I have to confess I'm still not entirely sure what I will be writing about in my Blog. I suspect it will end up being a mish mash of personal, vb/dev City, and VB related meanderings that will not be taxing Serge's bandwidth too much ;-) I guess the majority of the handful of people reading this will know who Serge is but for those of you that don't check out http://blogs.vbcity.com/sergeb/
Needless to say I am very thankful to Serge for providing this blogging facility on vb/dev City, although I suspect he may live to regret it ;-)
One area I will try and write about in my blog is what I do at vb/dev City and what it is all about. vb/dev City can be found at http://www.vbcity.com & http://www.devcity.net Both sites are run by the aforementioned Serge and offer a community for VB & .NET programmers respectively. Some areas of the community overlap (e.g. the VB.NET forum).
You'll possibly have noticed I said community and not forum. At vb/dev City we like to think (rightly or wrongly) we offer something a little bit different than most (if not all) the other forum sites. We think of ourselves as a community of friends who help one another out with programming problems (or actually any problems come to think about it). Yes there are the usual programming forums but there are lounge and humour forums too as well as an article section, FAQs, resource links, a weeklish newsletter and monthly prizes for the poster with the most points at the end of the month (HOTM) and the .NET poster who gets the most votes from the vbCity Leaders.
I (and all the other leaders as far as I know) became leaders by winning the HOTM competition. Not all leaders stay on as leaders, you can return to the ranks after a few months. I am also the moderator for the vbCity VB & Databases & devCity ADO.NET & XML forums, something a leader can volunteer for. In future blogs I'll try and explain what I do as a vb/dev City leader and how I cope with the associated fame, the drugs, the chicks and the geese ;-)