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.
I’m excited to announce the CVBI is officially kicking off a web & mobile app showcase/competition for the Fresno area:
59daysofcode.com
It’s Fall 2009 and time to upgrade my home internet service. For all those in Fresno, Clovis and the central valley area with similar needs to mine, hopefully this helps.
In Fresno the only real options I know of are AT&T (DSL or “U-verse”) and Comcast (cable). For the last few years we’ve had AT&T’s DSL Elite (6 Mbps @ $35/month), and that’s been fine, but a few things have changed…
Yes, 6 Mbps downstream is a lot already, but these days we’re watching HD-quality video from Netflix, Hulu and other sources (usually streamed or live). The kicker is my wife is now uploading 10+ gigs of pics after a weekend photo shoot and our 768 Kbps upstream just isn’t cutting it.
My friend Robert Schultz recently gave his opinion on software programmer mentality in Fresno. I personally think it speaks to a larger issue going on with tech companies themselves in the Fresno/Clovis area.
I was born and raised in Fresno, and for at least 90% of the last 12 years I’ve been a full-time software developer for 6 different companies in the area. I hate to say it, but with most of them it was only about a year or two before I had to put in my resignation. They all had great people and great potential. But there was always some big setback that eventually caused me to leave.
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