This is a dump of ideas just so I won’t forget them, if you want to wait for Matt to clean it up that should come tomorrow.

Oh sorry that was William, but I had a great time either way talking with Chris who is the first person to do the “Tale of Trenches” aka “Atlanta RockStar Lounge” not that I support anybody being a RockStar I just liked the name. While re-reading that last sentence I thought that might have a chance for longest run-on sentence ever. Any, we had a great time and I am very glad he made it out to the VB.NET Study Group first with me and then talked to me at chilies afterwards. I am not really sure how we are going to do the posts for this segment, but I am just posting my ideas for tonight so I will not forget them. I don’t want to do a poor job because Chris made the effort of coming out for the night even though I think we had a flash flood. You can tell this is a little choppier than so of our usual posts because Matt was sick and could not make it out to the User Group meeting or the talk with Chris. Now that I have you caught up on what happened up to this point I will move on with the Tale. Ohhhhhhh

Do all programmers watch CSI and without a trace or is it just that me and Chris are that cool and have a lot in common. It appears he works on computers all the time (like 18 hours a day) and still enjoys learning. Yes I know you work more than 18 hours a day on the computer, put your name in the comments and maybe I will talk with you next. =). I am a little tired so don’t take my jokes the wrong way please. In fact we might not have this post up tomorrow, just depends on the format. Back to our story.

Let me tell you this guy is a one man shop. We talked about how he has control of the servers that he works on and how this is a blessing and a curse all at the same time. This is because he has to maintain them, but he has the ability to change what he needs for his applications. We were talking about how he used to be on DotNetJunkies and would blog there, but changed over to his new site where he has made some modifications (mods for those cool people) to his version of .Text that he has running. He switched over to http://www.webhost4life.com which really looks like a great deal. He said since his switch he has had a little bit of drop off in the people that read his blog, but he is hoping that people just haven’t totally moved over yet. Move People Move. I was going to ask the standard questions that people wanted us to ask, but he was such a nice guy and kept the conversation moving well that he answered things without me having to ask. You wanted to know things like why did he pick .NET, well he had been working on HTML, ASP, and VB and it was the next step. Actually one reason he moved to it is that he has a web app that hits the server about once every minute or so. Now this started out with a client size of about 10, but then grew to be a ton of people so he need a performance boost. .NET gave him that boost by cutting his CPU performance from 80% utilization to under 45%. He can comment on the actual numbers if I got them wrong. This app he has worked on is a scheduling app that uses colored buttons to tell different type of information. Something cool that he is working on now is reading about GDI+ and he is going to come up with a way to create the button from different colors on the fly and different text from the database so he doesn’t have to create a graphic every time there is a need for a new button color. I had asked him if he worked on any mobility or tablet pc or anything and unfortunately he hadn’t, but he said he is going to buy one at the beginning of March and he did have a cool Blackberry phone that he showed me my website from at the restaurant. I guess matt and I better work on making it mobility friendly. Matt might go have some lunch with him and get more info, but for now at 12:15AM that is all I have. We will clean this up and come up with a format to let you know about him in a more organized way, but thanks for reading. Have fun and let us know if you have a good story to tell.

--Brendon Schwartz