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The constant joke about the Microsoft Web Development Technology Summit was that they were spiking the Kool-Aid® with mind control drugs. There is direct evidence to the contrary: There was no Kool-Aid® The drugs were in the baconThey were Beggin'® Strips I love bacon Microsoft is totally amazing and great for open source and doesn't have ...

These guys wrote the book on Drupal. Maybe I'm just running out of steam, or it's just hard to summarize a summary. There have been hints that they will send a copy of their presentation, in which case I will post it (or link to it) for you.

Dave Fetterman is from facebook -- I think I mentioned him in passing before. The presentation thus far has been a shotgun intro to the facebook development process. Exciting words used so far: Sizzle Sugar Topics that he covered, at about this speed: Facebook Platform Technical Capabilities API: The Social Web Service FQL: Facebook-centric query language ...

A Conversation We Just Had In IRC jmullan: chris: who is this dude? ckdake: some guy The third speaker is actually pretty interesting in that he is talking about Iron Ruby and has a charismatic and energetic delivery. Oh, it's John Lam. I figured it out because he referenced an article by Jon Udell. Ooh, Boo! ...

Scott Guthrie is telling us about IIS. Not to be a wiseacre, but snooooooze. There is a tangential mention of an actually interesting thing, the MS SQL Server driver for PHP. We will get a whole session about that tomorrow. "Free visual web developer express edition" Strange that got mentioned, when it is "An ideal environment ...