The workshop presenters were Scott Bellware and Jean-Paul Boodhoo. Both developers that I highly respect. There were also some amazing developers in attendance like Roy Osherove, Oren Enei, and Udi Dahan. I was hoping that the workshop didn't go over my head but I was happy to see that they introduced the concepts at an easy to follow pace. Jean-Paul said that people who understand TDD usually have an "ah ha!" moment. I think I had that moment during Scott's session on Domain Driven Design. Everytime...

The Ajax Revolution with Derek Hatchard I was hoping to hear about some more advanced talk about the trials and tribulations of using Ajax in this session but it turned out to be a basic demo of the simple AjaxToolkit controls and some Script.aculo.us effects. Nothing was new to me so there's not much to talk about. If you've seen the AjaxControlToolkit demo page and the Script.aculo.us demos then you've seen it all. Security Through Partial Trust with Don Kiely Security is always an issue with web...

Tips & Tricks to Boost Up Productivity with Claudio Lassala The first set of sessions of the day didn't really interest me greatly. I enjoyed Camillo's style of presenting yesterday so I figured I would check out the session on productivity. The first half covered many things that I already know and use. Using the quicklaunch bar, keyboard shortcuts, slickrun, sysinternal apps, folder organization were concepts/apps that I already follow/run. There were a couple nuggets that I had never known...

The Devteach conference has started, During breakfast I was seeing all the legends of the .Net world. It was pretty cool to be hanging out with the likes of Roy Osherove, Jeremy Miller, Jean-Paul Boodhoo, Scott Bellware, Oren Eini, Adam Machanic, Carl Franklin, Markus Egger, and Miguel Castro! Anyways, here's a synopsis of day number 1. Agile Development with Ray Osherove I was really excited to see the Agile development track in the conference. Roy came in the room wearing a shirt that said "Geek"...