Thanks everyone for attending last nights ctdotnet presentation. The group first started with a career fair, spearheaded by SB, and it seemed to be quite a hit. SB brought in a few recruiting firms, let them all speak to the group, and then all of the group members took an hour or so to network with the recruiters, and themselves. It seemed to be quite a hit, but I would also love to get some feedback from people in the group that may have liked, or disliked the career fair.

While others were off "careering", I was putting the finishing touches on the presentation. The career fair ended a little late, and then it was my turn. I was quite nervous. My nerves settled a little as I began talking, but I'm sure it was obvious in the beginning. The presentation seemed to go pretty well. I'm anxiously awaiting the results of the evals. We started by talking about build systems in general, and why a development shop may want to investigate one. We then moved on to source control, where we spent alot of time talking about Subversion, as there seemed to be quite an interest in svn. I saw lots of people nodding when I was talking about some of the issues VSS users face. SVN isn't a holy grail, but it can certainly help.

We then moved on to build scripts where I discussed the high level of nant, and then went through a few sample build files, adding various features as we went down the line. We then talked about continuous integration, and I showed off cruise control.net a bit. I was worried about filling up the entire hour at first, but when it was time to go I think we went a little over an hour, and I sped through a lot of things I would have liked to spend more time on. I'm debating doing a more polished version at code camp.

Thanks again to all the attendees, and please feel free to leave career night or presentation feedback here, or any questions you may have in regards to the materials. I will be releasing all the materials from the presentation this week, as well as a long list of links that I used to prepare. If your interested, SB has already posted some pictures here.