____________________________________________________________ C o v e r Y o u r A S P . c o m http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Perhaps I should confess something right up front: CoverYourASP.NET isn't imminent. A lot has happened in the last month. As you know[1] I may be out of a job sometime between March and June as my office is moving to Colorado, and I'm not. Nuff said. [1] http://coveryourasp.com/Snippet.asp?snip=50 The repercussions of this are still echoing around my head. First, I decided that it wasn't fair to you or I to write CoverYourASP.NET as my first .NET site. There's a lot to learn and I'd sooner do it in private if that's all the same to you. ;-) So I've started a new completely-different site as a learning ground for .NET (and of course a way to make my millions). So far it's going great and I've learnt a ton which I'm saving up for you and CYA.NET. But don't expect the site for a while. Sorry. ____________________________________________________________ T H E C O N T E S T http://CoverYourASP.com/Contest.asp ____________________________________________________________ Clint just won the contest and the Dundas Chart component and ASP.NET By Example book! Innes came so close, but won the secnd prize of just the book. Sorry Innes. ;-) ______ REMEMBER - the contest is now monthly. The current contest will end on March 31st. The main prize is the Developer Edition of Spd E-Letter Mailing list ***** a $750 value! ***** Spd E-Letter is an awesome way of quickly and easily adding a very effective Newsletter Management system to your site or those of your customers. Check it out: http://www.pensaworks.com/prg_spd.asp?r=cya ______ This contests book is back to my old favorite: "ASP.NET Unleashed" by Stephen Walther This truly is the best ASP.NET book I've read so far and one that I recommend everyone buys. You won't be disappointed. Check out the reviews at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672320681/shawthingcom ______ Prize details at http://CoverYourASP.com/ContestPrizes.asp ____________________________________________________________ T H E D I A R Y The recent events at CoverYourASP http://CoverYourASP.com/ShowDiary.asp ____________________________________________________________ 23 Jan ______ - Sams Publishing agreed to donate another book for this extra-long contest, so I'll be picking two winners this time. Only one will get the $950 Dundas component though. ;-) I've also added my five favorite ASP.NET books to the rotation on the right, and to my Resources page. Just until I write CoverYourASP.NET you understand, then this site will return to "Classic ASP" only! ______ 26 Jan ______ - Jans ASP Portal told me that CYA will be featured as their "Site of the week" in a few weeks, so I added him to my list of sites that link to me. Check it out! ______ 28 Jan ______ - A nice birthday present for me - my office is being closed! I've posted my resume today to a few web sites but please send me any leads you have for ASP, ASP.NET or C++ jobs in Atlanta, GA. Thanks! ______ 30 Jan ______ - I heard a very sad story at the weekend - John from WebDevelopers.com let me know that he is being taken to court by Internet.com over his domain name. Apparently, Internet.com registered WebDeveloper.com in February 1995 and John registered WebDevelopers.com and .net in May 1995. Remember, that's 7 years ago. Now Internet.com are claiming ownership of John's domain names and have taken him to court based on copyright infringement. He has been forced to stop publishing WebDevelopers.com until the issue has been resolved, so has moved all of his content to a new site: DevMatch.com. Personally, I this is a tough call to make. Internet.com *were* first to register their name, and John's is very similar, but should it matter? Should they both be allowed to exist? ______ 31 Jan ______ - If you are planning to attend just one conference this year, check out ASP.NET Connections in New Orleans. Start persuading your bosses now - the conference takes place during Jazz Fest! ______ 1 Feb ______ - If you run a web site, here is an interesting article for you. Steve Clason wrote an excellent piece on how Google's page ranking algorithm works. Since Google is easily my top referrer I found this fascinating. Take a look at "Link Popularity Made Simple (Sort Of)". - Thanks for such a great January - it's wonderful to see the traffic climb so much in one month. It's a combination of two things, first the launch of XP caused me to write my very popular "Can I run ASP on XP Home Edition?" and then the launch of the .NET Framework SDK got everyone enthusiastic again. Traffic is up 25% to 430,000 page views a month now! ______ 14 Feb ______ - Fellow ASP Ace and all round good guy Dave Wanta has launched a very cool new web site: KBAlertz.com. This site crawls MSDN each day and sends you all the relevant new Knowledge Base articles that have been published - you simply choose which technologies you are interested in. Very cool! ______ 20 Feb ______ - Neil Holmes is an old friend that runs the VisualASP site to sell his very cool components. I certainly wouldn't consider writing my own - his are very cheap and well tested. Neil just revamped his site (hence this promotion) so now you have extra reason to check it out... ______ 28 Feb ______ - Another contest is over and another begun! Two winners were picked this time. Clint was the winner of the $950 Dundas Chart and ASP.NET By Example book, while Innes just won the book! Now another month-long contest has begun, this time featuring the excellent Pensaworks Spd E-Letter worth $750 and my favorite ASP.NET book - ASP.NET Unleashed. Good luck! ___________________________________________________________ T O O L S I U S E ProposalKit 5.0 http://www.proposalkit.com/affdir/1461.htm ____________________________________________________________ If you are a web site designer, and you want to steer clear of the pitfalls out there, come armed with professional looking proposals and "close the deal", then this product is for you. It's guaranteed for 30 days, so that means you don't even have to make a decision. Just download the product and start using these tools in your web design business, and you'll be playing in the big leagues, without the learning curve that's normally associated with setting up a design business. You get $800-worth of free legal documents too, including: US, Canadian and English law web contracts Subcontractor agreement document Web hosting agreement document Short form web development contract CD-ROM/Flash development contract 28 different contracts and agreements ___________________________________________________________ L A T E S T D E V E L O P M E N T S http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Just one new snippet was added, and it's purely a selfish one! I'm looking for job opportunities in Atlanta... http://coveryourasp.com/Snippet.asp?snip=50 ______ My visit to Microsoft is happening on the 11th, so next time there will be lots of gossip to report. Actually, there probably won't, since I just had to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Microsoft. Mmmm. Thanks Guys! Speak to you later. 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