard and you'll win the games you have to win.' I didn't see that effort or fire."
Klecko believes the Jets can rebound, adding, "If he has to kick them in the groin or do whatever it takes, Rex can't let it happen again. They always talk about playing like a Jet, but they didn't play like Jets in that game."
Walker said the Jets are still in prime position to make a strong run in the playoffs, but he expressed concern about the defense, claiming, "They don't seem to be the same team as last season, defense-wise. Teams are catching on to them."
Walker said he loves quarterback Mark Sanchez's resilience, but "in my gut, I wait and see if he's going to make a mistake. I'm kind of concerned with that. I've been concerned with the overall play. I've seen some things that I don't like, and the Patriots exploited that."
He expected the Patriots to beat his old team, but Walker never imagined it would be so decisive. It was so bad that Ryan, reaching into the Football 101 handbook for a motivational ploy, buried a game ball before Wednesday's practice in a symbolic gesture. Even though he didn't agree with Ryan's method, Walker suspects the Jets have enough professional pride to rebound Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.
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"Rex has a unique way of deflecting a lot of pressure and putting it on himself," he said. "That permeates the entire organization. It's easy to poke holes when it goes like Monday night, but if you look at his body of work, that's the kind of attitude that will keep it loose. They won't be uptight this week."
Having lived through 45-3 -- and worse -- Klecko knows what the Jets might be thinking: "You look around and go, 'Oh, s---.' You look and start saying to yourself, 'Wow, what are we going to do?' You're questioning and questioning, but you have to realize, it can be overcome."
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Scary Halloween jelly
By Valerie Barrett
Cooking timePrep: 25 mins Plus chilling
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 8
Trick or treat time! This kids' party dessert may look gruesome, but the eyeballs and fingers are all sweet and fruity bites
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- 192
- protein
- 2.7g
- carbs
- 41g
- fat
- 2g
- saturates
- 0.2g
- fibre
- 0.4g
- sugar
- 39g
- salt
- 0g
- 2 x 135g packs strawberry or raspberry jelly
- 425g can lychees in syrup
- 12-14 small seedless green grapes
- 12-14 dark coloured jelly beans
- 80g white marzipan
- 6-8 whole blanched almonds
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This is best eaten on the day of making as the marzipan tends to dissolve in the jelly over time. Alternatively, you can place the spooky fingers on the set jelly.
- Cut the jelly into cubes with scissors and place in a bowl. Add 400ml boiling water and stir continuously until dissolved.
- Drain the lychees, reserving the juice. Put the juice in a measuring jug and make up to 400ml with cold water. Add to the dissolved jelly.
- Pour about a quarter of the jelly into a clear glass dish and place in the fridge to set.
- Take a grape and gently push a jelly bean into the centre, using the hole where the stalk has been. Then gently push the grape into a lychee. Repeat with the remaining grapes and lychees to make eyeballs.
- To make the spooky fingers, divide the marzipan into 6 and shape into sausages the size of a finger. Pipe a little red gel at one end and attach an almond to represent a fingernail. Using a small knife mark three or four lines half way down the finger to make a knuckle.
- When the jelly is set, arrange half the eyeballs over the surface, add more jelly and return to the fridge.
- When this has set, arrange the remaining eyeballs over the jelly. Place the spooky fingers against the side of the bowl. Pour over the remaining jelly and place in the fridge to set. Serve in the bowl.
Recipe from bbcgoodfood.com, October 2012
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Great recipe! Children love Halloween, and it's so much better for them if it can be healthy too! thanks for sharing nice recipe.
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I made this for Halloween in the week. It looked amazing & tasted rather good too. I had to make in stages as at work, so the fingers has been in the jelly for about 12 hours & started to dissolve where they joined the jelly. However, this wasn't an issue as it added to the effect & looked the fingers were rotting...haha!
The only thing I would add is a bit of red icing to the eyeballs for the veins as it doesn't state that in the recipe. All in all a great recipe.


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It's time again to pack the car with our laptops, giveaways, staggeringly unhealthy travel snacks, and dangerous quantities of coffee as we set off across the northeast for the March 2009 Northeast Roadshow.
The Roadshow is a series of free, full day events where we deeply focus on topics for developers and architects, sprinkled with our "unbelievable" senses of humor, demos that usually work, and plenty of giveaways to keep unruly audiences at bay in case they don't.
In welcome news - after a brief Roadshow hiatus to focus on the MSDN Developer Conference series, Bob Familiar will again be joining Jim O'Neil and me as we sweep through these cities, on this our eighth series:
Join us as we cover Windows Azure, .NET Debugging, Programming with F#, Game Development with XNA, SQL Server for Developers, and Effective .NET Practices. Click the above registration links to read the full agenda.
Sincere thanks to the companies and organizations who make the Roadshow possible by hosting us in various cities, including KnowledgeWave, Autotask, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Hartford, and the State of Maine Government Offices.
