Hello Listeners,

If you are in the Detroit area, please fill out our survey to help me and the rest of the board guide the group in the ways that can best server the South-Eastern Michigan area. We are doing what we think is best, but we'd all like some feedback, especially from those that are not coming currently.

If you are not coming, please let us know why and what would entice you to come.

If you are coming, please let us know what we are doing right and what we are doing slightly less that perfectly.

Either way, please pass this URL around to all of your friends, co-workers and anyone else that might be in our demographic. That includes .NET Developers (Obviously), those interested in .NET, managers who managed developers and so on. Post this on your blogs, email it, tell people about it and other mechanisms that you can think of to get it around to your friends.

Thank you,
Josh Holmes
VP of GANG
Program Chair of GANG

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:12:06 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Tim Landgrave, Regional Director from Kentucky and a great speaker, will be doing the main presentation on "Developing Enterprise Class Web Services using the .NET Framework" starting at 7:00.

I'm going to give the tutorial session on "Introduction to Web Services" starting at 6:00.

We will also be doing unprecedented giveaways as we give away a copy of VS.NET 2003 Professional, a number of books including Writing Secure Code 2, ASP.NET 2.0 books and more, t-shirts and more.

Bring a friend to increase your chances of winning!

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:58:58 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

I’m honored to be in INETA Speaker Bureau with such influential developers as Martin L. Shoemaker, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Rocky Lhotka and Juval Lowy, just to name a few. INETA helped get the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group (GANG) off the ground by supplying great speakers, such as Richard Hale Shaw, Chris Kinsman and Tom Barnaby (Now with Microsoft and I can't find his new blog), as well as advice on logistical setup of the meetings and the user group leaders forums. My goal is to help other user groups as much as these great speakers have helped my group.

There were 9 of us added at the same time:

John Alexander
Miguel Castro
Bill Evjen
Julie Lerman
Chris Menegay
Ted Pattison
Les Pinter
Bill Vaughn
Me

It gets better as I've already been scheduled to speak through INETA at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group on October 25th.

Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:57:03 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

I know that it's not a big deal to some others, but I'm really happy that I've got commenting available on my blog now.

Try it out - comment on this post. :)

Keep in mind that it is a moderated comment channel so there will be some lag between post and visible.

Friday, September 02, 2005 3:30:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Effective C#, my business partner's (Bill Wagner) book, was translated into Hungarian. I just think that it's cool!

	Hatékony C#
	Hatékony C# == Effective C#
	http://www.kiskapukiado.hu/main.php?SHOW_BODY=books&OP=detailed&PROD_ID=102

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:14:17 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

I'll be speaking the Dayton .NET Developers Group on 8/24/2005 about WSE 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.

I was invited my Jim Holmes. He's no relation to me - just a good friend.

John Hopkins will also be speaking there on the Dotfuscator and what it's capabilities are.

	Dayton .NE Developers Group
	.NET Users Group in Dayton Ohio
	http://www.daytondevgroup.net/

Monday, August 22, 2005 2:54:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Microsoft has a loaded RV that they are taking to Grand Rapids on August 2nd from 8:30 to 5:00. There's a free lunch. It's a free event, but you should RSVP.

When it came to Ann Arbor, it was mostly stuff like Exchange, Mappoint, Licensing, Small Business Server and so on. However, it was really good information and it was worth the trip to see the RV. It's got highspeed everywhere because of the really solid satelite system. It's loaded with computers, networks and everything else I'd love to have in a completely mobile office...

Friday, July 22, 2005 6:40:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

It's part tech, part fun, all Martin...

	Tablet UML News Blog
	Martin Shoemaker's Blog
	http://www.tabletumlnews.com/

Saturday, July 16, 2005 4:15:55 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

PreEmptive Solutions, the creaters of the Dotfuscator, have a new blog and it's on MSDN.

Be sure to send them all of your great questions about how and why to obfuscate. The Dotfuscator Team loves getting good questions...

	.NET Obfuscator
	PreEmptive's MSDN Blog
	https://blogs.msdn.com/obfuscator/

Friday, July 08, 2005 6:31:58 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Bill Wagner, my business partner and author of Effective C#, is doing a web cast on Monday, July 11, at 2:00 Eastern Time.

Friday, July 08, 2005 6:11:21 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]