I noticed today that MapQuest now has an Aerial View of their maps. If that has been there long… oh well… shows how long it has been sense my last visit to the site.

I decided to pull up my house (similar to a previous post)

Looks good to me!!! Let’s zoom in another click.

Huh… where did my house go??? Hurricane? Tornado? Huh… does not even look like it zoomed in?

Craziness!!! And yes… both of these are from MapQuest!!!

This will be the first time we have done anything like this… so brace yourself. 

Pee Dee Area .NET Users Group
April 10th 6:00 – 8:00
Directions: here

April 10th’s Meeting will be held in two parts. (Make plans to attend now)

Part 2: Normal meeting at 6:00. Brian Hitney (structuretoobig.com), a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft will be speaking on Windows Vista Internals and Architecture.

Part 1: Brain will be speaking to the PDANUG users at 2:30 – 5:00. ACS Technologies will be hosting the event at their location in Florence. (Directions below). He will be discussing how to better build scalable web solutions with .NET. He will discuss Windows Communication Foundation if time permits.

**SPECIAL NOTE**
If any member of PDANUG would like to attend the 1st session hosted at ACS Technologies, PLEASE let me know ASAP (). I am trying to finalize plans, space, and snacks!!! Brian said he was going to bring 10 XBOX 360s to give away… Just Kidding…

Special Instructions: Directions here. Google maps does not get the exact location correct but it gets on the correct street. The actual location is closer to the other end of the road near the intersection of I95 & I20. You can’t miss the buildings. “ACSTechnologies” will be on the building. If you are attending; the meeting will be in the Khaki colored building on the left… not the “Salmon” colored building.

PDANUG finally has an RSS feed.

Please subscribe to stay informed of future Pee Dee Area .NET User Group Events.

Please, spread the word!!!

I want to personally invite you to attend the Pee Dee Area .NET User Group meeting, on March 13th, to learn more about ClickOnce Deployments in .NET. Jamey McElveen of ACS Technologies will be presenting. The presentation will include the basics of deploying with click once through the Visual Studio 2005 tools. Also, a brief introduction to customizing end user experience using the ClickOnce client API’s.

There will be a couple of nice ACS giveaways too…

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Location: (here for directions)
McLeod Medical
800 Cheves St.
Florence, SC 29506

The April 10th meeting will be presented by Brian Hitney, Developer Evangelist with Microsoft. He will be doing a deep dive into the Vista kernel and architecture experience.

There is a cool feature with Google Reader that I recently started using.

They provide a way to share your favorite read items (in your massive blog roll) with others.

While reading blog entries in Reader, simply click the share link and Reader will add it to your shared list.

There are two ways to make this list visible to others.

• You can integrate into your very own blog (For an example, visit the site and look on the left at section titled: What’s Chris Reading).
• There is also an RSS Feed.

I got Page hooked on Reader, how about you?

If you have Messenger, this may be for you. You can now help raise money for charity.

It is called “I’m”, which is short for “I’m Making a Difference”

From the live.com website.
“Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes”

You simply have to add a special code to your display name in Messenger. That simple.

I am supporting the American Red Cross, but there are other options.

***Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is required