Developer Evangelists Unite!
Last Thursday, August 23 2007, I had the pleasure to get paid time off from my employer to attend a local Orlando MSDN Developer Evangelist event hosted by Russ Fustino , our Florida MS Developer Evangelist, in Orlando. I was both pleased and excited to see a real turnout of new faces I've never seen before, as well as good friends and several other MVPs who made the trip, either as attendees or presenters. Russ Fustino surprised me. Although Russ and his MS cohort Joe Healy and I have become friends because of our almost constant interaction at various developer events (Code Camps, MVP Summits, PDCs, Tech-Eds and even local developer user groups like our OneTug Orlando .NET User Group) I had never seen Russ do a full presentation. Bottom line, Russ is an expert presenter. This guy did four hours of "stuff" -- all by himself -- and I gave him an 8 out of 10. I've done some presentations at public user group meetings, and I intend to do more in the coming months. I ...