Finishing Up this Morning at TechEd 2003

I've got two sessions this morning before I head back to Atlanta this afternoon.  I struggled through two boring sessions yesterday afternoon, while finding one that was pretty good.  It was "Building Application Back-Ends Quickly" by Kate Gregory and Kenneth Spencer.  There was good discussion of design patterns and lots of examples of code generation.  They did not, however, mention Eric Smith's CodeSmith, which would beat their tools hands down.  They also did not mention O/R mappers, my latest interest, which promises to make lots of code obsolete, generated or not.  Last night was the big attendee party -- it featured SmashMouth and the WallFlowers.  Good music, but its just hard to get a bunch of techies, mostly male, to get real excited, so it seemed a little dull.