Like some of my colleagues, I too prefer to go sessions made by non-Israeli guests, and Ron Jacobs reputation is well ahead of him, note the ARCast show he been running in the past.

Well Ron is a good lecturer, funny, honest and smart but or he wasn't prepared or a very extreme case of bad luck happens to him, because the presentation just didn't take off. A plague of problems varying from screen resolution, unresponsive IIS to non-working demos. And boy the demos where supposed to be simple, nothing complicated, running an HTTP Post command to his web server.

I also doubt the reasons he had for making this session, it felt like we got down to earth session, about a guy trying to find his way on a new domain, we all can sympathies with it, but is it what you came to listen to in Teched? I don't know.

The main conclusion I got from this show, don't try using REST with WCF without an WCF expert watching your back, there is so little information about that you will be on your own fighting IIS, WCF, HTTP handlers that doesn't behave.

I don't want to be a pioneer in this issue, if Ron got problems what you will do?

I would wait for ADO.net data services before trying my hands with REST.

Ariel

BTW this REST hype really got me off my guard, when it is becomes such an hot subjet?