Register today, and we'll see you on the road!
Update: Slides and links from the events are now available.
Ready to learn HTML5? Enjoy games, too?
Join in the HTML5 Game Camps, free events offering a chance to learn about the next wave of web standards including HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, SVG, and more. And while you gain practical knowledge about HTML5 and JavaScript techniques, it's all joined together by the fun of creating games!
These are part of the Microsoft Web Camps series and feature a half day of sessions followed by hands-on game creation time. Get up to speed with HTML5 and game dev concepts in the sessions, then turn your ideas into reality as we leave the slides behind. Design and develop creations of your own, with plenty of guidance and help for your questions.
Here's where the HTML5 Game Camps are heading, with links to details and registration:
(Note some of these events are morning through afternoon, and others are afternoon to evening.)
Don't forget to read the prep steps at the bottom of the event pages. To get ready for coding, consider installing WebMatrix (it's free) and other tools via the Web Platform Installer. Also, consider attending with a friend and tackling the game creation as a team!
For those of you in the Rochester, NY area, there's a special RIT Game Camp the weekend of December 2nd-4th. It's all about game development, and features multiple ways to learn about and create games:
It's free, hosted on the campus of RIT, and open to everyone. So, choose what you'd like to participate in, and enjoy!
With three cities done, Jim and I have four more stops remaining on our "Don't Fear the Coder" Northeast MSDN Roadshow:
In an attempt to maximize the amount of stuff we need to carry from place to place, we're testing out a new idea, "Bring a friend, get a book".
For any of these remaining events, if you bring along a friend to the Roadshow, we'll give you both a copy of Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3.
How? When registering online (with the above links), you'll be asked for a Referral Code…
Just enter the name of your attending friend (or they can list you if you've already registered), and you'll each get copies of the book when you both sign in at the event.
Can it be that easy? Pretty much, but here are The Official Rules:
See you on the road!
Jim and I are on the home stretch for the 2008 Winter Northeast Roadshow! After four stops over the prior two weeks, we're heading into a three-event week at the following locations:
We're going to have a blast with these remaining stops - with some of our biggest audiences yet. (And, after Thursday, I'm looking forward to a little vacation time as well!)
Look for the slides, demos, and resources from our presentations to be posted on our blogs by the end of this week.
See you on the road, -Chris
The Roadshow returns for tour #9 in June! The full agenda is below, but in summary, these are free, full-day events for developers and architects, covering Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance.
Our (late Spring slash early) Summer Tour will feature stops in five cities in June:
Okay, so maybe we went a little overboard with the theme (you'll see what I mean) this time, but we enjoy doing these so much, it's easy to get carried away.
Also, you can check out the Northeast Channel 9 home and Northeast Code Gallery for resources from past Roadshows and more.
Register with the above links and we'll see you on the road!
The Summer 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow: "Technology Blockbuster Tour"
Coming this June to a city near you…
In a world where technology changes can be quick and dramatic, developers need reliable sources of knowledge, and the Roadshow Guys are here to answer the call, featuring a style and wit the critics call "unique". Join us (Chris Bowen, Jim O'Neil, and Bob Familiar – three amigos who just love a theme) as we travel by planes, trains, and automobiles to cross the northeast to bring you a full day of deep content for developers and architects, all with the amazing ticket price of zero.
Register today and join us for our 9th series of these free, relaxed days where we'll dive into the latest technology, tools, and practices for developers and architects.
3-D glasses are optional, but as you'll discover, we're frighteningly real enough. [Rated PG – "Practical Guidance"]
The Agenda – Jim, Bob, and Chris in "Client Side Story": Tales of Browser, OS, and Application Technologies
8:00 – Bypass the ticket booth, grab a coffee and a seat (but of course you'll only need the edge…)
8:30 – Windows 7: A "Dev Story" "Windows 7 means never having to say you're sorry…" There's a lot to love in Windows 7, and in this session we'll take a look at the foundation of any enduring relationship – compatibility. As you move on from your days with Vista, you may be surprised at how comfortable Windows 7 is; you don't have to completely reinvent yourself (or your applications) just to get along. Of course, the newest OS on the block also brings with it the allure and excitement of new features – multi-touch, jump lists, and the scenic ribbon – and who doesn't want to show that off! Leave your tissues at home, we promise a happy ending to this one.
9:50 – "Desperately Seeking Silverlight" – Developing with Silverlight, Today and Tomorrow Searching the newspapers for something new to spice up the day-to-day life of your applications? Silverlight is that cool jacket your applications can wear to attract a new world of interest. In this session, we'll take a brief look at what you can accomplish in today's world with Silverlight 2 development using .NET and XAML for a great client experience. Then, it's time for a sneak preview of the coming attractions of Silverlight 3, including out-of-browser support, new graphics to video options, productivity and performance improvements. We'll also take a look at the very cool features coming in Expression Blend 3. Answer your customers' want ads with Silverlight, and get ready for a mob of new followers!
