I think that the best summary I can give of my experience at this event is through the tweets I sent in real-time while there. Below, are what I think are my tweets most representative of the experience.
At first I hated that C# didn't have optional params. Now I know that life is better w/o them. Sorry C# 4.0.
Wells Fargo Center has much more comfy chairs than most conference centers #PDCPHX
"...and I say 'thingey' in the most technical way possible." - Rob Bagby #phxpdc
Did Rob Bagby just invoke Don Box? #phxpdc
XBox at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs Rob? #phxpdc
I don't envy @scottcate having to follow Rob Bagby at #phxpdc
Rob Bagby on Intellisense: "I just got nerdly goosebumps". #phxpdc
Notepad!!! #phxpdc
To the non-dev-geek members of my family: no I will not stfu about #phxpdc
I always feel so dirty after demos involving json. #phxpdc
Tunneling an HTTP Put through a Post seems like a massive cluge. #phxpdc
W00t, I finally got @stupiderr on Twitter!
Declarative programming, what a concept... #phxpdc
Rob Bagby is weakening on his anti-Twitter stance. Hit him now while his defenses are down. Resistance is Futile. #phxpdc
"automagically" is a word whose time has come and gone.
It's important for me to know what's available in the Ajax world, but I have no desire to live there anymore. Silverlight FTW!
OK, let's talk Silverlight! #phxpdc
@stupiderr "genie blink"? I am so uncool!
Azure Party Planning Services now live! #phxpdc
Rob Bagby can give presentations on the same topic 2 days in a row that are totally different and both awesome. #phxpdc
#phxpdc Crowd reference to "Hailstorm". Nicely done sir.
Imo the best example of cloud service bus at PDC was in the Don Box/Chris Anderson keynote. #phxpdc
He already said, "you don't need schema"... #phxpdc
First "Animal House" reference of the day goes to Rob. #phxpdc
I don't like the SOAP API for SDS right now. SQL string queries are so 1990s. #phxpdc
Using Linq to project query results into a POCO is awesome. #phxpdc
@steeleprice it means CLR Obj to me. That Linq trick should work in VB too. But then again, I'll always be VB at heart.
@scottcate, @jguadagno, and Rob were all amazing today! Great event! Thank you all!
Barry S. Stahl (he/him/his) - Barry is a .NET Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 35 years. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 40 year resident of Phoenix Arizona USA. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamp events, he spends his days as a Solution Architect for Carvana in Tempe AZ and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp event where software creators come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations.