Dan's lecture promised a lot, I carefully reviewed the slides prior of the event, and decided to go to this lecture, first it promised the most advanced issues and second I so far scratched the surface of Ajax and it is good opportunity to learn more on this.
Dan stated the lecture with good pace, moving swiftly into the architecture of the Web model.
I think he should have elaborated more on this subject, it would be a very critical point of the lecture to keep the audience well understood what he is going to do and especially where. Because of the pace I don't think all understood how the pipeline is structured and what is the role of each piece in it. It is very important to explain in more than a sentence what is an HttpHandler, especially when you are about to build one.
Dan is a very good developer and he has a developer instincts one can tell, his typing abilities are very good, but if I need to know that, something is wrong. Dan allocated more than 50% of his time to type and debug his typos, and that is just wrong, I don't need to really count "{" with him, it is not important, I can see his code later. More than that when Dan is concentrating on finding assemblies full names, I lose my patience and disconnect from the main objective of his code.
A good point was to show undocumented stuff, and code with reflector. This is what makes me interested, show me stuff I don't already know, or didn't have the time to dig in into internal code of Microsoft.
Anyway I really recommend you to watch this session on video, with that way you can skip the boring typing moments and concentrate on pure code and concepts. Past exprience from Teched is guratentee that those recorsing will be really high quality.
Now heading to Guy's lecture on Silverlight.
Got to see my Tweets there http://twitter.com/ArielBH
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Happy live blogging!
Ariel