My photographer quit after getting an offer from GQ Magazine after they saw her pervious photos of the Gadgeteer classes and that handsome dude she got pictures of, and I forgot to designate a new photographer so sorry no pictures tonight which is a real shame as not only was I rocking a Calgary Flames Jersey, but I also have my playoff beard started (OK its still salty stubble, but by the end of the playoffs, I could be joining ZZ-Top).
Now I was worried about tonight as it was the Calgary Flames first playoff game in 6 years being my competition on TV (the Flames defeated the Vancouver Canucks 2 - 1 in a barn burner), but pretty much a full class again. In fact these classes have been so much a draw that I demanded and received a 40% raise tonight so Iām now making zip + 40% for every class I teach and having a blast doing it.
Tonight was interesting as I had one of the Microsoft Store folks come in on her night off so she could sit in the class as apparently while the class is going on its quite the topic of conversation in the rest of the store for employees and customers alike and I had one student from last week come back as he had so much fun that he wanted to do it again. I suspected that Iād have folks do this, so I have the source code for all my demo projects on a USB drive so tonight he got to build the Gadgeteer Simon Game and I figure heāll be back again so I have a whole bunch of projects for him to try. We also had a senior dude from from a little company called Schneider Electric and like everyone else was blown away by how easy it was to build devices with Gadgeteer. So once again another successful Gadgeteer class. Iām going to take a break for a couple of weeks as I have a IoT Code Camp this weekend and a āCreating Mobile Solutions with Microsoft Azureā user group presentation to prepare and deliver, then maybe in May Iāll be trying to teach this course at the Edmonton Microsoft Store and then back in Calgary for the rest of May and June. So much fun, so little time, but now Iām off to place an ad for a new photographer.
