About the author

J Sawyer is a developer based in Houston, TX who absolutely loves to write code. After spending 9 years at Microsoft, he moved on to other things and is currently the Lead Developer for the RealTime Data Management team at Logica US. He spends his days building Really Cool Things around StreamInsight and having a blast doing it.

He has been involved with HDNUG, one of the oldest and largest .NET-focused user groups in the US, since its inception in 2001 and has watched it grow from 5-10 technologists meeting around a conference table to a thriving community of over 5000 with regular meeting attendance averaging 100 attendees. He currently serves as the Vice President. You can join him at HDNUG on the second Thursday of every month at the Houston Microsoft office.

He also loves to ride his Yamaha FZ1. And sometimes his Ninja 650. And also his Honday XR-400 dirt bike. But he doesn't code and ride at the same time. That would be bad.

Howdy Y'all!

September 19, 2007 2:35 AM
OK, so here it is.  A new blog.  Moving out of the over-cluttered blogs.msdn.com to my own little domain name.  Yeah, it's a little bit of an ego trip, but so what?  That's part of the beauty of the openness of the Internet.  Everyone can have their own little piece of cyberspace for a nominal fee.  So this is my piece -- well, one of my pieces.  Ive gone on something of a domain-buying spree here of late and purchased several domains.  Don't know what I'm gonna do with them yet though ... I guess just feed my ego. 
Anyhoo, I'm gonna write on here a bit now and again.  Mainly, I'll be focusing on the Open Source community that is growing around .NET ... yes, it's true, there is an Open Source community around .NET.  And it's growing by the day.
It's kinda funny, actually, in the course of my job as a Developer Evangelist, I often bring up Open Source .NET projects to customers, even show them to them ... if, for nothing else, so that they can get an idea of what kinds of things can be done and what's our there that they can readily use.  Call it the ultimate demo code.  Not just a demo ... but something actually useful.  And some of these ... the larger projects ... have become platforms in their own right (a la DotNetNuke, for example) or build useful extensions on existing platforms (like what I'm using for this blog ... the Enhanced Blog Edition of the Community Kit for SharePoint).
Speaking of the EBE, I'll be digging around in it in the next few weeks or so, looking to customize my little corner of the webspace and see what it can do for me. 
So ... that's a part of what this blog will be about ... technology, .NET and being a Code Monkey.  Another part is likely to be idle babbling, which I may prefer to call Philosophikal Thoughts ... but most will call idle babbling.  Part of my heritage as an English Lit major/Philosophy minor. 
With that, thank you and good night for now.  I'll be back. 

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