Lately i've seen a lot of "hysterics" from the Open-Source community about Ruby and how Ruby is going to take development to another level and how the Microsoft .Net platform is shaken and loosing followers. Haven't we seen this all before? PHP was the biggest thing since sliced cheese...
Today I had the longest presentation i've yet to do - nearly 4hrs long - for Perth Central Tafe, a tertiary educational institution. I broke the presentation down into 4 main groups: .Net Framework - Overview of a development platform ASP.Net - Working with the web ADO.Net - Data manipulation and beyond...
Nick Randolph decided to band the Perth bloggers together and form a World Domination Consortium - the aim is to take over the world, one blog at a time... ok, not really, but it had initially such an evil sound to it. But for real, he has just set up a blogging network for those living in Perth, Western...
Together with Charles Stirling , David Lemphers , Michael Kleef , Mitch Wheat and the rest of the UG presidents here in Perth, we're trying to organise an event very much like Code Camp held in the eastern states (Wagga Wagga). Charles Stirling , the sexiest developer in the world, has dubbed the next...
Nick Randolph pointed me in the right direction for some public transport entertainment...namely Podcasts. Now i do roughly 2 1/2 hours of travel on the not-so-brilliant public transport (TransPerth) and spending the time listening to 4-5 screaming kids or two elderly ladies discussing knitting recipees...
My trustworthy designer, Andrew "Gerkin" Erkins has created the minimalistic design that i asked for. one of the pet projects i'm trying to get off the ground is a C#.Net community - enter stage right, www.csharpzealot.com . The design is done,now i just need to start coding up the site...