Swimming in the Global Talent Pool

Link to Article

Interesting article on the evolving IT job marketplace. Could be subtitled "or, How to Get a Job Anywhere in the World".

"Thriving in today's ... market requires ...'relevance.' "

"If you're 45 and plan to work until you're 65, you're going to be forced to embrace this."

"I'll talk to an IT guy with 15 years of experience who knows three or four different programming languages and has really good system experience. Then I start talking about phishing or blogs or PHP, and they look at me like, 'Huh?'. I don?t expect you to do that stuff, but at least you should have heard of it."

.Net Developer Users SIG Links

List of talked about links from tonight's session of Cleveland .Net Developers SIG

MyGeneration - Code Generation, O/R Mapping, and Architectures
http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/portal/default.aspx

MindCrafted Systems, Inc.
http://www.mindcrafted.com/
http://www.clevelanddotnet.info/presentations/CodeGenerators.pdf

NHibernate for .NET
http://www.hibernate.org/343.html

Microsoft patterns & practices Home
http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/

Some Vista/Visual Studio Stuff

SSW Rules to Better Windows Vista Deployments

Taking Advantage of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for Developing and Maintaining .NET 1.1 and 2.0 Applications in Microsoft Windows Vista (whitepaper)

SSW Rules to Better Virtual PCs

These are couple of articles on how to do VS development with Vista development.

Windows Vista RTM - Demonstation of Windows ReadyBoost

In this video, a user tested how fast Windows Vista boots to the desktop with and without a 512MB SD card.