So today our company ObjectSharp placed a bid for 5 of the individuals on the .NET Celebrity Auction. Firstly, it sucks that max bids are not shown for a charitable auction. I would encourage any winners who didn't get to their max bid, to still donate the full amount to ACEH.
Now having said that, what would *we* do with 5 .NET Celebrities? Hmmm
- Scott Hanselman, I'm going to ask you to give a 1 hour MSDN webcast about how easy it is to build a Smart Client Application using datasets and marshal them across web services.
- Clemens Vasters, I'm going to ask you to give a talk on rapidly building data driven applications with Windows Forms using SqlDataAdapters and dynamic SQL. (No stored procs allowed).
- Kimberly L. Tripp, how about a MSDN webcast on building mission critical, enterprise scale applications with MS Access.
- Joel Semeniuk, you're going to give a talk about building rich user interfaces with ASP.NET and client side javascript.
- Stephen Forte, Essential C++ Managed Extensions
- Richard Campbell. Creating a Business Intelligence Solutions using the ODBC driver for CSV files.
- John Lam, a 1 hour talk on Understanding the Unexpected Reactions of Hyrdoxybenzylthiamin. Ok, so he would actually enjoy this, but for my 1 hour of time, I'll watch it and try to learn something.
- Kate Gregory has also said she would willingly join me in a head shaving.
- And of course there is the thought of the .NET Celebrity Winter Car Wash!
Thoughts? Any of you feel like outbidding me?