Last tuesday I went to speak at the Central Florida .NET Users group. My session covered some of the new features in C# and VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. I want to thank Roy and Charlie for inviting me to speak. It was my first users group session.
I had a good time with this group. There were a lot of really good questions and suggestions. I've never had such a huge response. Where were these attendees at my
last SQL Saturday session?
After the session was over I got to hang out with a couple of the attendees at Chili's. Had a beer, some food and some really interesting conversations. One in particular about
Project Euler. I had never heard about it before. It's a really cool site for nerds!
One of the most surprising things I heard that night was the number of employees that attended the users group from a local company. Out of approximately 1000 developers, 2 from the company showed up. 2 out of 1000.... That's just staggering to me. However it's not that surprising. A good number developers do not want to do anything outside of work. I think the reasoning I've heard behind that is if they aren't being paid for it, then why should they do it? The 2 people that showed up were really smart and I enjoyed talking with them.
All in all it was a good night. I got some great feedback, had a good time and enjoyed everything about it. Ok, maybe the two hour drive home at 10:30 P.M. wasn't all that fun but it was worth it...
Sorry for my lack of posts recently. I've been really busy with a few projects that you'll be hearing about shortly.