Last week GotDotNet celebrated their fifth birthday and yes we all know they have gone through some growing pains, but they are and have been a remarkable resource for the developer community.
They had a Gotdotnet 5th Birthday Celebration party last week in Redmond, we should have done something at the Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Launch in New York to mark the occasion. A lovely young woman from CodeZone flew to New York for the launch, Keith Pijanowski and Don XML were there and they have been active members of GotDotNet for all five years. Microsoft did have a nice little party after the Launch to thank the MVP's for giving up a full days worth of billable hours helping out in the Experts Area, but a more inclusive GotDotNet bash with the developer community would have been fun.
For GotDotNet's fifth birthday they have upgraded to several new 64bit Servers, SQL Server 2005 and moved from Whidbey to Visual Studio 2005. So it hasen't been an easy transition, but they had to migrate message boards, workspaces, user samples, tools, feeds, a resource center and a codegallery.......while a world wide community loged-on.
If you haven't been over to GotDotNet in a while now is a good time to log-on, have a look around and maybe start something amazing!
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