A huge thanks to Benefit Focus for providing us with an awesome meeting facility and to TEKSystems for providing the food! We had a really awesome presentation given by Karl Shifflett on one of the projects he's been developing for a few months now called Mole.
Karl introduced me to Mole a few months ago via e-mail and chat on Community-Credit's discussion forums and I've been a fan since. I was floored that he accepted my invitation to come down to Charleston (a nice 3 hour drive from Charlotte) and speak at our user group. I think the best part about Karl's presentation is that he's *really* into what he's talking about...as he mentioned he could easily go on for hours but I learned so much more about Mole listening to him talk about it last night than I had watching his video's on it previously...so if you have a chance to catch Karl live at a user group, code camp or such, be sure to and get a much more in depth look at what Mole does.
We had some neat prizes to give away. Ted Atchley (Ted - you need a blog) walked away with a full version of Visual Studio 2005 Professional and many others walked away with books. A special thanks to Microsoft for providing Visual Studio and to Microsoft Press, Addison-Wesley, and Apress, for providing the books.