Colin Neller and the Memphis .Net User Group board members did a stellar job planning the “Memphis Day of .Net” that occurred Nov. 10. As if having Charles Petzold give the key-note wasn’t enough, I know that I gained more from this local event, in a practical development sense, than my week at VSLive! Las Vegas.
Both conferences were a positive experience and provided different benefits.
VSLive! provided a forum for meeting well known names in the Microsoft development community along with technology previews from Microsoft.
The “Memphis Day of .Net” hosted a spectrum of speakers that ranged from locally known names to an internationally known icon, and provided a forum for conversing with developers and architects that actual implement the presented technologies and methodologies in their existing applications.
This opportunity to converse with developers and architects that have implemented the “newer” technologies and methodologies in their existing applications reaches out to a broader range of developers than a marketing-based demo or a hypothetical application built from scratch that leverages the latest and greatest technologies. Each of the aforementioned types of presentations (marketing, ground-up demo apps, and existing app integration) are vital to properly educating the development community about a technology or methodology, and the “Memphis Day of .Net” did its part in rounding out the educational experience.
If nothing else, I really enjoyed the conversations Colin and I had with Mr. Petzold, and our dinner at The Flying Fish with Tim Rayburn and his wife Kate.
My camera decided that it was done with this world, but thanks to Brian Sullivan I was able to get a picture with Charles Petzold. Brain, U Da Man!
Both conferences were a positive experience and provided different benefits.
VSLive! provided a forum for meeting well known names in the Microsoft development community along with technology previews from Microsoft.
The “Memphis Day of .Net” hosted a spectrum of speakers that ranged from locally known names to an internationally known icon, and provided a forum for conversing with developers and architects that actual implement the presented technologies and methodologies in their existing applications.
This opportunity to converse with developers and architects that have implemented the “newer” technologies and methodologies in their existing applications reaches out to a broader range of developers than a marketing-based demo or a hypothetical application built from scratch that leverages the latest and greatest technologies. Each of the aforementioned types of presentations (marketing, ground-up demo apps, and existing app integration) are vital to properly educating the development community about a technology or methodology, and the “Memphis Day of .Net” did its part in rounding out the educational experience.
If nothing else, I really enjoyed the conversations Colin and I had with Mr. Petzold, and our dinner at The Flying Fish with Tim Rayburn and his wife Kate.
My camera decided that it was done with this world, but thanks to Brian Sullivan I was able to get a picture with Charles Petzold. Brain, U Da Man!
