Patterns and Practices to Finish my TechEd Trip

I attended two sessions from the Patterns and Practices group this morning.  I was very impressed, not just with what they've done, but also with their honesty and openness.  They already documented a fair number of patterns and released several application blocks, like the Data Access Application Block, and more will be coming soon.  I'll have to reevaluate their work, and the community additions they've encouraged, since I wasn't real impressed the last time I checked.

By the way, CommNet is managed by WinGear.net -- I would suggest no one ever use this company for anything if you expect responsiveness and reliability.  I'm off to the airport and home now, where I'm going to go see Finding Nemo with my wife and kids this weekend.

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  • I agree completely about WinGear.NET. When I asked them about the poor performance, they claimed they requested "a bigger pipe" than the Dallas Convention Center could provide. Wrong answer, idiots. I was here in 2000 for MEC and in 1999 for TechEd, and CommNet was great at both. Although MEC was a smaller conference, TechEd 1999 was very comparable in size to TechEd 2003. There were fewer CommNet stations in 1999, but that doesn't explain why CommNet 2003 was slow all the time, even at 9PM on Sunday and 7AM/7PM on weekdays, when relatively few users were on it. Once, I printed a single page from the middle of a table which had a printer at each end. Not knowing which end it went to, I walked around the table repeatedly until the page came out. I am 5'6" tall, so my short legs don't walk very fast, but I managed to log off and walk 5 full laps around the table before my page was printed, and there were no other pages coming off either printer at the time.

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