Each month I try to post a personal review of what happened at vbCity during the previous month and this month is no exception :)
Helper Of The Month (HOTM)
Congratulations to Larry Blake Larry Blake for winning the February 2005 HOTM in another close contest, that ended up even closer than last month. At the beginning of the month at least 6 posters had a good chance of winning the award. And even on the last day of the month 3 posters could still conceivably have won. Larry hung on with just 9 posts separating the first 3, and Larry didn't even post in the last day! Nice one Larry :)
.NET Fella
Congratulations to Andy Bonner aka Skullcrusher for winning the February 2005 .NET Fella Award. Andy also has a number of excellent posts in the vbCity Humor Forum that are worth checking out :)
Newsletters
Two devCity Newsletters were sent out in February, on February 15th and February 25th. We are always on the lookout for contributers to the newsletter so if you are interested please contact XTab aka Ged Mead
vbCity sends out a community newsletter email once a month, usually around the last week. All registered vbCity members can choose to receive it by going to their profile, selecting preferences and then ticking the Yes, send me monthly Community Update mailing checkbox. You might notice some items from this post appear in the newsletter!
Leader News
One piece of vbCity leader news that has not have gone unnoticed by many of the regulars at vbCity is that IDontKnow (Brent Culpepper) is no longer a leader at vbCity. I won't go into the ins and outs of why this is other than to say there were some strong differences of opinion between the various leaders and the result is that Brent is now an ordinary vbCity member. Hopefully everyone involved will put this episode behind them and move on :)
Last month's HOTM winner, Priore, has an interesting web site, Nino Priore .com which is worth checking out.
Each month our resident genealogist, Wonkotsane digs up some fascinating and little known facts about our new leaders and this month it was the turn of Nino Priore, Duke of Panama!
It has been great to see Deke (Don Hanfland) posting on a regular basis again. Don is our resident Data Report expert and his help in solving these problems is always very much appreciated. Many of you may not know that Don is a closet Delphi fan!
Carrying on from last month's post about CanOz's photography talents Neil has now setup his own web site, Neil's Photography Site, which is well worth checking out for some great pictures in and around Perth.
Other News
The most popular post in the vbcity Lounge Forum was Petals Around The Rose which seemed to be a big hit. I never got around to checking out the test it was all about but I know a lot of the other leaders did.
The vbCity Introduce Yourself forum continued to be popular and has provided an excellent insight into some of the vbCity member's other interests. I found Rock - Arnaldo's entry particularly interesting as a fellow ex-pat and hope Julian his cat is OK :)
At the end of January we had a total around 379,000 posts and 137,200 registered users at vbCity.