This week the C# group was small and still recovering from the holidays.  Rather than present a prepared technical presentation, we decided that Chinese food and Xbox should be the order of the day.  Actually, the order was more like Xbox (watch out for Sanin in Halo - he's a great sniper), Chinese food (where Keith talked about how he was forced to second guess the GC process), and then more Xbox (Don't ever play Unreal with Michael E. - he kicked my butt and it's my game!)

The C# group met at my place since we didn't want to drive up to the new MS offices on Mansell Rd.  We're looking for a new place, and we've set Paul Lockwood (with his amazing list of contacts) on the task.  I think he's already got something up his sleeve.

Just a heads up for the next presentation - Paul wants to give us a Round 2 presentation on NUnit - Advanced Unit Testing.  I don't get to use anything like NUnit on a daily basis but I love the idea.  I'm looking forward to the presentation - he's always got a great knowledge of what he's presenting.  Well, ok, most of the time he knows what he's talking about.  Just don't ask him anything about cars.  I don't think he quite has the hang of those yet.  Kidding!  He's got to be the most knowledgable car nut I've ever met, and I used to be friends with a mechanic!

I'm glad we managed to get together for the meeting.  I had a great time kicking back and I think that it put me in the mood for some more UG meetings in general.  Next up - SQL Server on Monday and VB on Wednesday.  The SQL Server meeting will focus on optimizing Reporting Services and the VB group will mostly be looking at addins and toys.  I'm supposed to present a book review but I haven't read a book (a technology book) yet so I'd better get to reading!

-- Matt Ranlett