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Speaking and being at the Heartland Developer's Conference was an absolute blast! As Rocky said, Joe Olsen, Kent, and the other organizers should be proud and for a V1.0 product have outdone themselves. They sold out at 150 people in less than 3 weeks. I want to first thank Joe Olsen and Omaha.NET for sponsoring me through INETA. These folks were super and any INETA speaker should be nothing but proud to go out and speak for these folks and the other fine Midwest user groups.
I already alluded to the super 2 and 1/2 hour conversation I had with fellow INETA Speaker Rocky Lhotka that was a peak experience for me and apparently scared some folks-) Rocky is so smart and I just had one of those “high bandwidth” conversations that us geeks strive for. Both having the common VMS background and the 20 years in distributed computing certainly led to areas that just were mutually stimulating. Rocky already has recorded observations on whether SOA is Procedural Programming Redux or Emergent Technology and his skepticism. He is not sure. He raises great points and I see a lot of a return to “procedural programming” constructs but I believe I disagree on its impact to architectural design. I believe that approaching architecture with a Service Orientation does allow Architects greater freedoms in pursuing designs with greater amounts of loose coupling with a single focus on designing the messages and that's a Good Thing(TM).
I spent a lot of time with Kent who I love hanging out and has a similar great sense of humor. I also spent a lot of quality time with Robert, Adam, Rocky, Matt, Jeff. Matt relates the story of our Friday night. Maybe my other blog could fill in the details of how I got the girls at the front desk to drive us to Starbucks in the hotel shuttle van but we'll leave it out of this discussion.
Back to the conference. V2.0 is going to need bigger session rooms as it was quite cramped. I attended Phil Wolfe's ASP.NET Portal 2.0 session which was excellent. Phil is a good speaker and the session was informative. The only other session I got to attend was my buddy Robert's excellent session on SQL Server Service Broker which rocked.
On to my session. I got all 5's on my Generics presentation and only 4's on the length. I had to chop 20 or more slides to get it under 60 minutes and everyone in the audience wanted much more. They need in V2.0 of the conference to increase to 1 and 1/2 hour sessions. It was a tough slot at 2:25 in the afternoon as people were tired and there was no caffeine (-. My strong suggestion to the organizers for 2.0 is that they employ the Coffee Cart. People streamed to the 2nd floor machine afterword to load up on Cokes. Anyhow, I'm debating on how to handle the release of the slides. My standard approach is to just release the slides and code to everyone on my web portal but I'm thinking otherwise. Almost every other INETA speaker or big name speaker I know employs either a password system for attendees only or something like it. I want to start protecting my IP as I spent a lot of time rewriting these. Also, there are two versions - one with 60 slides and one with 40-). I will think about it.
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