11:10 – "Data Quest" – Pinning Down Approaches to Data Access Your applications are growing up, and it's time to graduate from DataReaders and DataSets. Want to get your applications in shape, but wrestling with the concepts of multiple data access options like ADO.NET, LINQ to SQL, and Entity Framework? This match session will pull you back from the lunatic fringe by going to the mat with these data technologies and helping focus a vision for your application's data requirements
12:00 – "Nightmare on IE Street" – Adding IE8 Web Slices and Accelerators to Your Web Site The reality is that supporting multiple browsers can be a nightmare. In this session, we will review how to handle browser compatibility and how to take advantage of IE8 Web Slices and Accelerators. A Web Slice enables users to subscribe to content directly within a Web page, without requiring a separate RSS feed file. Accelerators are contextual menu options that can quickly access applications or Web services from any Web page. Not all slicing needs to be the stuff of terror, and understanding IE8 will make your web pages a dream for your users, while striking fear into your competition.
1:00 – "20,000 Leagues under the MVC" – Diving into ASP.NET MVC Setting sail on the web can be an uncertain proposition. Tales of peril abound of sites that have sunk and never been seen since. ASP.NET with WebForms has always been a trusty vessel, worthy of the voyage, but a new design has just left dry dock. Now officially released, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is a new option for creating web applications that makes it easy to have fine-grained control over how pages in your web application are generated, encourages separation of concerns, and fosters testability. In this session, we'll focus on learning to build a new site with ASP.NET MVC, while sharing advice to help you decide when to choose MVC or WebForms. MVC's fine-grained control and implementation flexibility can be keys to navigating what can be a turbulent sea of changing requirements and market demands. Captain a site with ASP.NET MVC, and you may find that it's not monsters under the surface, but hidden treasure instead.
2:10 – "The Coding of WPF 1 2 3" – Ribbons, Grids, Threads, and More When the stakes are high, you don't need to be held hostage by the old ways of doing things. Jump on the WPF train and break free of those UI bonds. In this code-heavy session, we will demonstrate the power of WPF with the new Office/Windows 7 Ribbon Control, the new WPF Grid Control, and how to leverage background threads to make your user interface scream. When having the richest client experience is a non-negotiable requirement, you can be the hero, saving the day with WPF.
3:30 – Wrap-up, giveaways, and the mad dash for the exits!
We're fueling up the car, stocking up on munchies, packing in a bunch of giveaways, and heading out on the open roads for our sixth Roadshow! It's also our biggest one yet, as we'll pile on the miles heading to six cities across the northeast:
[Please note that, in addition to adding Albany, we have new venues in Burlington, Rochester, and Augusta. Details are in the event registration pages, plus a few notes at the bottom of this post.]
Join my fellow road and code warrior, Jim O'Neil and me for a free, relaxed day of deep content for developers and architects. (Roadshow partner Bob Familiar can't make it this time around – he's working on a secret hush-hush type of project – but he'll be back when we return to the roads this winter!)
We're trying out a different kind of session plan this time. We've added a few extra sessions to this series, including topics that fit more comfortably into a smaller amount of time. These "turbo sessions" are a great way to bring a more diverse agenda to you, while staying deep with others. Speaking of the agenda...
Abstraction is frequently used to create difficult-to-appreciate artwork, but when applied to software, abstractions can improve flexibility, independence, and the ability to compose higher-level concepts. ADO.NET Entity Framework, now shipping as part of Visual Studio 2008 & .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, helps you create models of your data that enable a familiar object-oriented programming experience. Entities map flexibly to data sources while providing insulation from schema changes at the same time. LINQ makes an appearance as well, using the familiar syntax we've seen with LINQ to Objects, SQL, and XML to query entities. You've got the picture, so get out there and model some works of art!
ASP.NET Dynamic Data, introduced with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release, breathes immediate (i.e., code-less) life into LINQ To SQL and Entity Framework data models by providing a customizable, template-driven, scaffolding framework. Put on your wizard hat, you now have dynamic power at your fingertips.
Ahoy, developers! The release of Internet Explorer 8 is just around the bend. Of course, we'll pull out the spyglass and take a look over the sea of new consumer features, but what does this next version mean for you as developer, and what should you do to navigate to glory? You'll see how treasures like accelerators and web slices can be a differentiator for your company, see the new wave of compatibility features and options, and unearth the tools available for developers to make for smooth sailing on the sometimes turbulent web development waters.
Grab a lunch and join in as we delve into the world of robotics programming with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. Think robotics is mostly for manufacturing systems, toys, and those cool little floor cleaning bots? You may be surprised at how the things we cover may come to affect your professional development life! Perhaps you'll find yourself saying, "Thank you very luncho, Mr. Roboto!"
