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Deeper in .Net wrap up

Wow, yesterday was great. Myself and Jordan Martz make the trek up from Chicago land up to Brookfield WI to attend a great .Net developers conference. The conference had a great turnout of about 400 people that listened to 5 great presentation

LINQ Internals with Visual Basic 9
The Science of a great UI (Mark is a awesome presenter)
The Scaling habits of ASP.Net applications (Richard Campbell did a great job)
Building next generate apps with Silverlight
The Essence of Linq with C# (Charlie did a great job of detailing the internals of linq)

After the conference was over, they had a dinner reception for some of the attendees. The food was great, but the geek talks were even better. I had a chance to chat with Richard Campbell for about an hour. Had dinner with Charlie Calvert (community PM for the C# team), and was able to pepper him with a few questions.

I would like to give a special shout out to the WI-Intea guys, they did a great job putting this together. Scott, Doug and gang you guys did a nice job.

Published Apr 06 2008, 10:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Conference

Comments

Peter Ritchie said:

Do you know how many attended?

# April 7, 2008 5:16 PM

Derik Whittaker said:

@Peter

Was told by Scott (the organizer) that over 400 signed up. Would say 300-400 showed up.

# April 7, 2008 5:54 PM

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About Derik Whittaker

Derik is a .Net Developer/Architect specializing in WinForms working out the northern suburbs of Chicago. He is also believer and advocate for Agile development including SCRUM, TDD, CI, etc.

When Derik is not writing code he can be found spending time with his wife and young son, climbing on his bouldering wall, watching sports (mostly baseball), and generally vegging out.