Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

Thanks to Microsoft for the invite to the Halo 3 Pre-Launch event.  Everyone is talking about this.  I get the opportunity to play a little Halo 3 while other people are sitting in long lines waiting for the clock to turn to 12:01am!  Too cool.  I spent a few minutes and created a little "I'll be there" tag.  Feel free to copy/swipe/modify/abuse as you see fit!

Last night was our monthly GANG meeting and we had local DE Jennifer Marsman giving a talk on Windows Workflow (WF).  It was a great talked and we had really good turnout.  Here's some pictures!

Since I've got about zero hours of experience using AJAX and haven't done a "serious" ASP.NET app in over a year, I found Joel Sposky's latest post pretty interesting.  It'll be fun to see how all of this stuff plays out...

Local Developer Evangelist Jennifer Marsman will be presenting at GANG tomorrow on Windows Workflow.  Here's the abstract:

I was at SRT's offices for their first "major" (as in more than 5 attendees) hosted event last Wednesday.  The Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group had Mike Wood in town to give a talk on Windows Workflow (WF).  The presentation was awesome and opened up my eyes to WF.  I saw an immediate benefit to some work I'm doing at a current client.  But, alas, it is not meant to be.  This client still runs Windows 2000 on the majority of their machines so .NET 3.x is out of the question (for now).

Bill Wagner talks about why we finally got some office space.  I've got some pictures here that I took when I visited our new offices for last weeks AADND meeting.  The office space is really nice and I wished I lived closer so I could visit more often.  It just doesn't make sense to commute for 70 - 80 minutes (one way).  That's a lot of billable time lost!  However, I plan on being there from time to time for special events and other things that SRT will be hosting.

This is so simple, it's beautiful.  A very elegant way of dealing with Enums.

I thought that once school started, I'd be able to get caught up on blogging since the kids would be at school most of the day.  But since then, work has gotten busier and my evenings are packed with after-school activities and sports...