One thing not missing from Microsoft's development offerings is a choice of options. In this session, we'll compare and contrast the various .NET technologies available for building client experiences (Windows Forms, WPF, XBAP, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Windows Mobile) to give you some insight in to making the best choices for reaching your applications' target audience.
REST (Representational State Transfer) is what all the cool developers are using these days to communicate among distributed resources and services. So that you're not left standing idly by on the sidelines, we'll look at the rationales of the approach, why it's cleaner than SOAP, and how Microsoft has adopted REST in technologies such as WCF and ADO.NET Data Services.
Unit testing could be your new best friend, and we're here to help make the proper introductions. A practice that ultimately results in reduced overall efforts, unit testing is a focus on crafting test code that verifies your application code isn't misbehaving. In this session, we'll focus on what unit testing is, how it can be done, and some of the proven and effective practices you can employ to help your unit tests pay dividends over time. If Humphrey Bogart were a developer, he would have agreed, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Thanks very much to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for donating use of the Bruggeman Auditorium to enable us to add the Albany area to our list of stops. Sincere thanks as well to KnowledgeWave in Burlington, VT and The Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, ME for donating space in their facilities so we could return to those areas!
We unfortunately couldn't make a visit to our friends at the Rochester Institute of Technology work for this series (though they very helpfully tried), so we're working with the Rochester Public Library for this visit (and not just because they're ridiculously close to Dinosaur BBQ!)
Jim and I can't wait to get out there since we always have a blast with the Roadshows! We'll see you soon!
-Chris and Jim
Like games? Interested in creating your own using C#?
I'm excited to announce that we have a new user group in the Boston area, focused on game development with the XNA Framework!
Join the Boston XNA Developers Group's inaugural meeting on February 27th at 6:00 at the Microsoft offices (201 Jones Road, 6th floor) in Waltham, MA. The meeting will introduce XNA and XNA Game Studio (available for free) and will have some discussion around plans and goals for the group.
No prior game development experience is required, just a passion for gaming and coding.
Thanks to Michael Cummings for stepping up to take on leadership of the group!
Head to http://bostonxna.org for more information.
"One, Two,... Nine, Sir!"
Can you believe we're on Code Camp Nine?! Code Camps began in New England in 2004, and here we are, with Code Camps now happening all around the world! A great testament to the motivation and strength of our global .NET developer community.
I'm happy to say we're officially a lock for April 5th and 6th for Code Camp 9 at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA.
Got Name?
Our dedicated team of community leaders are working hard to find the perfect (read "good enough") subtitle for this one, but if you've got an idea, let me know!
For reference, here are the prior eight, from the timely to the downright puzzling:
Got Logo?
Have some, well ANY artistic talent? Can you create a new Code Camp logo? Really, as you can see above, it won't take much to do better than mine.
Come up with one that we use and I'll lavish you with fame (okay, a thank you on my blog) and fortune (we can negotiate something out of my DE prize closet.)
See You There!
Save the dates, think of sessions you'd like to give (we can't have a camp without volunteer presenters), and we'll see you then!
Keep an eye on this blog for more details, registration, and the Call for Speakers.
We're at it again! My colleague Bob and I are heading out for round three of our Roadshow. It (and we) will run from September 10th through the 20th, sweeping through the following cities, leaving a wake of toppled water glasses and technical enlightenment in its path:
(Note that we've changed the Nashua, NH stop to Waltham, MA.)
Our Roadshow is a series of free full-day events featuring thoroughly technical content about both current and cutting edge technology in a location near* you (*assuming you live/work near one of the cities we're visiting.) We consider each of the four sessions to be "300-level" depth and strive to give you the "why and why not" in addition to the "how". Plus, we get to throw things at you. No, really.
Registration is required and for some cities has been known to fill up. See below for the full session descriptions and registration links.
UPDATE (8/23) - I can't promise anything at this point, but we're in the process of ordering a large quantity of the MS Press title "Introducing Microsoft LINQ" and expect to be able to give every attendee of our roadshow a copy.
[The usual yada yada applies - we might run out, we might not get them in time, our backs might give out and we can't carry them, etc.]
Bob Familiar and Chris Bowen are two guys who love to write code and can't stop talking about it. Now they're back on the road, taking their long-winded rants and questionable demos to a city near you. Join them for a day of deep technology, code aplenty, and the best humor they can manage.
Agenda: A Tasteful Blend of Satisfying Technology
8:30 – 9:00
Arrive, check in, grab some coffee and a seat
9:00 - 9:05
Announcements and Introduction
9:05 – 10:25
Coding in a Dynamic World
Clinging to static ways? Relax your grip a little and take a look into the world of dynamic languages. There's been a lot of talk, but what are they, and most importantly, what do they mean for you and your development efforts today? In this session, we'll introduce the concepts behind dynamic languages and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). You'll see how features such as dynamic types, method dispatch, and code generation in current dynamic languages like IronPython and future ones such as IronRuby and VBx offer effective new options for your designs and implementations.
