Morning....

Well...went to the Arizona Dot Net User Group (AZDNUG) meeting last night. It was very cool. The presenter was Rob Howard -- the  program manager for ASP.net , a website created by Microsoft for developers and user to come together and a place to find code and tools.

 It was a very good presentation, covering Visual Studio Tip's and Trick's and kind of a drill down of how the ASP.net site works. He went into the functionality of how the ASP.net forums work, which was very beneficial for me because i installed the ASP.net forums on my server last week. I hope to use the code on a production site here at work soon. the code base is awsome...everything is OOP and separate the layer amazingly well. you can actually build another forum page without having to re compile the application.

The Tip's and Trick's section of the talk was nice...but most of the topics not very advanced as i knew them already. The discussion and demonstration of caching was a real eye opener, we use page caching and i knew it made a real difference in page load times...but Rob demonstrated a page with and without caching and the difference was astonishing! I also decided to start stress testing my apps, just to find out how well the hold up.

Ok...enough nerd stuff...everything else is great!

-j