Day 4
So here we are again. Each day more exciting than the next. I've actually altered my schedule for today based on the previous days' experiences. I was planning on attending more Avalon sessions when I originally set up the schedule, but after seeing it I realized no longer needed to make those sessions a priority. Everything I need to know about Avalon I can learn from the online reference. I already understand the major facets of the technology having spent the past five or so years working with DHTML, CSS and even dabbling in SVG. The people who really need to attend those sessions are the people who were in denial about needing to learn (X)HTML and clung tightly to their HWNDs.
So, with that out of the way, what have I decided to fill those session slots with? Well right now I'm sitting here preparing for my second taste of WinFS. I was simply blown away when I saw it yesterday. Not because it was revolutionary, because if you've done any O/R mapping work then you're familiar with it, but because they actually did it. It's there. It's native in Windows. It's not just a layer on top of a SQLServer database.