First notes from TechEd

- We built the DeKlarit booth today, so I got to see the exhibit hall. It's huge. I think it's the biggest I've ever seen.

- I'm in the Marriot next to the Convention Center. The hotel is nice but the high speed internet sucks. I think I'll switch to dialup if it doesn't get better. Luckily I'm probably not the only one complaining.

- I went to the Code Generation BOF. We build a code-generation tool so I did not want to participate in the discussion because it would seem that I was promoting it. I was really not very impressed with the kind of thing people is building. We've been writing code generation tools for 15 years so we've got past the 'how should I store my metadata/how I encode my business rules' discussion a long time ago. Our approach was to store the metadata in a database and create a declarative language for the rules.