Late post, I know. Almost a week has passed. But it took me this long to come up for air.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself at TechEd Developers. Jeff threw a good party. I attended lots of sessions from the architecture track. I got to shake hands with some of my blogging heroes. Even got to get up on stage and help Roy with one of his sessions. 

I learned some new technology, but more importantly, I left with a better understanding of how to put it all together. One of the memorable quotes, in regards to Linq to SQL, went something like, "and now you are going to go out there, and write brand new legacy code..." No, I am not going to go write new legacy code, I vow do do it right.

Promises to myself

1. From now on, all my future projects bigger than the one or two page quickie, will use properly designed architecture using proper separation of concerns, dependency injection, inversion of control, test driven development (maybe, that last one is hard for me without a mentor to assist), and lots of other similar goodness.
2. I will start attending local .NET user group meetings, I will start contributing to open source projects that interest me, etc. I will contribute back to the community.
3. I won't wait nearly a decade before going to another TechEd or similar conference. Working from home full time is great, but there is something cool about being surrounded by so many geeks.