Yes, Virginia - there will be a meeting of the Boston/New England Windows Mobile User/Developer group this month :-)

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 20th 2008 starting at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA (201 Jones Road, 6th Floor).

This month's meeting will have a developer "flavor", with two topics for discussion:

• "Windows Mobile Device Configuration: A Developer's Perspective"
  While many people are aware of device management and configuration solutions available for Windows Mobile, developers are often surprised to discover that they have the ability to configure devices using the .NET Compact Framework from their own applications. In this presentation, we will look at some of the options available to allow your application to configure such features as WiFi, Bluetooth and more.
• "Sync Me Up! Sync Services for ADO.NET and Sync Framework for Devices"
  As most developers will tell you, the process of developing a data synchronization framework for an application can be an extremely complex process. Microsoft is address this issue through the Microsoft Sync Framework. Two components within this framework include functionality for ADO.NET synchronization and a more generalized synchronization core functionality. If you are responsible for developing Windows Mobile application that moves data from device to server and back, than this presentation should be considered a "must-see".

As always, we will have lots of great items up for grabs in our end-of-meeting raffle.

Hope to see you there!

So, I'm back in Charlotte, NC again. Uneventful flight, a quick bus ride to the Hertz #1 Club Gold area, and a short walk to my rental car...

No, really. NO - seriously. The YELLOWIST CAR EVER. But wait - there's more! What "Daisy Yellow" Chevy Cobalt 2-door would be complete without...

A TAILFIN! Because you KNOW that this baby needs down force with all of the horsepower it's packing ;-)

Well, at least it is a 2-door. If it was a 4-door, I'd have to deal with the people flagging me down for a cab ride.

I was sitting on my JetBlue flight at the gate this past Thursday awaiting pushback and taxi. I look out to my left at the next gate over and what you I see? -

Yep - US Airways is painting some of their jets with NFL logos. My guess is that it is tied in to their hub airport cities. While taxiing, I spotted an Arizona Cardinals-themed jet. I could snap a picture of that one for you Cards fans, though - I was taxiing, and "portable electronic devices are not approved at this time" ;-)

Of course, this suddenly reminded that the coming weekend included the NFL Hall of Fame inductions and... THE FIRST PRESEASON GAME! Ah - life is good again. While I am a sorts addict in general, football has been and always will be my #1 sports passion. From mid-June until mid-July, the presence of only one major sport (baseball) makes me feel as though I am stuck in the middle of desert desperately searching for an oasis. NFL training camps and the preseason remind me that pro and college football are only a few weeks away. Time to fire up the ol' Replay TV recorders and schedule NFL Network recordings. I need my scouting information :-D