June 2008 Entries
Have you heard of devLink and the great time you will have there learning from such .NET greats as Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell, Paul Nielsen, Ted Neward, Wally McClure and Charlie Calvert? If that was not enough I will also be speaking there!! If that is not excitement to get you there and you live in Michigan or Ohio there is also the devLink Bus that will be leaving first from my town of Grand Rapids and travel through Michigan and Ohio to bring the cool kids to the MTSU campus for the devLink conference. Sign up now to...
I am taking up the Mike Eaton Challenge and documenting my programming history. How old were you when you started programming? I was 12 years old developing on an Apple II and TRS-80. How did you get started in programming? I bought a used Apple II and received a TRS-80 for Christmas roughly the same time. I was fascinated by the games I could play and wanted to learn how they programmed them and to see if I could make a game or two just for fun. My first game...
"And, in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make." – The Beatles So with a lot of new energy around the Community there is a need to clarify some of my thoughts around why we as Community Leaders give and for what reasons. I would be lying of I said that I did all the speaking, helping to lead a .NET User Group and volunteer to work on community events totally out of the goodness of my heart. I can tell you that I try to give more than I take from...