Altanta DevDays and Franklin's .NET Rocks

I attended the Atlanta DevDays today and caught up with Jerry and Matthew.  While I agree with Jerry that I don't personally get anything much out of these things, other than socializing, I think that's mostly due to the level that we have reached and not just a matter of the content.  I actually thought the ASP.NET security track was quite in-depth, although I agreed with Jerry that there wasn't anything new that folks like us shouldn't already know.  But there's far too many developers out there that don't have a clue they may need to configure anything in IIS, or that IIS6 in W2K3 works differently, that even the intro hour wasn't “bad” -- it was just boring to us.  And I don't think most developers have ever actually had the opportunity to see real hacks being done, which were shown in the second hour, so I think it was probably an eye-opener to most people.  So yes, I didn't get much out of it, but I thought it was an excellent day, and I look forward to the MVP Global Summit in a few weeks for my own real education.  By the way, I do think that big conferences like TechEd and DevConnections need more advanced sessions, and I've heard those complaints often in the past from attendees over lunch, although apparently the people running those shows don't believe it to be the case.

On another note, I finally got around to listening to Carl and Rory's .NET Rocks show that mentioned me and my O/R Mapper.  The guest was Kevin McNeish of OakLeafSD, who's adding persistence to his Mere Mortals Framework, possibly by including my mapper, at least until ObjectSpaces arrives in 2005!