WOW, what a great week; this was a top-notch experience all-around!
Kudos to Pluralsight for putting on a great class. Covering this many topics in a week is a tall order but they pulled it off admirably!
The class was held at the Redmond Marriott Town Center where we received first class treatment and accommodations. I hope Pluralsight is able to keep using this location for future events. (As a bad pun, their employees were very 'service oriented') :)
Clearly, Pluralsight has some of the best instructors in the industry (which is why I wanted to come here in the first place; if you're going to spend time and money on training, it had better be good training!).
Today, we're down to the eye-candy topics: WPF, Fritz did an AJAX demo with Atlas.
From a personal standpoint, I got to see my friend Brian (a Microsoftie) a couple times. Eric Deily from the IIS7 team came out to talk about features of IIS 7.0 which was very intresting. The IIS7 team has spent a great deal of effort in allowing you to swap in/out modules via config at a server->application level. This helps an admin pare down the server features to reduce attack surface, which is a good thing. If you want to write your own modules, you can swap out the built-in ones with your own (e.g. if you think you can build a better static content handler, go-for-it)!
Please feel free to email me (jeffk at Magenic dot com) if any of the blog posts about this week raise questions, etc...espically the areas of WCF and security!
It's fun being here in Seattle, but I'm realy looking forward to getting home again!
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