10:25 – 10:35
Take a break and show your dynamic personality to fellow attendees
10:35 – 12:00
Practical Silverlight
Silverlight is cool but why would I use it and how does it fit into my existing web applications? How do you setup a Silverlight development environment? Can designers and developers really collaborate using Blend and Visual Studio? What impact will Silverlight have on my production environment? How can I build applications using Silverlight that invoke web services? These questions will be answered in another session. This one is about COM+. Just kidding.
12:00 – 12:45
You've seen the (silver) light, now see about some lunch
12:45 – 2:10
Developer Productivity Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
You might be spending hours each day working with Visual Studio, tragically only a few keystrokes or menu options away from better ways of doing the same work. This session will help you become a more productive developer and architect with Visual Studio. We'll focus on tips, tricks, and hidden gems that are available in both the 2005 and 2008 versions of Visual Studio, but of course you just know we'll throw in a few 2008-only teasers as well…
2:10 – 2:25
Enjoy an efficient break
2:25 – 3:45
Software as a Service, Software + Services, Service with a Smile, Can I Get Some Service, Where is the Waiter?
This session will introduce the concepts behind Software + Services, and what that means in a practical sense as you architect and develop new systems. We'll talk about leveraging web services, either your own or third-party ones such as Live.com, to create compelling service-enabled systems and mashups leveraging assets such as maps, photos, rich media, contacts, search and other services.
3:45 – 4:00
Wrap Up, Evals, and Free Books
Arrive, check in, grab some coffee and a seat
Coding in a Dynamic World
Clinging to static ways? Relax your grip a little and take a look into the world of dynamic languages. There's been a lot of talk, but what are they, and most importantly, what do they mean for you and your development efforts today? In this session, we'll introduce the concepts behind dynamic languages and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). You'll see how features such as dynamic types, method dispatch, and code generation in current dynamic languages like IronPython and future ones such as IronRuby and VBx offer effective new options for your designs and implementations.
Take a break and show your dynamic personality to fellow attendees
Silverlight is cool but why would I use it and how does it fit into my existing web applications? How do you setup a Silverlight development environment? Can designers and developers really collaborate using Blend and Visual Studio? What impact will Silverlight have on my production environment? How can I build applications using Silverlight that invoke web services? These questions will be answered in another session. This one is about COM+. Just kidding.
You've seen the (silver) light, now see about some lunch
Developer Productivity Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
You might be spending hours each day working with Visual Studio, tragically only a few keystrokes or menu options away from better ways of doing the same work. This session will help you become a more productive developer and architect with Visual Studio. We'll focus on tips, tricks, and hidden gems that are available in both the 2005 and 2008 versions of Visual Studio, but of course you just know we'll throw in a few 2008-only teasers as well…
Software as a Service, Software + Services, Service with a Smile, Can I Get Some Service, Where is the Waiter?
This session will introduce the concepts behind Software + Services, and what that means in a practical sense as you architect and develop new systems. We'll talk about leveraging web services, either your own or third-party ones such as Live.com, to create compelling service-enabled systems and mashups leveraging assets such as maps, photos, rich media, contacts, search and other services.
We're closing in on another great New England Code Camp this very weekend! We have 27 presenters giving over 40 sessions on a wide variety of subjects!
Note that I recently posted a Code Camp update with details about the speakers, contributors, and a special Sunday LINQ workshop.
Note that I recently posted a Code Camp update with details about the speakers, contributors, and a special Sunday LINQ workshop.
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA
It's not too late to Register! http://TheDevCommunity.org/CodeCamps
It's not too late to Register! http://TheDevCommunity.org/CodeCamps
Sessions and rooms for both days are below. We'll have copies of the schedule available at Camp during registration.
You can also see the schedule at TheDevCommunity site.
Don't forget there's also the traditional Saturday evening social gathering over at the Waltham Westin's lobby bar. So after the sessions end, head over there to unwind and enjoy some good company.
A reminder to speakers - as with last Code Camp, we've blocked off the Providence Room for use by speakers (only) as a green/ready room for your talks.
See you at Camp!-Chris
Thanks to everyone who attended this weekend's New England Code Camp 7 - "Deer in Headlights!" We had a fantastic time at the Microsoft offices in Waltham and had an estimated crowd (people kept coming in through the day) of 250 on Saturday and 220 on Sunday.
Thanks to Cedric and Yvonne for staffing the registration and helping to field the random "things" that always come up at a Code Camp.
Surprisingly, very few shenanigans occurred on Sunday (April Fools Day) save my lame posting of fake sessions outside one of the chat rooms. Unfortunately, that was just too subtle for anyone to notice. Next time we just happen to hold Code Camp on April 1st, I'll take full advantage!
First of all, thanks to Chris Pels for helping to coordinate the Code Camp and for developing theDevCommunity.org site, which we used for registration and presentation tracking.
