The HC Update
Just a little bit on what I've been doing lately...
Last week my gf and I went camping. Lots of good and absolutely horrible experiences. A couple highlights:
Two days ago, I gave my presentation “Getting Started with WindowsForms” at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group in Toledo. The crowd was small, but overall I think it went well. I still feel my presentations aren't quite entertaining enough. It's really hard to get across how excited I am about the technologies in addition to getting everyone as excited about it as I am. I saw some smiles and nods and people really thinking about everything so that's good, but I also saw a few people about nodding off, which both are my fault! ;) One thing I really liked about this presentation is its originality. Most presentations I've looked at about .NET (but definitely not all) are very marketing oriented. I wrote my presentation from scratch, making sure to cover everything that I thought was important from the work I've done over the last year or so with WindowsForms. It's also all the things I would've liked to hear about WindowsForms when I was first learning. I'm brutally honest about what I talk about also, so if there's something in WindowsForms that I love or hate, you're going to hear a lot about it and hopefully everyone finds that useful. Be sure to check out the slides and demos if you're interested (sorry if it's really slow to download...you're pulling from my “massive” cable modem upload ;)) and also the Special Thanks slide in the PPT. I mention who I got some info from and also who designed my slides.
On August 19th, I will be giving the same presentation at the Michiana Area .NET Users Group in South Bend. Looking forward to that! :)
Also in the works are two new articles for Advisor. “Making the Switch from Access to MSDE” and “Strongly Typed Collections and WindowsForms DataBinding”. These aren't finished so the titles and content are subject to change.
Also as Duncan hints (at where my blog is listed on MSDN), I will soon be a book author, having written a couple chapters for his new book.