After a snowy weekend being stuck in Minnesota I was greeted by an email in my inbox saying that I was registered for the 2008 ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle conference. Last year the Alt.NET generated a lot of post-conference buzz and was where the .NET MVC Framework was announced by Scott Guthrie.
After looking at the list of participants I'm gushing with enthusiasm. I feel like a 14 year old freshman who was just asked to the homecoming dance by the homecoming queen. For the sports enthusiast, I feel like Jason Kapono at the NBA All-Star game. Kapono won the three point shootout, but many of you are probably asking yourselves, "who is Jason Kapono?" Kapono, and his three-point skill, was overshadowed by the All-Star game itself and all of the NBA talent on the floor at one time. I am Jason Kapono. I must admit I have borderline unhealthy geek-love-man-crush on some of the attendees (listed in no particular order):
Sure, these guy go to conferences and it's not rare that they're in the same place. What is rare, is that they're all together and there are only 150 participants. That means the geek-expert to journeyman ratio is going to be quite high. In other words, they can't avoid me.
Martin, will you autograph my POEA book?
This blog contains the thoughts and discoveries of Tim Barcz, a technologist with a interests in computer programming technologies.