Tonight I'm finishing off my three city tour demonstrating my ThinqLinq website. The tour started in Mobile, Alabama at the fourth Alabama code camp. They had a great turnout considering how new the group was and the fact that there were flood and tornado warnings around the area. Dispite that, they still had 110 show and I would estimate that 80 were still hanging around at the end for the swag. At the last minute, the agenda was changed to put two LINQ talks up against each other. Florida Developer Evangelist, Joe Healy, and I each had about 25 people even though they were scheduled at the same time. As a contrast, when I presented at the second Alabama Code camp last year, I only had about 9 people. LINQ sure does seem to be picking up steam!
Monday night, I spoke at the Huntsville, Alabama user group. Kudos to Sujata and the folks over there with the group over there as well. It was also great to hook up with fellow INETA Membership Mentor, Dan Wygant.
Tonight, I'm presenting ThinqLinq at the Atlanta Visual Basic Study Group. If you're in the area, come on up to the DeVry university in Alpharetta and see how Visual Studio Orcas will help make life easier to program data driven websites with LINQ.
If you want the code for the presentations, I have it available along with the database in the file section here. Don't worry about the license agreement, that's just the standard Community Server one. The download is available at http://devauthority.com/files/13/jwooley/entry38500.aspx. The site is primarily a proof of concept and rather bare bones at the moment. Feel free to make recommendations on enhancements as long as you share them with us so that we can all benefit. Hopefully one of these days when I'm not so busy with the book, I'll actually post the site live.
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