Shane Henderson | Life at Match.com

Scott Dockendorf and I have a creative wager going for our next North Dallas .NET Users group meeting.  Since we are GIVING AWAY A FREE COPY OF CODESMITH PROFESSIONAL to all attendees, Scott thinks we will have over 200 people in attendance.  I am pretty sure that we can't reach 200 for the month.  If I am wrong, I have agreed to pay Scott (our Program Manager) $50 of my own hard earned cash.  So come prove me wrong!   In addition to the free Codesmith license, we are going to have a ton of giveaways!  All proceeds from the wager will be donated to a charity...

Rob Howard Founder, CEO »telligent

SPECIAL FOR ALL REGISTERED & RSVPed MEMBERS!

North Dallas .NET User Group Meeting Presenter: Rob Howard, Founder, CEO, Telligent. Topic: CodeSmith Tips & Tricks Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Time: 6:00pm About This Session: “CodeSmith is an advanced, template-driven code generation tool that helps software developers be more productive. In this session we’ll explore some of great tips and tricks that show off some of the awesome capabilities of this tool. The format will be fast paced and cover everything from custom templates, showing off news feature of CodeSmith 3.0, and using some of the awesome built-in templates. All registered attendees will also receive a full working version of CodeSmith 3.0 (a $399 value!). Be sure to register with nddnug.net now, so you can attend this event – space is limited!” About the Speaker: Rob Howard is the founder of »telligent, a Microsoft .NET software company specializing in collaboration and knowledge management tools and professional services. Prior to founding »telligent Rob worked for Microsoft where he helped design ASP.NET 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. If you want more information about Telligent or want to chat with Rob send him an email at rhoward@telligent.com.

In order to receive your copy of CodeSmith 3.0, we ask that you:

• Register with our website if you have not done so already
   (Click the Register link in the top right hand corner of the site)
• RSVP to the meeting invitation which will be sent out on
  7/27 (Wednesday) and 8/1 (Monday)
• Attend the meeting (make sure to sign in at the front)

Match.com (my employer for the last 5 years)  is being featured as one of the tools that 11 women use on ABC prime time to find dates online.  It's a mini series called "Hooking up" that's on Thursday's at 8:00 PM CST. 

It's incredibly surreal to see a site that you helped build from the ground up in C# and ASP.NET being used in a real life documentary on prime time.  Currently our web farm gets over 45 million page hits per day and we have over 15 million members, all searching for love.  We are seeing some pretty good traffic spikes after the series runs and the web farm doesn't skip a beat.  I'll talk to the systems guys and see if I can post some more numbers...

On a side note, I got new glasses today and the lady that I bought them from told me her best friend just got married to a guy she met on Match.com...just another reason why my job is so fulfilling.