I'm just back from Portland and OOPSLA 2006, where I had a very good time. Here are a few comments:
It was (as always) great fun to work with Niclas. We had a hands-on tutorial about TDD and the participants chose between Java and .NET.
This was the first conference where I used my Mac laptop and I'm starting to grow very fond of it. I was told I would become popular if I had a Mac so I basically had no other choice
but to go out and buy one...
;-)
Maybe I have become anti-new stuff, I don't know, but the best presentations/tutorials/demonstrations I saw were given by old friends about somewhat familiar (although still VERY new) topics:
Charles Simonyi on their Intentional Programming.
Eric Evans' DDD-tutorial with the sub-heading "Putting the Model to Work". I especially liked the part about focusing more energy on the Value Objects as opposed to what is common.
Erik Meijer demonstrating LINQ with his extreme energy level.
Oh, and as always the best part was meeting old and new friends, but enough namedropping for today.
:-)
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