something was itching at the back of my mind (no, i just got a haircut), something i was supposed to do in april... oh, that's right; i had signed up for a local .net "conference". gotta try and remember - april 19.
i don't know when they posted their session / speaker list, but browsing through, here's what looks interesting:
- A LINQ to Everything
mainly because of a list of interesting sub-topics, and also because i have some serious reservations about how people are viewing this set of technologies and how they should be used in a real-world development scenario. i need to know more before i can come to any reasonable conclusions.
- An Introduction to Boo and DSL
domain specific languages. now we're talkin'.
- F# It!
anything new & different in languages is cool. well, f# has actually been around for years (i posted something somewhere on this in 2003), and functional languages have been around for decades. compatible with my mathematica background, i'm hoping these become more widely acceptable.
- The C# Variety Show
because of this quote: "I guarantee you'll see more references to Beer than you ever had in any other technology talk."
there are some other items of miscellaneous interest, but i'm not sure how they're organizing this, so i'll see what i can line up.
update:
crap, those first two i mentioned are offered in the same period. and they appear to have six segments for the day. guess that miscellaneous stuff will kick in then. there's only a few items that i'm really not interested in, so no problem.
odd, that i got a reminder email (actually, three duplicate messages) a few hours after i first posted this. mentions the newly posted sessions list, and has a link to a survey about what sessions are of interest. coincidence / synchronicity ? almost certainly. but i've noticed that they seem to watch their analytics almost as closely as i watch mine (i watched them watching me once or twice), so who knows, maybe they visit their referrers like i do sometimes. gotta love iis logs, feedburner & ga stats etc ;-)