Well today is the kick off for the first Patterns & Practices Summit here in Redmond. I can't wait for this event to kick off. Keith and a number of the PAG guys have been working on this thing literally for months. All of that prep work is now going to come to fruition. This is the third event I believe that Guided Design has done. We are changing things up a little bit this time. We have broadened the speaker list this time around. We now have folks like Rocky Lhotka, Ted Neward and Billy Hollis speaking on topics they are excited about. We also have a number of Microsoft speakers including Blake Stone, Gianpaolo Carraro, Mike Kropp, Ron Jacobs, Sandy Khaund and Ward Cunningham. Second big change we made is that we are staying pretty close to the material that the Patterns & Practices team has released over the last two years. If you take a look at our session schedule you can pretty much match the material up to their corresponding blocks. There is a wealth of information to be mined in the blocks so I think this is a great approach.
I don't speak until tomorrow but I will be hanging around over the next three days in the back of the room. Please stop by and let me know what you think about the event.