Excersize and User's group

[jcfiala]

Monday was a good day for myself.

For one, I finally have gotten over that crud that's been tiring me out all of last week, and it was a beautiful day to be over it - highs in the 70's and blue skies all around. For another, Tammy and I had an appointment at 24 hour fitness.

24 Hour Fitness, for those of you not having one nearby, is a chain of 24 hour exercise facilities. Tammy and I have been without a club since we quit from Colorado Athletic Club, but recently we've had a little extra cash thanks to the refinancing. I'd entered a little 'drawing' by them, and won 2 weeks free membership and 2 sessions with a personal trainer. When the two of us had shown up to talk about it, they quickly gave Tammy the same prize. I suspect *lots* of people win 2 weeks. :)

But that said, it's a nice place. Lots more machines than the CAC had, a swimming pool, and a parking lot. (We'd been at the downtown CAC, which relied on street parking and the like.) The session we had yesterday was simple - a quick overview of what we knew about excersize, a quick figuring of our target heart rates, and then a few demos of three machines. It was very light, so after wards I just went on and re-did what I'd been doing at CAC - very nice, and I'd forgotten how good I feel after wards.

That evening, I went to another meeting of the Denver Visual Studio .NET User's Group. It was fun - some free sandwiches, followed by meaty discussions. First off they revealed who had won free memberships to the DevDays 2004, followed up by giving a shirt to one person who had attended. After that they discussed a contest - teams of up to five are going to design and build a registration system for club events, the winner to be actually *used*. The winner also wins an XBox, or a few other interesting prizes. Several jokes about having people's wives and children joining their teams ensued.

After that we had a quick review of some software by red-gate software, our sponsor. They've got some pretty slick products - they have tools that will compare two databases, update their schema so they match, update their data so they match, or update other DBA data so they match. It looked really powerful and easy to use, too.

The end of the session was a long talk by Kathleen Dollard on reflection, showing a few different ways to use it beyond the old 'object browser'. One particularly flashy use was a program that used inference to take a dll and dynamically create a data entry interface to it using inference. I'm hoping she'll have the source code and the powerpoint stack on her website (www.gendotnet.com) soon.