I've been putting off blogging about this because there is SOOO much to say! What an awesome event! (although it 6:00AM came pretty quick after all that fun on Friday night) I found myself back at the Milwaukee Hyatt at 6:50AM on Saturday morning wearing my new User Group shirt. These shirts were embroidered by the local sewing hermit,
Travis Feirtag. Seriously, Travis, a member of the UG Executive Commitee, did a great job on these shirts! But is it User Group or Users Group...hmmmm. ;) For starters Scott and Doug Rhoten gave some of our $80K worth of prizes away...always a good way to start a day! Coffee in hand I joined some friends and watched the first speaker of the day,
Michèle Leroux Bustamante, give a great presentation on WCF. Michèle did a great job keeping her composure even with the start of the day issue with the projector. Michèle was followed by
Scott, "the comic," Hanselman and his presentation on dasBlog and open source. Scott's presentation was very polished and funny! Scott's use of tools and his Colossal Cave/Transylvania joke was the high point of the presentation. I should also mention that he has me taking another look at dasBlog. The lunch Q&A session was held while attendees feasted on the free pizza. I have to admit I missed most of it due to conversations with sponsors and attendees.
Julie Lerman's discussion of ADO.NET and SQL Server 2005 followed lunch. Having met Julie the night before, I found her presentation very well done! Bill Hatfield was next with a great presentation on AJAX and Atlas followed by Jason Beres and his "world changing" ;) WPF presentation.
For me the day ended with a beer with
Val and
Avonelle followed by dinner with the UG Executive Committee. A fantastic day filled with so many wonderful things!