.NET is a go

Well, the Calgary .NET User's Group is finally on its feet after a two year hiatus - we have finally received MCAD/MCSD certification books from Microsoft and we are forming manageable groups for studying for the exams. Also, as one of the managers, I know that we have a speaker booked for the end of June - I just hope that there will be enough interest to overcome the summer lull in interest. Overall though, it seems that the group is starting strong again.

Also, I just wrote the first test in the Last Developer Standing competition that is being put on by Microsoft Canada. I only got 6 out of 10, should have done better, but it is difficult trying to think of software issues in terms and words. Hopefully I'll make it to the next round - I'm not sure how that works - possibly passing those beyond the average?

I'm working slowly on three different projects, one for a friend and two for money. The one that should be taking not much time, a project that I took on the understanding that it was just putting a site back onto the web is a nightmare - missing files, little documentation, no general over-arching plan of what the application looked like originally. It is in ASP and JavaScript - with the number of key files that are missing, it would be faster for me right now to re-write the whole thing in .NET than to try to reconstruct the missing pages...

On the other hand, I got a temp webpage up today for my friend Kyle's company, Rockies Bio-Diesel. Now to design a good page for him, further extending my portfolio for my company. My other client, Pinnacle Consulting Services, still has a temp page, but I've got my client near to choosing a final design for the site after we have been through several different layouts and color schemes. Not what I would like, but my job is to make my client happy. The actual content shouldn't be too bad (*fingers crossed*), and then it is creating some dynamic pages with PHP.

So busy times here in Cowtown for me...