Wednesday was exciting and choc full-o-goodness. I spent a lot of time talking to people inside Microsoft. If you've never been to Tech Ed, you may not appreciate how valuable this interaction is. There are representatives of every team inside Microsoft standing around for the sole purpose of interacting with customers. This is a terrific opportunity to find out about features and technologies you may be interested in.
I attended one breakout session on test driven development. It was the best session I've seen this week, and I will be sharing the slide with my peers when I return to the office. This is a difficult practice to sell to people with little experience. There were some good examples used to explains the benefits of a TDD approach.
At lunch, I had a great discussion with Noah Coad and Abhijit Rao about encouraging change at th