Orlando, Day 1

From suicidal tendencies to elation.

I am here for special pre- and post-conference discussions. Instead of a bunch of short sessions, we stay in one special topical ALL DAY long. So I started my day with a new MS technology that I know we won't be using at ILS. Then I hopped to agile management-- great topic if you've ever read up on it; horrible speaker. I was getting pretty depressed about my career in general-- how phucking boring could this be? I'd much rather have been at a coaching or sports physiology conference than this.

After lunch I hit a very tech specific discussion of Visual Basic. Hmmm, life is getting better. After that I managed to work my way into a waaaaaay crowded room where Rockford Lhotka was speaking. Odd that one of the most brilliant MS business object minds in the country is named Rocky. I also did not figure him to be a goofy white dude with a goatee. I just assume bad ass programmers with a last name like Lhotka are gonna be some derivative of Eastern Bloc descent and speak English like someone from Dr. Zhivago. I was wrong.

One of my coworkers worships Lhotka and now I understand why. Man, this guy makes me wanna go out and recode everything I've ever written.

I'll be sure to get his next framework books that's coming out.