James has posted up his summary of the third day at TechEd last week. He provides a pretty good analysis of the sessions that he attended. One thing that didn’t seem to impress was the “grok” session that was run as the last session.
I participated in this session and did a quick and dirty over view of some of the new improvements in the System.Diagnostics namespace and Paul Glavich did a kick-arse demo of how to host ASP.NET in your own process using the new HttpListener class.
While James liked the idea some of the execution lacked:
- Some folks didn’t present on .NET 2.0; rather than focusing on 2.0 features Adam Cogan presented on some of his favorite tools. I didn’t mind the content myself but I can understand that it didn’t necessarily match what the overall session was billed as.
- Whats with the presenter getting a gift? When everyone SMS’d their votes in the presenter that got the most votes got a bottle of wine. All I can say is that Paul’s presentation rocked and he was very deserving.
I think if we do a session like this year Dave should modify his program so that once the voting has closed it randomly selects one of the voters and calls them back. The person who has the ringing phone also wins a prize!
As an interesting aside the fact that Adam came a very close second to Paul means that his session was pretty well received even though James didn’t like it. Either way – James’ feedback is really valuable since this was a prototype session!