Its a new year and the changes keep coming!

Well along with making sure that I write the year as 2007 2008 correctly, the new year has brought forth many changes for me; some good, some great.

I am no longer working at CarMax (I do miss my many good friends there). I am working for the City of Richmond (VA) helping them implement Visual Studio Team System, helping them with ALM and CM, helping them move to a SOA, maybe some .Net Training with some standards and methodology thrown in.

I am no longer teaching at ECPI** but am going to be working for a company based out of NJ in a senior development role working with C# and SharePoint (gotta show some love for those telecommuting opportunities).

I bought a new Desktop and have switched everything over to Vista Business and am enjoying it very very much although I am definitely out of my comfort zone, let me tell you.

Finally purchased a new sever with Windows 2003 (yeah it can handle the upgrade to 2008, no problems there). Got it over the holidays, been working playing with WSS 3.0, SQL 2008 and TFS 2008 and Exchange 2007.

Installed Visual Studio 2008 Team System and I've got 2 words for ya...Wow and Wow.

Have joined INETA's technical team and will begin helping them complete development on thier new website.

Am contemplating setting up a Visual Studio Team System User Group here in the Richmond area (again Wow).

(My wife is reading this over my shoulder as I am typing this and is reminding me in a very nice irritated way that I left out the most important thing: I got a new gecko for Christmas, aptly named Reptar (Rugrats....heres lookin at you Andy , and my kids who named him are 17 and 11!). Yes I ask for an Iguana, I get the Geico lizard hmm....Reptar is a leopard gecko, but I have yet to hear any accent!

I am looking forward to being more involved with the .Net community this year.

Last but not least, I am happy that my wife Sherri is staying home to spend more time with Hellion Hunter and Wild Child Nikki and me!

Happy New Year to everyone.

-Kevin 

** Note - We will still be holding our .Net User Group meetings at ECPI Innsbrook along with our Code Camps....