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Follow-up: InstallFest

The Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest hit Jacksonville last night.  I think it was a great event and gave great exposure to our JaxDUG community.  Thanks to two of our SIG leaders, Bayer White (Architecture) and Thomas Bates (ASP.) for coming out and representing.

For those that attended, I want to say congratulations and thanks for coming out.  Don't forget to register your software before the end of of the month.  In fact, if you happen to be reading this and you havent registered for your full version (which was the whole point of the event), then stop reading and do so now.

I also want to thank the team from Microsoft that brought the software: Joe Healy (keep an eye on his site for the pics, particularly the Orcas Orca), Jeff Barnes, Mark Cerretani, and Jim Blizzard.

And I want to give a very special thanks to JaxDUG members Glenn Adams, Chad Cooper, and Phil Langeberg for giving up their own seats on the list and showing up anyway to support the event.

Update[1/25/2008] Joe has loaded up the pictures.  See them at http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=501

Published Friday, January 25, 2008 8:05 AM by jonathanbates

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Bayer White, Connected Systems MVP - .Net Made Easy With WF said:


Last Wednesday, the motto was, "Have laptop, get VS2008"! I attended JaxDug's VS2008 Installfest, where...
January 25, 2008 7:43 PM
 

FredAtMicrosoft said:

In case you guys didn't know, there's also a Heroes Happen Here launch event April 24 in Orlando, if you're interested in getting more info on the new changes to VS2008. ------------------------------------- Fred Reckling Microsoft Grassroots Manager http://www.microsoft.com/2008jointlaunch/
January 30, 2008 7:05 PM
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About Jonathan Bates

Jonathan Bates is the latest President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group.

He has had a long and storied path on the way to I.T. work. At one point, Jonathan had a near Neo-Luddite position about computers, believing them at worst to be the means to humanity's eventual slavery and at best tools for general evil. After landing a job powered by such advanced technologies as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and MS Access, Jonathan began to change his opinion on computers. He began to believe that they might be for more than just improving the display and sound qualities on his Laserdisc movies. In time, he came to see that computers were nothing more than tools, not much different then a hammer (though not as good to drive nails with).

Jonathan Bates is an industry-certified and proven developer and trainer, facilitating the transfer of knowledge from conceptual client request to delivered and implemented solution. Jonathan enjoys sharing his knowledge and understanding about development principals with like-minded people. You can generally find him enjoying good company discussing his personal Unified Theory and how programming can be used to describe it. And if you can't find him, drop him a line with a time and place and he'll find you.

Contact him at jonathan.bates@batener.org.

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