Chillout Lounge

CNUG Community Launch was oversubscribed yesterday, We had around 300 confirmed participants but as the event was on Sunday and Chennai was drizzling in the early dawn so I thought the count might be around 200-250, but during the break while I was speaking to JD he said “we have around 400+ registrations”, WOW! That was a great count and the interesting fact was that the participants count composed of 70% Software Professionals and 30% Students. Which I think is a healthy composition compared to the last year.After the keynote, I started with my “C# 2.0 Unleashed” Session, My objective was not just to speak about the language enhancements but to cross cut at different technologies, and as the crowd is a mixture of Students, Professionals, Enthusiasts I did not wanted to get into the in-depth technologies. So, apart from Language Enhancements, I touched upon different technologies like DirectX, AI, Devices, GPS, C# Evolution et al… There was Awe’s & wow’s when I showed the Live GPS Demo using my GPS Receiver and ZBuffer’s 3D Engine… In the end it was very fulfilling session with many interesting questions…and many congratulations…

One observation I had was that, Many people know WHAT but didn’t know WHY and HOW !!! i.e. people know what generics is, but didn’t know WHY Generics and didn’t know HOW to use generics…not many people knew the performance gain offered by the Generics… Also, not many people know that we can do Games in C#, and have never heard of System.IO.Ports et al…

But, I Should say the crowd was quite alive & Responsive, and questions came out without hesitations… That was really good to see…

My session was followed by Ravi ’s SQL Notification and after lunch was Anand M’s VB.NET Secrets session… which got a good applause when he showed all the gimmicks the VB refactoring could do! And when he tried to pull the legs of C#, there was immediate response from the crowd favouring and fighting for C#…  that was an interesting conversation. Later Sankar Spoke about AJAX and Dhamayanthi finished up the event with her VSTS Sessions…

And we had Ask the Experts… and on the expert zone I had to answer some interesting questions like, “Should I Use Threadpool?”, “Why is that Microsoft has not released a software to kill Tally ?” , “Can C# do Robotics” ?  et al…

A Special kudos should go to Mahalaxmi and her team for organizing the whole event.

My Camera’s battery dried up and couldn’t take much of the photos, however you can find some photos at http://photos.logukrishnan.net/CNUGCommunityLaunch/

All in all it was very ful-filling day … Thanks everyone for participating in the event… You guys made my day… Thanks…

Link: For those of you interested, here is the link to the PPT I used in the Event http://www.logukrishnan.net/CNUGCommunityLaunch/CSharp2.0Unleashed.zip