Last night we met at Boston Billiards for some pool, food and drinks. It was a good time - we had two pool tables and 6 people showed up. It sounds like everyone liked the idea of going out and shooting some pool as a group. So I will schedule this again for early 2009. It was a great way to spend a couple hours after work...just chatting with the guys and shooting pool...and surprisingly for a bunch of .NET developers - learning about how Mac's and IPhones are, in many ways, better than Microsoft technologies. It would be great if we could get a larger crowd - but the small group was great last night. Let me know if West Springfield is too out-of-the-way for people. It's right off of I-91 and they have pretty good bar food. Though, it would have been better if they didn't run out of BBC beer and bacon.
Dan
About dancaron
Dan Caron is MassMutual's Professional .NET Leader and published author. With MassMutual, Dan leads the technical direction for Microsoft .NET application development for the enterprise. For over a dozen years, he has been designing and developing applications with programming technologies that include Microsoft VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, SQL and AJAX. Dan is also the new leader of the Western Mass. .NET Users Group.
Dan is an author of two technical books (Professional DotNetNuke 4.0 and DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals). He has been a major contributor to the DotNetNuke open-source portal project since the core team was founded in 2003. Some of his noteworthy contributions include the exception handling framework, event logging provider, event viewer, module security redesign, web-farm support, namespace hierarchy organization and the event scheduler. Dan is now an alumnus of the DotNetNuke Core Team and Board of Directors. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2005 and 2006.
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