Well we survived it and it was a blast! Thanks to everyone that showed up and I hope you learned a few things and had some fun along the way. 

The night started off with socializing over some yummy pizza (which I ate way too much of) and we fit in some foosball and pool while we were waiting for things to kick off.

I presented a iRules slide deck covering some iRule basics and then dug into some optimization techniques and ended up with some troubleshooting tips.  Hopefully everyone learned a little something during the talk.

We gave away some pretty nice DevCentral laptop backpacks to the ones who 1) answered correctly, or 2) guessed close enough (you know who you are!) the answers to some questions we threw out.  For those that didn't make it, here are the questions

1) What does TCL stand for?

2) How many *::payload commands exist in the iRules command set?

3) What are the two functions of OneConnect?

4) Explain with examples what iControl and iRules are and when and why would you use each technology?

Congrats to the winners!  Hope you enjoy your backpacks!

Jeff was rolling the camera so hopefully by next week we'll get a recording of the presentation online.  In the mean time, here is the slide deck from the meeting: 20080423-SEADUG-1.pptx

Call for Eastside Hosting

We are always willing to host but if there is anyone on the Eastside (Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland) that can offer hosting, we'd gladly move it to the eastside.  The location will have to accommodate 20-30 folks.

Call for Speakers

While I love talking in front of folks, this is a "User Group" so we'd love to have someone offer up a topic that they would be willing to present at the next and future meetings.  So, if you have a great project that you have been working on and would like to share with the community, let me know via the blog or Northwest User Group forum and we'll get you locked in.

Till next time!

-Joe