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Olympia InstallFest -- full to bursting

Wow, what an event we had last Thursday. We had close to 150 geeks, many of whom brought their laptops so they could install Visual Studio 2008. A couple even brought full sized desktop machines.

Here are some shots from my Treo 650. South Sound .Net has never had a meeting this big, so it was quite a nice surprise to see so many gathered.

Big thanks to Jason Mauer of Microsoft for initiating the event and providing copies of VS2008 and food for all. Don Cotey for making food arrangements with Ramblin Jacks (a local purveyor of yumminess) and to Paul Mehner, SSDotNet Leader, for all the wonderful things he does. And to all the folks who helped set up tables and chairs and staff the registration table.

Big week for SSDotNet

South Sound .NET has two events scheduled for this week:

On Tuesday, we've got the Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest. We've had a huge response, somewhere between 150 and 200 people. That means we are completely booked for that event, so if you haven't registered already, consider attending the Seattle (12/17) or Bellingham (12/18) events.

On Thursday, our regular meeting day, we have Charlie Poole presenting on NUnit 3.0, the latest and greatest:

There are many reasons why organizations would select using NUnit as their unit testing tool of preference, and even more reasons why you might be interested in the evolution of NUnit version 3.0. Charlie Poole has created a vision statement and discussion list for the new version of NUnit, and many of us have been actively attempting to work out the details of what should be included and what should not.

Join us on Thursday December 13 at the Olympia Center to get your NUnit testing questions answered and find out Charlie’s thoughts on a new version of NUnit (v3.0) as well, and a variety of other interesting topics.

Charlie Poole is an independent developer, consultant and trainer and based in the Northwest. He is an experienced XP coach and an author of several open source development tools including the NUnit test framework for .NET.

Charlie is actively involved in a number of agile conferences and is one of the organizers of Agile Open Northwest, to be held in Seattle this spring. His technical background ranges from mainframes to modern systems. He is currently working on a mix of client projects using C# and C++.