I haven’t been able to make it out to the Fresno-area .NET user group in a while, but I’m glad I did for the one this last Wednesday (held at Fresno State).

The topic of the night was NHibernate (and several related technologies) given by Jeff Doolittle. Jeff’s the CTO of Lotpath (built on ASP.NET MVC), so he and his company are definitely eating their own dogfood with what he presented. The slides and code are available which will be great for review for anyone diving into it.

After the presentation and questions, quite a bit of networking went on. I talked to several developers I hadn’t before, including a recent FSU grad who’s been developing iPhone and Android apps for Watch Do It. Swag, books and full-on software licenses were raffled out at the end as well (I won a copy of ReSharper!). Even after we were kicked out, several of us hit Doghouse Grill for another hour or so.

Needless to say, if you’re a developer in Fresno, this is definitely a good group to attend and meet other local geeks at. The subject matter spans quite a bit, half the time not even .NET specific. Thanks to Gustavo Cavalcanti, who’s been organizing this user group for some time now. Send him an email if you want to get on the list. The next one is on May 13.

That being said, there’s also groups for Drupal, designers, and social media. I’m sure there’s more, so let us know.

In addition, check out the Fresno-area techies wiki. Request access, add yourself to the directory, and post any local events such as this one.

Next up: the 59 Days of Code kicks off on Friday, April 23 at 10pm. Hope to see some of you there!