A few engagements planned. First off is the London .NET User Group on the 20th January where I'm talking about ASP.NET 2.0. Next up is Vienna on the 28th January, where Microsoft is having a .NET Day. Alex & I are doing three talks. First I'm covering Visual Studio .NET 2.0, then we are both covering ASP.NET 2.0, and then Alex is covering ADO.NET and XML 1.1 and 2.0. The speaker following us is Bill Gates, so it's going to be a fairly important day for us. The evening before is going to be at the Vienna .NET User Group where we are covering some of the .NET 2.0 bits that we aren't covering during the .NET day. That day is also Alex's birthday, so do drop in and say something rude about his age!

Next up is March 25th, where I'll be at Microsoft's Reading office hosting an all day ASP.NET masterclass for the DotNet Developer Group. The focus of this talk is ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1, with the aim of attendees being able to start building sites by the end of the day. We're looking to provide this masterclass (and the others in the series) in other locations around the UK, so keep your eyes posted on their site.