I've made a last minute decision to attend the Business of Software (BOS) conference in Boston, MA.  The conference runs from Sept. 3-4 at the Seaport Hotel.  I am very excited for this conference.  I attended the BOS conference last year in San Jose, CA.  I was able to meet some really great people, like Guy Kawasaki, Rick Chapman, Joel Spolsky, Neil Davidson, Eric Sink, Hugh MacLeod, and Matt Mason just to name a few.

This year, the line-up of speakers looks equally if not more appealing with notable additions like Seth Godin and Steve Krug.  I've also heard rumor that Jeff Atwood will be attendance, but that's not confirmed.

I strongly recommend checking out the BOS site for more details.  Neil Davidson did a fantastic job last year which leads me to expect great things again this year.

I've got a new gig as President and Founder of Smrtware Solutions, LLC.  Let me tell you a little bit about Smrtware and what we (I) do.

Smrtware is a joint venture between myslef and Campus Village Communites, located in Rochester, MI.  Campus Village is a realestate develoment company which services the student housing niche.  Campus Village has many locations across Michigan and Ohio located very near college campuses.  My role is provide Campus Village with property management software they need to run their portfolio of properties.  We call this software CampusLink.

I began working on CampusLink in June of 2007 while I was working for the Creative Logic Group, also located in Rochester, MI.  In the spring of 2008, I decided to leave Creative Logic, and join up with Campus Village directly with the primary goal of continuing development and support of CampusLink.

I've been at it for a month and half and I love it.  I've probably written more code in that time than I have in the past 6 months combined.  CampusLink used a custom framework developed by Creative Logic, which was based on Rocky Lhotka's Compact, Scalable, Logical Architecture (CSLA) 2.0 Framework.  Since starting Smrtware, I've completely upgraded the application framework to the latest CSLA 3.5 Framework and have completely rewritten the business logic and user interface of CampusLink.  To say that I've learned a thing or two along the way is an understatement.

Besides upgrading CampusLink, I've been busy working on creating the foundation for becoming a micro independant software vendor (Micro-ISV).  These are very exciting times.  The world is my oyster, as my wife would say.