On Wednesday I attended March Mingle at Dave & Busters in Mission Valley.

http://www.marchmingle.com

March Mingle is a large gathering of web developers in the San Diego area. I met some techies, and won a coffee mug in a giveaway. I met Bernard Wong, who presented at MSDN events the next day. I am now more interested in .NET development. I think I'll stick with PHP for my web stuff, however. PHP does what I want it to do, it does it well, it's free and widely available.

At MSDN Events in San Diego, I learned how easy it is to make a fully functional .NET application. It's a more visual way of creating an application than I'm used to. I won a copy of Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows. That will come in handy.

My first visual development environment was HyperCard, which used to come with a Macintosh. Sadly, Apple has abandoned HyperCard, which could have served the same purpose as Flash does today. It was ahead of its time, I suppose. I started making HyperCard 'stacks' when I was 13, and I made an expansive adventure game. I also took a HyperCard class at Bell Jr. High.