We had our July, 2008 Silverlight User's Group meeting tonight at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix, and considering the heat, we had a decent showing. If I counted correctly, there were 16 there. Some of the attendees were first-time, and it's always good to see new faces.
The Phoenix rock-stars were in attendance: Mike Palermo, Steele Price, Tim Heuer, and Phoenix' newest MVP: Joel Neubeck of Terralever.
Steele gave a great presentation on Top Bananna focusing more on the how than the what this time, demonstrated using Blend to dig under the covers of some of the VSM stuff. Hands-down this is some of the coolness of Silverlight 2, so was good to have someone that knows what they're doing up there talking and answering questions.
Steele raffled off a couple copies of MSDN Premium! -- see? ... don't you wish you'd have been there?
Then we had a bunch of pizza and soft drinks and lots of conversations, and meeting people I didn't know before tonight... Hi Sol :)
Back in the main room for some short discussion and arrangement of who is presenting next month (more in another post later). We finished with a raffle of one copy of VS2008 Pro, provided by Steele and license keys for SnagIt 9 and Camtasia provided through MVP Kathy Jacobs... attending her first Silverlight User's Group meeting.
All-in-all a successful meeting, lots of discussion, networking, learning, swag, and pizza ... what more could you ask for???
Stay in the 'Light!