I made to CodeMash with about 10 minutes to register before the morning keynote. I'm really glad I made it to the keynote, which was about domain specific languages. Neal Ford did a really good job and I can't wait to go back through his presentation and compare it to my notes about ways I could incorporate DSL into some various ideas I have. I'm not ready to share those ideas yet, but when I feel like they're not totally silly I'll be posting them here.

Other sessions I attended today were ...

• Smart Clients - more like an introduction and didn't see anything I didn't already know.
• Ruby on Rails - This was a pretty cool session on Active Record and talking about how Rails works. My only complaint is that I should have sat closer because I couldn't read the text on the code examples.
• TDD - a session about benefits from TDD beyond the main idea of units tests - very good.
• An excellent keynote by Bruce Eckel that ... well ... I'm not sure what the focus was, but it was very entertaining and sparked some interesting thoughts.

I'm not sure what to expect tomorrow, but if its anything like today I'm going to be rocked. I know it starts off with Scott Guthrie doing a talk on LINQ, which I'm stoked for.

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