Rob from the Public Sector Virtual Earth team just sent me an email pointing to a game called "Destroy All Invaders" where you fly around in a helicopter shooting down flying saucers that have invaded the earth.  The game was created by Andy Beaulieu.  He uses Virtual Earth as the backdrop for the game and Silverlight for the rest.  Pretty cool!  You can play the game at http://www.andybeaulieu.com/silverlight/DestroyAll/Default.html.  Andy made the source code available via his blog here.

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck here and code here.

Thanks to everyone who attended and stuck it out for the close to 2 hour presentation!  The deck is available here and the code is here.  If you liked what you saw in the brief LINQ to SQL demo, then you might want to attend my Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL webcast today at 2:00pm EST.  You can register here.

I'm a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute.  At VMI, first year students are called Rats.  Once you break out of the Rat Line, you are a cadet.  The VMI mascot is a Keydet. Keydet and cadet sound alike don't they? The funny thing is that the actual mascot is a Kangaroo with boxing gloves.  So where did the word Keydet come from? Using a proper southern accent, one pronounces "Cadet" as "Keydet." VMI folklore tells us that this is exactly how the word Keydet came about.  A while back, I decided to use an alias for blogging, etc. and Keydet popped in my head and stuck.

So what about Gold Coast?  Cadet life at VMI is very Spartan.  You spend your four years in barracks that are more like jail than modern Military barracks.  Different parts of barracks have nicknames.  The section of barracks I lived in during my time at VMI is called Gold Coast.  Therefore, Gold Coast seemed like an appropriate name for the place I lay my hat online.