Unfortunately I had to drive back into the office as soon as I got there, but I was able to help our consumate host Doug Turnure lug tchotchkes into the meeting.  I got to see Jorge Sierra of www.SierraCode.com presenting his mobile QuickBooks POS solution to the group.  Jorge is a C++ programmer and was attempting to show the group how difficult it is to create a polished mobile solution with embedded C++.  Of course, Jorge is a gifted developer and what's difficult for me might be a cakewalk for him.

After Jorge presented for about 30 minutes, Michael Earls got up to give a presentation.  The presentation of XAML was unfortunately not ready to be shown, as it resided on an external harddrive Michael reportedly left on his kitchen counter.  Despite the missing XAML, Michael was ready with another mobility presentation (courtesy of Doug T).

I am sorry that I had to miss the meeting and the snacks afterwards, but I can report that POS2 at Store 8501 down at the client site DID in fact lose nearly 100 transactions with no easy way to recover the data.  That's what I was working on while the rest of the group was grilling Jorge and Michael.

This Thursday is the Atlanta DotNet Book Club meeting.  We're meeting at 6:30 in the bar area of 5 Seasons.  Hopefully Brendon has updated the website (I haven't checked yet).  I don't know what books we're covering, but I'm unwilling to let this book club idea die so we'll be planning out the coming year if nothing else.  Show up and learn about how you can read computer books for fun and maybe even get a free book or two.

-- Matt Ranlett