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Hey, Ramya: Do you think you could post that recording of Jim's talk you made the other night? There's a link to attach a file in the Discussion editor. If you post a Discussion, look at the bottom of the editor and you can attach up to 3 files. That would be nice because people are asking for it if we have one.
Hi Ramya and welcome to Codetown! Now, you can join some groups like the OrlandoJUG group! Hope to see you post content on your blog here soon.
All the best, Mike