I'm actually writing this blog entry from the HOL room in the Intellinet offices as Dan wraps up his presentation of the 200 level content. We had a similar level of audience dropoff between the level 100 HOL and the level 200 HOL. Last time we had nearly 40 people show up where this time we had just under 20. The nice thing about the smaller audience is that the group was much more managable when things went wrong (as they inevitably do thanks to typos and the like).
Dan did a good job leading people through the Frontpage demo, the simple web part, and the deployment of web parts. We gave the group about 45 minutes of self directed study time to go at their own pace in the middle of the presentation. This gave us an opportunity to work with the people who's virtual machines were giving them problems while the ones who felt confident zipped through the development of another two web parts. Everyone finished at about the same time (thanks largely to the wandering help Brendon and Keith provided) and everyone practiced deployment with Dan.
I've not seen the surveys yet, but I'm confident that everyone attending had a good experience and is going to walk away with some great knowledge.
Thanks again to Intellinet for offering us the HOL lab space!
-- Matt Ranlett