I spent most of my time in the Community booths with Jim Wooley and Douglas McDowell, smack in the middle of the vendors and too close to the coffee for my health. I must have downed five cups o' joe while I talked to a huge percentage of the 2100 people in attendance. I had a great time talking to some really interesting people - look for some great stuff to come out of the new DotNetNuke user group in town. I gave the leader Josh some of my module ideas, so I hope he'll do all the hard work for me. I think traffic on the DevCow website will spike from the volume of people checking out the calendar.
Everyone I talked to had nothing but great things to say about the content they were hearing and about the free shirts and software they were getting from Microsoft. The vendors around me had some great giveaways and everyone who got their card stamped by 10 vendors (for the mere price of future spam) got to be entered in a drawing where the grand prize was an Xbox (not a 360). Dan told me they badly mis-pronounced his name when they called it out (they said something like 'Tony')...
-- Matt Ranlett