Don’t worry – Claudio is still very much among the living, but in the spirit of April Fools we called this year’s event the Claudio Lassala Memorial. Fortunately, Claudio didn’t meet with any accidents prior to the event that would have rendered this a very tasteless joke indeed.
Claudio’s topic was “Be a Professional Developer and Write Clean Code!” The event was a great success, with around 60 people in attendance including contingents from the Northwest Arkansas, Springfield, MO, and Ozarks .NET user groups. Tim Franklin won the iPad grand prize and every single person who came received a free CodeSmith license. We also gave away Telerik, Infragistics, CodeRush, ReSharper and Xceed licenses.
I’m already looking forward to the third annual Claudio event in 2011. I feel like this event is becoming something of an annual user group jamboree. With some advance preparation, maybe we can get some folks from Fort Smith and Little Rock next year.
Brandon King is the owner of Peleta Software and also founded the Ozarks .NET User Group in Harrison, Arkansas.