I'd like to extend very large thanks to our speakers - volunteers of time and skills without whom community events like Code Camps would not be possible:
Giving the over 40 sessions, we had a number of first-time speakers mixed in with the veterans of many events and conferences. I think Steve St. Jean was the most-prepared first-time speaker I've ever seen. Well done, everyone!
We're collecting links to all of the presentations which our speakers are able to host. Keep an eye on theDevCommunity.org site for links over the next week or so.
Slides from my talks (and Bob Familiar's) can be found here.
Thanks also to the Code Camp's giveaways contributors:
We had tons of magazines out for the taking, along with bags, pens, and discount vouchers. For raffles, we had contributed software, clothing, and a bunch of books, hats, and mugs I pulled from my "DE Treasure Trove". The end results of which were happy attendees and a happy wife who has fewer boxes of stuff to deal with at our home.
I'd like to call out special thanks to two people who contributed food and drink beyond what I was able to provide.
First, thanks to Jason Haley (pictured at left) for coordinating a campaign to raise funds from various user groups for coffee and doughnuts on Saturday morning (including my favorite, the french cruller.) Along with the food, Jason produced a summary list of the region's user groups, their sites and meeting times. We put copies of these lists next to the coffee & doughnuts to help raise awareness.
Jason also wins the award for traveling farthest for Camp (from Seattle!)
Second, a thank you to the Richard Hale Shaw Group for the humorous (and tasty) contribution of Kool-Aid for each day's consumption! At right is a picture of us raising a sugary toast together. Richard also volunteered his expertise to run three well-attended sessions on Sunday.
Add in a heck of a lot of pizza, rolls, and soda and you've got.. well a ton to clean up afterward (see picture at left)...
I probably gained a few pounds from Saturday alone.
A group of speakers and attendees meandered over to the Waltham Westin hotel's lounge for some pretty good food and drink. Final Four basketball was on the televisions, but nobody seemed interested as the outrageous stories flew.
Pop Quiz! Do you know who was wearing the shirt featured in the (highly-cropped) picture at right?
Todd Mancini piqued my curiosity by ordering a Campari and soda. Having never heard of this Campari thing (which looks like the Kool-Aid we had earlier in the day,) I made the mistake of actually ordering one. Not to be repeated.
Dave Burke (of the "Vermont Contingent") has a nice writeup with some rather kind words about the Camp and the evening's gathering. I think he cut me some slack since I'm a former Vermonter. :)
We received lots of great feedback about the event and it seems people were pleased with the weekend. I'm still going through the evaluations, but it looks like the speakers did a fantastic job of satisfying the audience and I've received some interesting new ideas to make the next Camp even better.
So stay tuned later over the summer for the dates of Code Camp 8! We're going to need a new subtitle, so get thinking...
Thanks again to everyone!-Chris
We're back in the saddle again, gearing up for another five-city tour to bring deep technical content to a projection screen near you!
Dates, locations, and registration links are at the bottom of this post.
Note that we've changed venues from Farmington to Hartford, CT and Manchester to Nashua, NH.
Bob Familiar and Chris Bowen are two guys who love to write code and can't stop talking about it. And now they've decided to take their long winded rants and questionable demos to a city near you. And if you were at our last event, you know the line about questionable demos is no joke!
Personally, I'm counting down to my coming birthday when I hope (nudge, nudge) that somebody drops a copy of Guitar Hero II into my greedy mitts...
This Saturday (6/23), we gathered at the Microsoft offices in Waltham for the first "C# Day" event. Thanks to Michael de la Maza for volunteering his time and effort to run the session!
There was a great turnout - so good in fact that the room filled up and unfortunately couldn't offer table space for one or two latecomers. The good news is Michael is planning to run this event again, so keep an eye on this blog or on the Learn2LearnProgram site for announcements.
The day was quite different from traditional (lecture/lab) technology education events. Michael's approach is very social, encouraging people to interact to share what they've discovered and to work with different lab partners throughout the day. Michael gave an introduction to the material, then encouraged participants to "become" one of the C# language constructs. Everyone specialized in a language feature, researched and worked with that feature, and then attended a "cocktail party" in the next room where people socialized by exchanging details about what their function was. Introductions took the form of "Hello, my name is <C# function> and I..."
Michael received plenty of good feedback from attendees and is already planning some new ideas and approaches for the next event.
Considering coming to the next C# Day? So your expectations are inline with the event, be certain to read Michael's description on his site. Also, Michael arranged to capture parts of the event on video. The video should be on Learn2Learn2Program.com soon, the idea being that a video can demonstrate the format and style of the event more effectively than textual descriptions.
Thanks to everyone who participated and again to Michael for running the event!
Veteran speaker with something to share? Looking to try public speaking for the first time?
We have just opened the Call for Speakers for Code Camp 7 - "Deer in Headlights!" in Waltham, MA on March 31st and April 1st.
