If he's showing all these cool features in whidbey asp.net, I will be at ScottGu's talk. Skipping all these other talks.

Some highlights:

• Url Rewriting using the new UrlMapping Service.  Build vanity urls on your site (/products/shoes.aspx is re-written to really be processed by /products/productcatalog.aspx?id=shoes -- but the customer never knows it).  Talk about how this makes http.sys kernel level caching possible for dynamic pages.
• Using ValidationGroups.  You can now have validator controls optionally validate depending on which button on the page is pushed.  You can group validation rules into “groups“ so that all controls within that group fire or don't fire.

• Building workflow on a page using the new asp:Wizard control.  Handle next/back, step1->n workflows easily now (no funky state management tricks for controls required).

Transit strike in LA - since public transport has come to a standstill, no there are no leaves on the tracks , cabs are probably more problematic to get aswell.

Management day....

Johanna about choice and decisions.

Managers are paid to make decisions. When I've seen organizations fail, in each case, the management team forgot that their job was to make the tough decisions. Managers have to make decisions in the face of ambiguity. No decision is still a decision -- to continue on as in the past. Sometimes, that's the right decision.

From LauraJ's blog:

David Anderson quotes an answer by his boss on outsourcing at an all hands meeting. 

We will outsource when there is no knowledge associated with an activity, such as repetitive execution of test plans. We will not outsource where there is knowledge to be gained and retained such as writing test scripts or programming automated tests. We will also outsource when we have resource issues. We will look at each case in turn. When it makes commercial sense we will outsource to elevate a bottleneck.

Exactly.

Although still an Alpha release it looks promising

The ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant is designed to help you convert ASP pages and applications to ASP.NET. It does not make the conversion process completely automatic, but it will speed up your project by automating some of the steps required for migration.

A nice printable 10 day forecast for LA. Packing my shorts....

Jeff Sandquist send me an awesome blogging the PDC shirt.

Link to pictures of the 'blogging the PDC" shirt, since I don't have a digital camera.

Jeffrey McManus created order from chaos. If only someone would do the same with all other sessions and tracks.

ScottGu has a great tip how to use include files for your XML doc comments.

Jesse has some strong feeling on the GPL, which I can whole hartedly agree with.