If there ever was a day that embodied "subject to change", today would be it. Chaos abounded, and plans changed... but such is life.

Apparently, the PDC organizers thought we'd think Indigo is just a flash in the pan, and that Don Box doesn't really know what he's talking about... it's the only reason I can think of that would justify putting the first half of the Indigo intro/overview sessions in a medium-small room... and the second part in an even smaller room... or so I assume.

I assume because I wasn't even *close* to getting into the second one. You see, the first room was so jam-packed full of people by the doors, sitting on the floor, and I'm assuming swarming around the TV in the hall, that as the session ended... chaos. Imagine rush-hour traffic, on the day before Thanksgiving... yeah. So, eventually I make it over to the second-part session, actually beating Mr. Box over there, only to see that it was already full, with a giant crowd formed around the TV, and LA Convention Center bouncer at the door. One side note - the "bouncer" tried to get smart w/ Don, asked to see his ID and wanted to know why he was barging past him into an obviously full room... Heh.

Regardless, I went sessionless for that hour, as the ASP.Net Master Pages/etc session was the Hands-On lab in session form, and having to watch *that* on a TV in the hall was just too much. So, I headed over to the room for the ASP.Net Caching vWhidbey session... I was *not* going to miss out on that one.

The caching session was well worth while, providing new ways of managing caching for SQL 7, 2000, and Yukon. Of course, the coolest way of doing it was Whidbey<->Yukon, but the SQL 7/2000 way was also quite useful... check it out here... it's about halfway down the page.

Monday night, during the Weblogging BOF, someone had mentioned that the session on Avalon/Longhorn's identification system would be worth while to us social-software types. I went, and it showed up some pretty slick coding conventions, including the one-line way to launch an IM session with a contact garnered from anywhere in the system through WinFS. Very nice.

So, I leave you now with tonight's BOF sessions in front of me. I'm planning on hitting Smart Client apps, Nuts and Bolts, and "Tales From the Front Line", provided I can stay awake... mayhaps, I'll find another burst of energy somewhere. :)

I'm almost glad that Yukon/Whidbey is coming about halfway along the way to Longhorn... makes prioritizing all this just a little bit easier.

A really little bit.

- G


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