Code Camps are about .NET communities coming forward and sharing the latest in technology, practices, and experiences. You can submit a session on any topic and any level you'd like. If you want to talk about it, we'll give you a room for it!
Here's how to submit a session:
Don't forget to register for the Code Camp itself!
Many thanks to Chris Pels for his great work on TheDevCommunity.org site!
[Update 3/21 - Added missing step to create a Speaker Profile before submitting a session.]
The fall is rapidly approaching, and with that comes another fantastic weekend of code, technology, and developer community called Code Camp. Save the dates of September 29th and 30th for Code Camp 8: "The Rise of the Silverlight Surfer" (thanks to Andy Beaulieu for the name!) As always, CC will be held at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA.
For now, just save the dates, but Registration and Call for Speakers will be coming soon!
With the incredible amount of new technology emerging, this is clearly going to be an excellent Code Camp! If you haven't been to a one before, check out the Code Camp Manifesto as well as the summary of Code Camp 7.
It's been a busy week (getting ready for the 2008 Launch event in Boston next week), but I have a moment to share details from my trip to MIX '08 last week.
It was my first MIX, and incredibly, my first visit to Las Vegas! Not a lot of free time to absorb the city, but it was great.
Didn't get to go (or went but somehow couldn't be everywhere at once)? All content was recorded and is freely available at:
First, the featured products and tools:
And the Demos:
And finally, to describe the pictures on the right:
Hoping I get to go next year!
We're under a week from New England's Code Camp 10: "Dev InTENsity!" (what is Code Camp?), a free weekend filled with technology sessions given by the local developer community. Code Camp 10 will be held on September 20th & 21st at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA.
Registration is at over 315 345 385 people and still open at:
But the real story is that there's been a fantastic show of support from volunteers giving their time and expertise to speak.
CC10 will feature about 50 sessions by 30 speakers, all for free! The grids are below, here are the session descriptions, and we'll have printouts of the grids and descriptions waiting for you at registration.
Register today, plan out your weekend with the schedule below, and we'll see you at Camp!
A Code Camp tradition for several years, we're informally gathering over at the Waltham Westin's lobby bar for a chance to unwind on Saturday night. Drop by after sessions are over to relax, chat, and network with fellow New England devs!
P.S. There's also a Code Camp Facebook page, which is another way to connect with others in the northeast community.
Getting Started with the Web DataGrid
Lunch (Food in Kitchen & MPR A + B)
Thanks to Magenic Technologies!
Code Generation with the Visual Studio 2008 SDK
Thanks to Syrinx Consulting!
Some breaking news for .NET developers in the greater Boston area - the Beantown .NET User Group, organized by MVP Ben Day, is moving across the Charles to Microsoft's New England Research & Development Center (NERD) in Cambridge!
This will give NERD it's first .NET-focused user group and gives Beantown .NET plenty of room to grow.
The first meeting at NERD is on April 2nd from 6:00-8:00 (directions) and should be a fun chance to hear plenty of views and practices:
The Unit Testing Throwdown Oddly, there seems to be almost no consensus about unit testing. Lots of developers think that unit testing is dumb. Plenty are ambivalent. Some love it. Even among those devs who are already sold on unit testing, there's no consensus. Sure, we might agree about some of the helpful things to do like using the Repository pattern, interface-driven design, and mocking frameworks but ask 10 developers how they'd unit test something and you'll get 30 different answers. Well, enough with the armchair quarterbacking. It's on! You don't like how I write my tests? I want to know why. Come show me how you do it. Don't like unit tests at all? Come tell us why. Got some killer technique? Got an opinion about how much logic you put in each test method? Tonight's the night to bring out The Awesome. The plan is to show code samples, gather around the whiteboard, and by the end (hopefully) sort out some Real-Life Best Practices for unit testing. BTW, if you have unit testing topics that you think we should put on the agenda, email them to email@example.com.
The Unit Testing Throwdown
Oddly, there seems to be almost no consensus about unit testing. Lots of developers think that unit testing is dumb. Plenty are ambivalent. Some love it. Even among those devs who are already sold on unit testing, there's no consensus. Sure, we might agree about some of the helpful things to do like using the Repository pattern, interface-driven design, and mocking frameworks but ask 10 developers how they'd unit test something and you'll get 30 different answers.
Well, enough with the armchair quarterbacking. It's on! You don't like how I write my tests? I want to know why. Come show me how you do it. Don't like unit tests at all? Come tell us why. Got some killer technique? Got an opinion about how much logic you put in each test method? Tonight's the night to bring out The Awesome.
The plan is to show code samples, gather around the whiteboard, and by the end (hopefully) sort out some Real-Life Best Practices for unit testing.
BTW, if you have unit testing topics that you think we should put on the agenda, email them to email@example.com.
See you there!
