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If you just want the point of the article read the last paragraph, otherwise if you got this far keep going.

You wake up at 2:30AM because you were so tired that you fell asleep at 7PM.  Welcome to the world of the busy programmer.  Many of you probably know exactly what I am taking about or just don’t go to bed until after 2:30AM.  Part of this problem is due to the fact that I am always thinking, coming up with ideas and solutions.  These traits can be look at as a blessing and a curse because I do them all of the time, just ask Matt.  It is a blessing because I am able to help solve difficult problems with logical solutions quickly, but it is a curse because I am always thinking of something new to do or coming up with a new idea that I want Matt’s help to implement.  I appreciate Matt for putting up with me and all my crazy ideas.  Hope that they are as fun for all of you as they are for me.

Time update: 5:15AM
Talk about a distraction.  Who me? Get distracted?  Are we back yet? Oh hi there audience let me tell you what just happened.  Well this is how it went down.  A friend ours, Jake (hi Jake), was kind enough to sign up to be a .NET Regular Guy. Thanks!  I noticed this and was going to check the other people that signed up.  NOTE: Thanks for those that have signed up I will make sure and hook you up.  Well once I checked out who was signed up I was looking around the site as I normally do and I didn’t like the fact that the site wasn’t working right.  So I took the next bit of time to fix the code and make sure everything looked ok and was set up right.  If anyone has some feedback on our site please let us know how we can make it better for you, and by let us know I mean tell Matt =).  Or what we can add to make it a useful site for the Atlanta .NET community. So back to why I started writing this blog.

I have a new idea, image that.  I want to start a weekly blog entry of Atlanta .NET How To’s written by people in the community.  I got this idea after reading Chris Wallace’s follow up blog to our Tale from the Trenches.  Here is the idea, you can tell me if you don’t like it or if you do.  Once a week we will put a blog post called “HOW TO: <whatever is figured out>” on our site from an Atlanta .NET person.  We will have a link to their blog, article, or copy and paste from an email if they send it to us.  If no one in Atlanta writes something that we can link to, which I think would be crazy there are a million people in Atlanta, then Matt or I will write a HOW TO article from the requests of the community.  The idea here is that you will be able to read the HOW TO article and talk to the person through email or at the .NET user groups to ask questions. So thanks to Chris Wallace we will start with his post of HOW TO: Create Dynamic Buttons using GDI+ for WebPages.  Please keep me posted if you read a good how to posting for us.

--Brendon Schwartz