aussie coder . com

So there is a new series of Alt .NET groups started up for Australia in the capital cities (namely Sydney, Brisbane and Perth).  You can find them at this address: http://ozalt.net/

There is also an email list going on that is not too active at the moment but might gain momentum.

I’m a bit surprised to see the groups created, although I know there is a great interest in furthering learning for development in Australia, as witnessed by the amounts of people that travel from all over the country to attend Code Camp Oz, I wouldn’t have thought there was a whole lot of interest in segregating these groups apart from the Dot Net User Groups already in existence.

I know that the *DNUG system does have some ties to Microsoft, even though our local group has only received passing support occasionally from Microsoft – although they’ve asked if we wanted presenters, it’s not like they have that much to do with us.

But I wouldn’t have thought it’d be that important to start new groups, when I’d personally prefer to see the same ideas behind Alt.NET brought back into the *DNUG groups.  I know in our small group we couldn’t sustain a second group for the township – as well I know that the guys in the group would be open to presentations on anything that could help their .NET development, be it Microsoft technology or anything else.

Anyway, I guess the guys who are behind this have their reasons and I wish the groups well, and hope to hear good things coming out of them – it’d be interesting to see some Aussie guys get involved visibly in the Alt .NET community.

And hopefully some of them might have a session or something back at the Code Camp to let the rest of us know what they’re about!

Hey there and welcome to a new start of a long journey for me.

I’m not sure what this site will end up being but the idea will be to use it more for discussing the technical and development related thoughts going through my head, and to keep my old blog on a more personal, or trivial level.

That being said I’m not starting this off too quickly, and I’m not even sure if it will cover what I am working on, or germinate more into what I see going on in the community and trends.

Anyway, like I said it’s a journey and hopefully I provide some value for others along the way.

Check in later for my first real post!