I Am Not Myself

The South Sound .NET User Group is proud to announce an evening with Justin Bozonier this coming Thursday night. The meeting will be held at our usual time of 7:00-9:00PM at the Olympia Center (222 Columbia NW, Rm 101). Justin Bozonier has been working as a professional programmer since 2004 at companies such as Microsoft, [...]

Last weekend, I attended and presented at the Seattle Code Camp. The entire weekend was chock full of great one hour presentation. And the entire thing was recorded. Here is a list of my favorites with direct links. Ruby for Noobs – Me 8) jQuery for the Unconvinced – Scott Koon Progressive JavaScript – Jeff [...]

Please join us on Thursday, November 12th for a presentation by Eric Lee on "Common Anti-Patterns in Legacy Code & How to Work Your Way Out of Them" About the Presentation: One of the most dreaded phrases in software engineering are the words “legacy code”. You know what that means: old, nasty code that gives [...]

So last week I threw up the bat signal to the internets in an effort to help my local user group find some speakers for the coming months. The response has been great and I have successfully booked some great speakers. I set a goal to book six months of “no wizard based demo” speakers [...]

The amazing Camey has been organizing speakers for the South Sound .NET Users Group longer than I have been a participating member. She recently received the bouncing bundle of joy visit from the stork and needs some well deserved time off. She asked if I could take over the reigns and gather up some folks [...]

Work on the Olympia Software Craftsmanship Workshop is coming along nicely. We announced the workshop on May 5th and have 20 people signed up already. If you are interested in attending, secure your seat ASAP. Only 15 seats left. So what progress has been made on the materials? The amazing Trevor has been working hard [...]