Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

Christopher Gant is fielding questions on SCCM with Subversion. He's got a tablet PC and is marking up his slides with ink as he explains branching, merging and versioning. How elegant. No worries about having a whiteboard available, having pens/eraser, etc...

Most presentation facilities have some sort of video projection equipment. Not all have a whiteboard. Sure, you can do the same thing with a mouse, but using the stylus on a tablet is so much more intuitive.

Ben Carey is talking about TDD and is using Southpark characters in some of his slides! It got my attention!

As I finish lunch (sitting with Keith Elder and Jason Follas), I'm listening to Bruce Eckle talk about why we should get together in this type of format (i.e. Codemash) when much of this information is already available on the web.

Great pictures from Bruce's recent trip to Burning Man. He's talking about early assumptions when designing software -- and how they're usually wrong!

Microsoft AE Josh Holmes has agreed to shave his head onstage at the end of Codemash if we get 500 blog posts about Codemash (as counted by Techboratii).

Get blogging! :)

Keith Elder had to wait for a video cable before starting his presentation, but the wait was worth it! His slide deck and demos on Smart Clients was awesome. I think I'll be attending his second session where he's going to get more in-depth on the technology.

By the way, I left the laptop in my room. All of my Codemash blogging is being done from my Samsung i730 and my PPC blogging app.

Great keynote by Neal Ford. He talked about Domain Specific Languages and how we as developers can use these to increase our communication with business analysts.

Off to a Smart Client session.

This is the first post from my new PocketPC blogging app -- last night was from the emulator.

I've got a few options for URL inserting (Weblogs.asp.net) and setting styles.