Today I learned that a good friend of mine, Tom Murdock, has passed away. We have long been involved with Microsoft development technologies, going back to VB6. We were involved in a VB group in the Albuquerque, NM area, in the late 90’s. That group eventually died, but along came .NET, C#, ASP.NET, etc. and we (along with a few other people) started the New Mexico .NET User Group (NMUG), still going today.
Tom was one of the biggest drivers of NMUG and supporters of NMUG. It is no exaggeration to say that NMUG exists today, in large part, due to Tom. His friendship was very important to me. He will be very sorely missed.
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