TechEd - Wrapping Up

OK, I'm out of Orlando.

I hated the weather, but loved the show.

I think there were more developers than last year, probably because VS2005 is around the corner.

Yesterday I attended Scott's presentation on code generation, which was repeated at a time when the Exhibit Hall was closed, so I could attend. They did pretty cool stuff with code-generation.  After seeing presentation I adopted SlickRun. It rocks.

After that I went to the 'Influencer Party' and spent a while talking to Gregor Hohpe, without knowing that he was him ;), and I got his cool Thoughtworks card that I'll attach to the book ;).

On the morning, I found Don Box in a surprise presentation (podcast here, people laughs because he previously defined 'model' as 'a representation of an ideal'), and as usual it was quite fun. He talked about models, model driven development, the OMG metametamodels, etc.. Now each time I say 'metadata' I remember him and try to change the word by 'information'.

Today was also a fun day, I made DeKlarit demos to Harry Pierson, Scott Hanselmann, John Lam and Daniel Cazzullino, and I got a cool PluralSight t-shirt. Not bad ;)