Rich Claussen recently announced:
When I heard Matt on Hanselminutes, I knew we had to get him to come speak at PADNUG. It had been long enough since I'd seen him, I didn't realize that he was still right here in the Portland Metro area - Perfect!
Matt and Earth Class Mail are definitely ahead of the curve on using the .NET 3.5 Framework. Not only that, but they came to the platform from LAMP.
| WHAT: | February PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: | Tuesday 02/05/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: | Matt Davis |
| TOPIC: | WCF and LINQ in the Wild
Come out and here first hand war stories and tips & tricks on .NET 3.5 from Matt Davis, Architect at Earth Class Mail. ECM recently converted their bread and butter application to .NET from PHP on Linux, and went live on .NET 3.5 Beta2. Matt will share real world stories and demos about what works and what doesn't, using WCF 3.5's new Web Programming model, LINQ, Compact Framework 3.5, and others recent Microsoft technologies. |
I'll be there, and if you're reading this blog then you should be there as well. I don't think I've ever met Matt Davis, but the Earth Class Mail guys have been hiring a number of the top developers in Portland over the last year, so whatever they're doing has got to be big. I'm really looking forward to this presentation.
If you've never been to a PADNUG meeting and are thinking of attending then now is the time. Overall, the PADNUG meetings are outstanding from a technical standpoint, but it doesn't end there. They give away a good amount of free schwag in books, magazines, software, and who knows what else. There's also been a number of recruiters attending lately, looking for people to fill positions. I probably don't need to say this, but even if you're not looking to change jobs, now is always a good time to network. If you decide to attend and see me there, please feel free to walk up to me, say hi, and ask me about when I'm going to finish fleshing out the PDXUX.Net web site. Trust me, I need all the encouragement I can get.