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At the Interface company meeting today, Mike LaGioia (the owner) awarded gifts to all the employees based on a point system we called IBucks.  The person with the highest IBucks was able to choose first from a selection of great gifts (surround sound systems, HDTV's, IPods, and yep... XBOX 360 consoles).  I was number 16 on the list, and that provided me the opportunity to choose an XBox 360 premium console packaged with Project Gothom Racing 3, an additional wireless controller, and other accessories.

This week at Interface I taught the Microsoft 2310B ASP.NET class.  The content was delivered without a single slide, and in most cases, the courseware wasn't referenced.  Most of the delivery was from code samples.  Although the class turned out well, I did not have the euphoria I reached when I taught the C# class last week.  In the C# class, I had students inherit from a "Warrior" base class and override virtual | abstract methods to define warrior specific behaviors.  I then collected all the "Warrior" sub-types, and placed them in an Arena (Windows app) to see which warrior would win.  In the first tournament, Bruce the Chinese Cook took the championship.  After introducing delegates and events, everyone made adjustments to his class, and we had a final tournament.  The final winner was Red Bear the Cheyenn warrior.  Other warrior types worthy of mention are:  SuperBannana, Mace the Jedi, MonkeyAbuser, StickyFigure, TrashTalker, Ronin, and Crazy Female Driver.  At the end of it all, each student's grasp of polymorphic behavior was the best I have ever seen.  Great class.

Thanks to all the students in my 2310B ASP.NET class at Interface this week.  Click the link below for all my class samples.  Enjoy!

Watch the video (created by Tim Heuer) regarding GotCodeSnippets.NET that was launched at the PDC Showoff and now available on Channel 9.

You can now search for uploaded code snippets at http://www.GotCodeSnippets.net/

Just got out of the keynote address.  A few things to note:

The show (starring yours truly) is now available for listening!  [Click here]

GotCodeSnippets.net is now up and running!  This is a community site that allows developers to upload and share code snippets for use in Visual Studio 2005.