Chris Pels and I are excited to announce that the 11th edition of the venerable New England Code Camp series will be held on March 28th in Waltham, MA!
New England Code Camp 11: "Developer Stimulus Package" Saturday, March 28th, 8:30 AM – 7 PM+ Microsoft, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA
Code Camps (started in 2004 with New England Code Camp 1), are free events organized by and for the developer community. A fantastic chance to share knowledge without marketing noise getting in the way. Check out the Code Camp Manifesto for the guiding principles.
Registration is free at The Dev Community site!
The (always subject to change) schedule is now available, featuring over 40 sessions!
In recognition and support of the growth of other Code Camps in the northeast (including NH, CT, and NY), this time we're packing everything and everyone into a single Mega Saturday. Needless to say, this is going to be an intense day, so come to Camp well rested!
Code Camp is driven by volunteer speakers, and simply put, we need you!
Nobody expects each speaker to be a veteran of national conferences (though we do have some!) Code Camps are great because we hear from many perspectives – we want to hear yours!
So, have something to share? Submit a session today:
Update 3/23 – Sincere thanks to Infragistics who have stepped up to provide lunch for Code Camp! Thanks also to Infragistics' own Tony Lombardo who is making the trip from NYC to speak as well.
Code Camps rely on contributors to donate giveaways and funding for food to help make the event happen.
You'll have a highly-targeted audience appreciating your support of the developer community, so please let me know if your company is interested in contributing.
See you all there! -Chris


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Doesn't that require hardware designed to decode it?
The actual number of possibilities pertinent to this discussion are two:
1) iOs updates to 7.1 before SWSX
2) iOS doesn't update to 7.1 before SWSX.
There is a 100% chance that iOS will update to iOs 7.1 at some stage, as it is in Beta.
March would historically be a fairly long time, for a point update, since the release of iOS 7.0.
Then there is the insider reputation of John Gruber, which is fairly considerable. So given the binary possibilities I would say it is a good deal higher than 50% that there will be a release at or before SWSX.
Hey, I'm just being pedantic. Of course, it's highly likely that Apple will go with one of the two options you stated; just not actually 100%.


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Gorgeously photographed, sentimental and nostalgic, "The Well Digger's Daughter" is new, but it could have been made any time in the past 50 years.
French superstar Daniel Auteuil directed and stars as Pascal, a well digger raising five girls and wishing they were boys. The eldest, Patricia, is a beauty who was under the care of snooty relatives in Paris but has returned to the country to help her four sisters. Pascal is trying to marry off Patricia to a much older colleague, but that plan gets complicated when Patricia becomes pregnant by a wealthy townie and both of her potential suitors are sent off to fight World War I.
There's plenty of conflict in "The Well Digger's Daughter," but it's the sort of movie that is always eager to pause for a long shot of someone making her way through a field of tall, green grass, dotted with wildflowers. The movie is so postcard-pretty, and the musical score by maestro Alexandre Desplat so lovely, that the film sometimes seems like it's more interested in picnics surrounded by poppies than the plight of women at a time when they were just one step away from being their fathers' property.
"The Well Diggers Daughter" never figures out how to balance its Martha Stewart Living prettiness with its theme, which is that World War I found France poised at a moment when everything to do with class and gender was about to change.
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Former Playboy and glamour model Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska has taken over as director of the Polish club Warta Poznan. The club currently resides in the Polish first division, which is actually the second division of Polish soccer below the Ektraklasa Premier League. This would be the perfect opportunity to make a Polish joke except England's First Division is actually its third so that makes even less sense.
The former model is set on returning Warta to its former glory, or at least back to the top division where it has not been since the 1990s. She promises to bring discipline and order to the club.
"I used to work in a building company, which requires ruling with an iron fist. I will make sure that there is order and discipline at the club," proclaimed the new
dictator director.
Something, something…I'd let her rule me.
UF wishes Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska all the luck in the world and hopes she continues to have her club in the news. We also hope this starts a new trend in football management.
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Website: www.qwiji.com.
I'm 33 Years old, married +3, with great passion for food and cooking. I'm the Co-Founder & CEO of Qwiji.
Established a SaaS application development start-up, managed an EMEA region in a big international telecommunication company.
It's a great honor.
Provide an alternative browsing and searching experience.
Qwiji eliminates the need to choose pages or search results, the platform instantly create a web show out of your search key-words.
Both of the founders are early stage internet users and developers, and both of us shared the same feeling that browsing the web sometimes can become boring and frustrating; we decided to develop a game that turn browsing into an adventure, eventually it turned into a browsing and searching experience.
Qwiji is self funded. We're looking for $ 500K investment.
2 employees. 1 developer.
Currently not.
.Net, it's the one we're most familiar with, no learning curve required, reliable and stable.
I think that cloud computing, SaaS application and SaaS security will be one of the hottest opportunities in the near future.
A great starting point for low-budget and first time entrepreneurs.
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