MVP Summit Monday and Tuesday
Yesterday was registration today. I got to spend some time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looked at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend. Patrick has built a new powerful query language and some great visualizations into the tool that absolutely convinced me I need to use this for myself and my team. Here is a picture of Scott Hanselman, K Scott Allan, Tomas and myself around this time. The Code Better team,of which there are like 9 of us here has been doing a lot of hanging out as well. Last night, we had a regional dinner for the Americas. All I can say is that both Beth Massi and Nick Landry were out of control during Kerioke! -). After that, I joined Rod Paddock, Jim Duffy, Claudio, Scott Swigart and about 20 others in seeing 300, which rocked!
Today, we had a Bill Gates keynote. I am under NDA for the whole week so I can't say anything really other than experiences. I thought the Bill keynote was not one of his best. We had good sessions today culminating with a great one from Don Box and Chris Anderson, where they sort of revealed what they are working on but again can't say anything. We also had God Anders Heilsberg present an awesome presention on LINQ. Great discussions all day with CB's Jeremy Miller on Agile Architecture and many other agile design issues. If I were to get anyone on the planet to work with us, Jeremy would certainly be at the top or near the top of that list.............