Well it's announcement time. We are in the process of partnering with Microsoftbookstore.com to form the Developer Book Club, formerly known as .NET Book Club. With this name change comes a reformation of the club itself. An online forum community for books is a utopia, but only brings advantages to participants, and they were few and far between. Instead, we are focusing on the message. We want to have the authors interact with the community about the book. We will have a monthly webcast for the featured book of the month with the author. MSDN Webcast is generously hosting these for us, and I hope you will join us. The webcast will be made up of three sections. The first, John Alexander and I will interview the author about topics that will help you understand the author further beyond the words written. We will discuss the relative topics of the book and try to keep the banter down to a minimum. After this, the author will hold a 30-45 minute session on the topics of the book and so you some demos pulled out of the book. Then finally, you will be able to interact with the author for a Q&A session. These webcast will be on-demand available so if you can't attend live, you can still download them later. Are you as excited about this as I am? I hope so.
The first webcast is next week with Bill Evjen, discussing his book: ASP.NET 2.0 The Beta Preview. The date is Tuesday the 14th and we will start at 8:00 AM PST. I know it is a little early for you west coast folks, but just in time for lunch on the east coast. Let me know what you think of the concept and I hope to see you there!