INETA Chalk Talks and the MSDN Event - August 25, 2005
Yesterday we had the INETA Chalk Talks at the MSDN Event. The three speakers were great - Mark Dunn and Shawn Wildermuth sort of tag teamed with each other while talking to the group (37 people including the speakers!) about ADO.Net 2.0 and ASP.Net 2.0. We had some great information flowing out of our speakers, and our audience got involved - at one point actually coming up to the whiteboard and drawing out questions. Don Browning talked to us about some source control management processes and service orientation concepts. He got the most questions of any of our speakers while he explained how Turner developed multiple features of a single product in parallel without one team impacting another. His explainations of how Turner achieved service orientation by mapping "outside types" defined in contracts to "inside types" used by the valiation and business logic brought into clarity the difficulties of defining contracts and then putting that heirarchical data into a relational database.
The MSDN Event itself was a great set of presentations from Glen covering ASP.Net 2.0 Glen actually has a bunch of MSDN DVDs with the content if anyone missed out. I'm sure if you come to a user group we can get you a DVD. Because of the availability of these DVDs, I'm not going to rehash his content.
-- Matt Ranlett