June, 2002      Diablo Blue     Page 3

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·          Network Security administrators

Areas of interest include:

·          Security issues

·          Assisting developers in making make the transition to the object oriented .NET environment

·          Learning about developing web services

·          Learning more about how .ADO works conceptually

·          Getting to know other .NET developers

We plan to achieve our objectives by:

·          Offering presenters to speak of different .NET issues

·          Having round-table code center

·          Having Question and Answers (random access) sessions to address specific coding issues

·          Social time getting to know other developers

Immediate plans are:

Develop a web site of services for group members to talk to each other. The purpose is to provide a forum for developers to learn, share, and grow. As of now, the domain name MountDiablo.net has been reserved for this group.

The group will register with INETA, an umbrella organization of .NET user groups.

Upcoming meeting:

Thursday, May 16, 2002 in the Community Room at the Concord Police Department building.

Mike Wolfe, MCSE and Microsoft Technology specialist will speak on security issues and answer questions from the audience.

Bob Erickson, Microsoft .NET development specialist, will demonstrate a stock broker application.

Question and Answer session.

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site. (Before anyone gets excited, the camera is pointing out of my office window, which is about as boring as it can get.) To accomplish this task you need a camera — I am using a $20 Logitech webcam and software that will take the picture and FTP (file transfer protocol) the image to your website.

As far as I know, no webcam comes with this software although some cameras do come with software which allow you to upload pictures to their site where you can establish a gallery.

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