Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild
Date – July 11th, 2007
Topic – Effective Software Developer
Presenter – Joe Walling
Sponsor – Logical Advantage
Attendance – 21
I was somewhat trepid of July’s meeting, since it was the first meeting held on a Wednesday. However, I was pleasantly surprised that we increased our numbers by four this time around. Everything went off without a hitc: the pizza arrived, the presenter arrived, and the people arrived. About the only thing I had to do was introduce the speaker and give away SWAG.
We had an excellent giveaway, thanks to IdeaBlade. The first person selected chose my hastily printed certificate from the tool developer without a second thought. Of course, that paper entitled the lucky person to a DevForce license with a year support (worth 3k)!
Joe gave a great presentation, going in depth on how you can use certain tools to slice development time down to focus on the stuff that matters.
Next month, Karl Shifflett will be presenting on Expression Blend and WPF. I caught his presentation in Charlotte last month, and I thought it was excellent! I expect the turnout to be greater for this, because WPF is just that cool =).