This month has required a lot of work related travel.
I was in Wisconsin for a user-group event last Saturday (http://www.wi-ineta.org/). I actually arrived Friday night at mid-night, did a 2 hour talk starting at 9:45am, and was on my way to the airport back shortly past noon – which meant 16 hours of travel to/from Seattle via Minneapolis but only a little over 12 hours total in Wisconsin itself.
I am heading down late tomorrow night for the SD West conference in San Jose (http://www.sdexpo.com/) where I am giving two talks Wednesday morning before heading back to Seattle that afternoon.
I just realized today that I am also then heading to Orlando this weekend to give the keynote and two breakout talks at the ASP.NET Connections conference (http://www.asp-connections.com/). For some reason I thought this was the following weekend, and so need to now come up with a good 45 minute keynote topic in the next few days.
I’m looking for suggestions on what to talk about. I have a standard one that I give on ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer 2005, but which I’m growing bored giving, so would love to hear suggestions on new things to cover. I was originally thinking about doing one on IIS7 and showing that off, but think it might be better to wait until the fall for that (so that the main focus stays on Whidbey and what people will be able to-do this year as opposed to next).
Two other keynote possibilities:
1) Talk about the end-to-end lifecycle of building/maintaining applications. Show of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio – but then also show off VSTS support for web apps and talk about enterprise deployments and such.
2) Provide an inside look into how we build ASP.NET. Walkthrough the Microsoft development process, how we structure teams and projects, and what all we do during the product cycle to get to a shipping state. I actually think this talk could be a lot of fun.
Thoughts? Preferences? I’d be very interested in what people think would be cool to hear.