JD is an entrepreneur and consultant focused on building consumer facing desktop and web software products. As a founder of two Sacramento area technology companies, Coversant and ittybittysoft, he has had the luxury of experimenting with bleeding edge technology coming out of Redmond. These experiences are documented in his blog: " Starin' at the Wall 2.0". He was recently a technical reviewer for a new book titled "C# in Depth". Prior to his entrepreneur days, JD developed critical line of business software for Malibu Boats, E & J Gallo Winery, and the Associated Press.

ASP.NET is often pigeon-holed as a platform suitable only for writing boring line of business applications and web sites. Explore how this is absolutely not the case with a walk through the development of a real-life ASP.NET AJAX based game. We'll focus on topics relevant to building internet scale Facebook applications such as threading, asynchronous architectures, data models, and Facebook API calls.