Silence of the bits...

Yikes. Four weeks of no updates. I hate going that long but luckily, work has kept me busy with some .NET stuff so I can't really complain. Been busy with a couple of things outside of work too:

Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group (GANG)

I've taken over the "webmaster" responsibilities for our local .NET user group, GANG. We got a lot of traffic at our booth during DevDays 2004 Detroit and attendance is picking up. Last week we had Paul Kimmel discussing the CodeDOM and how to generate source code on the fly. Very interesting stuff. Next month is Godfrey Nolan and "Creating a .NET Obfuscator".

Volunteer-IT.org

Along with GANG, some other regional .NET user groups have formed Volunteer-IT.org, a non-profit organization that will utilize the volunteer efforts of it's members to provide software development services to other non-profits -- in .NET, of course! It's a win-win since the non-profit's get help at a great price (free!) while local developers who may not have the ability to use .NET at work can get some real development time with .NET.

One last thing: If you ever run into a situation during coding or design where you say, "I should blog this", try and do it right away. I had a couple things over the past few weeks I meant to blog about, but put it off and never got it posted. And now I can't remember what it was...