I’m in Redmond (WA) for the next couple of days particpating in a unique event on campus - the Web Development Technology Summit. This summit brings together 20 or so (non-Microsoft) web development influentials in for a conversation with Microsoft on our web technology strategy and future directions. People like Ilia Alshanetsky, Sean Coates, Josh Knowles, Reg Cheramy, Andrew Stopford, David Sklar and several others.
On the agenda are talks around ASP.NET, LINQ, Atlas, IIS7, Expression, Windows Communication Foundation, IronPython, and Windows Workflow. A *ton* of great material to cover in 2-days!
This isn’t a ploy by Microsoft to try to brainwash these fine friends of PHP-land but to open up a dialogue; show them some of our tools and technolgies and garner their feedback - good or bad. A chance to learn something from both sides of the fence. I know I plan on tackling Josh Knowles tonight at dinner to talk about Ruby on Rails and how, after seeing ASP.NET, their might be an opportunity to develop a similar philosophy that RoR lives by in .NET.
On the Microsoft front, we’re bringing out our big guns. People like Scott Guthrie, Anders Hejlsberg, Brad Abrams and Don Box.
It’s shaping up to be a great event. I’m really excited to get a chance to discuss the differences/similarities between the two camps. Dinner tonight should be highly entertaining.
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