PDC05: "Ask the Experts", Architectural Symposium, and final day

Last night, David and I stumbled into the "Ask the Experts" and enjoyed talking with Anders Heijlsberg and discussing Linq on the whiteboard.  There were noticeable "pods" of developers surrounding the marquis MS "Rockstars" like Don Box and Anders.  In addition, there was plenty of lively discussions around the Language teams with Brad Abrams, Eric Meijer, as well as many other product teams.  Overall it was a fun night...

Today we started off at the Architecture Symposium looking at the architecture and application modeling tools for improving cross-team communication.  Now, I'm about to head off to the Advances in Agile Software Development down the hall.

Well, we are nearing the end of PDC05 and it has been a blast - I have most of the new bits installed now, and look forward to poking-around at the new changes over the coming months.  The future is definitely fully of exciting new avenues to explore and embrace.