Jim Zimmerman

I was just awarded Microsoft's MVP award this week and am very grateful to many people for helping to make that happen.  This is a great honor and feels good that the work that i have done in the community for the last 12 months is acknoledged. I really have enjoyed speaking at Code Camps and look forward to doing much more next year.   I have learned so much this last year from others in the community.

It all started when I went to my first DotNet Users Group meeting here in Tampa and met Ambrose.  We started to chat about things and I asked him about how one would speak at a Code Camp.  Well Tampa code Camp 2005 was coming up in 3 weeks and he forwarded my info to Joe Healy who has since helped me to become a confident speaker at Code Camps since last year.  Joe has definitely influenced me a lot and has introduced me to people I would not have met otherwise.  I also want to thank Shawn Burke, who has helped me be part of a very smart software team on codeplex with the Atlas Control Toolkit.  They really have taught me what it's like to be part of project bigger than just your own.

I also want to thank Keith Kabza, who is president of the DotNet Users Group here in Tampa.  Working with him has taught me some very useful tips and tricks for C# development.  We helped build a Code Camp starter Kit that has yet to be put into beta, but it has worked for at least Tampa Code Camp last July.  If there was only more time in a day.

Now that I have control over my blog using DasBlog, I plan on blogging a lot more and adding some quick demos to this site, so keep in touch and subscribe to my feed.