Yesterday was the 2nd Annual Code for the DotNet Users group of Westchester/Fairfield County.
It was a rainy day in Connecticut and the last of the leaves were letting go.
The event was at a great venue again, the Stamford campus for UCONN.
I was only able to attend 3 sessions, as I am busy getting ready for a 2 week trip starting with OpenForce at Devconnections this coming week.
How could I miss a session by Don Demsak. Don did a new talk on Business Intelligence for the .Net Guy. I was scared by the raw ado.net code and inline SQL required to get data from the MDX queries. I am not sure that I ready to jump into this area, but Don makes a good point that BI is an area in demand.
The second session I made was by a local develoepr Jason Sliss. Jason did a talk called, TDD LIVE. It was great!!! He did a quick intro to TDD and then walked the session through solving a real world business problem. It was stock price validation, a topic near and dear to me after working for Reuters for 18 Years! Jason showed TDD, refactoring towards patterns and had a very pragmatic approach to TDD - he certainly opened the door for more developers to do TDD
I ended the day with a pizza session and follow up session with Richard Hale Shaw. He is a great passionate speaker and did a Q&A for people on C# language features and then did the session on LINQ and LINQ to SQL. He really showed the value of LINQ and his extension methods were pretty cool also.
Thanks to Leo, Mark, and Louis from UCONN for a great event, I can't wait for next years, Watch out Philly - Here we Come!!!