Back in the saddle...
It's been quite a while since I've made the time to blog, and for that I apologize! I've been quite busy this year- CodeMash in January, on the road a lot, had a child in April, and made a career change in Oct. Boy does time fly!
So what have I been up to... During most of 2007, I spent a lot of time internally managing many of the software development projects, including a pilot implementation of MOSS (SharePoint) and projects from an SOA proof of concept to implementing BI. In October I decided it was finally time to move on (after 5 1/2 years) and started in a new role as a technical architect and engagement manager with Perficient. I am very happy with this move, and especially excited to be working with a fellow MVP, co-user group leader and friend- Jason Follas.
Community wise, I just presented at the last Northwest Ohio .NET User Group meeting on the topic of "Developing with Windows XNA for the Xbox 360". It was more of a high-level presentation that covered many of the basics. I walked through a great example called "Cops and Robbers", created by George Clingerman, an XNA MVP. George did a great job illustrating good design and a straight forward approach to development using XNA. You can check it out by going to his site- http://www.xnadevelopment.com/tutorials/copsandrobbers/copsandrobbers.shtml . Additionally, the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group (which I founded and co-lead with Jason) is growing and we are planning on taking things to the next level in 2008.