November 10, 2006
I attended the Philippine .NET Users Group's (PHINUG) Tech Sharing last Wednesday night. As a speaker. My brother Jerome is the president of PHINUG and I sort of volunteered to make a presentation. I was supposed to present some of the things I learned about Sharepoint at work, but I couldn't find the time to set up a Windows Server 2003 Virtual PC image (Sharepoint doesn't run on Windows XP) so I changed my topic to multithreading in .NET 2.0 instead.
I've forgotten when was the last time that I participated in a Microsoft event. I've been practically invisible to the Microsoft community for over a year now. "punzki" used to be one of the most active members in msforums.ph but he simply disappeared one day. I wasn't surprised at all when my MVP status wasn't renewed last month.
(What, you didn't know? That's okay, I don't think I ever blogged about it. I enjoyed my two years as an MVP and my only regret was that I failed to live up to it.)
It was tremendously nerve-wracking to be speaking in public. I had gotten used to it a long time ago, but on Wednesday night I was sweating profusely a mere minute into my 15-minute presentation. I think my presentation and my topic was a bit too "heavy" for the time alloted, but all in all, it went fairly well. It was really nice to see old and new faces alike in the Microsoft developer community. I hope to be appearing in more Microsoft/PHINUG events soon.
You can download my slides and examples here (courtesy of fileXoom).
I've forgotten when was the last time that I participated in a Microsoft event. I've been practically invisible to the Microsoft community for over a year now. "punzki" used to be one of the most active members in msforums.ph but he simply disappeared one day. I wasn't surprised at all when my MVP status wasn't renewed last month.
(What, you didn't know? That's okay, I don't think I ever blogged about it. I enjoyed my two years as an MVP and my only regret was that I failed to live up to it.)
It was tremendously nerve-wracking to be speaking in public. I had gotten used to it a long time ago, but on Wednesday night I was sweating profusely a mere minute into my 15-minute presentation. I think my presentation and my topic was a bit too "heavy" for the time alloted, but all in all, it went fairly well. It was really nice to see old and new faces alike in the Microsoft developer community. I hope to be appearing in more Microsoft/PHINUG events soon.
You can download my slides and examples here (courtesy of fileXoom).
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