The March Lakeland .NET User Group is off to a great start! I've decided to live-blog our meetings so we retain a history. Please add comments to this blog entry if you would like to continue the discussion offline.

Why Care About Parallelism
aka The Inevitable Shift
Download the Slides

Abstract
Examine the drivers behind the current drive toward parallelism and multi-threaded programming -- from hardware considerations to user-experience demands. Find out why parallelism is a growing trend in application development and how upcoming changes in .Net and Visual Studio will make implementing these features easier than ever.

Bio
Paul Jackson has been a professional software developer for almost twenty years, starting with Visual Basic 1.0 and then defecting to PowerBuilder and Java before returning to the Microsoft fold and .Net. His current focus is building line-of-business, composite client applications.

Here are some more pictures of the meeting and the slides to the presentation is also attached.

Paul Jackson - Introduction

Good attendance. Spring break is in full effect, so no USF students this time.

Charlie Pell enjoying sanity days before the new family member is to arrive. Remember what sleep feels like Charlie!

Someone combined their cooking and computing hobbies.