Tulsa TechFest 2008
Monday, October 13 2008 - Blog
Holy smokes, did I have a blast at Tulsa TechFest! It was a great couple of days hanging out with some great speakers, like Randy Walker, Caleb Jenkins, Zain, Chris, Phil and many more. I did presentations on three different topics. The first of these was called Building Services That Rock, the second was Intro to C# 3.0, and finally an intro to Parallelism in .NET. All were well received, I believe, and I thank David for having me out to speak again.
This was my first time back since the original Tulsa TechFest in 2006. In the year between I went to Heartland Developer Conference. I've had a fantastic at both events, but Tulsa TechFest's enormous size in comparison to HDC and never ending topics is just immensely compelling. At this one conference I could have seen talks on Robotics Studio, Expression Blend, C#, VB, LINQ, Sharepoint, Silverlight, and TDD. When I say I could have seen these, I mean without conflicts, attending all keynotes, and that is just one possible path through this conference extravaganza.
Seriously, if you've not ventured to Tulsa TechFest, check it out next year. And keep your eyes here for an announcement soon about Dallas TechFest 2009.
- #1 Tim Franklin on 10.14.2008 at 8:20 PM
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I attended your Intro to C# 3.0 class and thought you did a great job presenting. I'm a VB developer (company mandate sort of thing) but I find a lot of what look like great examples online but I wanted to learn the syntax better and keep up with what's new and improved. Some of the concepts you spoke about carry over to VB as well, so I was particularly glad to have sat in and listened. Thanks for the great talk! I posted about my TechFest experience at www.famunit.com/.../Tulsa-TechFest- and mentioned you specifically so I wanted to make sure you knew about the feedback. Thanks again.




