I've got to say, I've been really impressed by the number and quality of the attendees from Microsoft -- Simon Guest, Howard Dierkin, Peter Provost, Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman... and I'm sure I missed others. These folks have been extremely willing to listen to feedback, and to give us a bit of insight into the workings of Microsoft. Ironically enough, the room full of agile devs didn't know about the MS Agile Development Center ......
There's no lack of blog entries about this.... but I'm going to add my two cents worth. Scott Guthrie spent about an hour demonstrating the new ASP.NET MVC project that should be released to the public. This is one of the coolest technologies I've seen in a long time. The MVC project team designed based on a few very important principles -- separation of concerns, extensibility, and designed for testing. Let me say this again.... Microsoft is working on a development tool that is designed for testability ......
I've somehow found myself at a conference of agile practitioners in Austin, TX called ALT.NET. My main reason for attending this conference was a deep desire to explore what options exist for development processes. (Little did I know what I was going to be getting myself into...) Scott Bellware had also received a tremendous response to his initial post describing the conference. I have to confess a certain selfishness in wanting to spend a weekend in a room full of people far brighter than myself. ......