Tech.Ed Technical Content
I've been checking with a few people here, getting feedback on the technical content of the sessions.
For those that don't know, they're rated as follows in the session guide:
- 100 - Introduction to Material
- 200 - Strategic Overviews
- 300 - Advanced Level
- 400 - Expert Level
What I've found is that I'm attending a few 300 and 400 level talks that seem like they really should have been rated as 200... most of the presenters have been really good, but the level of technical detail has been poor, and in some cases missing. I mean, we're mostly developers (ignoring all the Managers that have come here for a holiday and can't understand most of what's being said, but that's another gripe)... we want to see code, we want to see it work, I'm getting a little tired of being told how it works and what it looks like, I want to see it!
Anyway, that's my opinion, and as always there have been exceptions, of note was Matthew Hardman's talk about Building Secure Applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework. He showed the code, and gave examples of when to use each of the methods. The only gripe I had with his talk was that he didn't repeat the questions before answering them, so not all of us knew what he was answering (this was about the only good thing about the C# Present & Future talk I went to as he repeated every question for our benefit, the rest was very poor).
Anyone else have simmilar feelings, or better yet want to tell me I got it all wrong? :)