I met Jay Zimmerman at the Philadelphia Java user group meeting last night (hey, I go where any developers go!) and he told me about this conference coming to Philadelphia from March 11th through 13th.  The Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium used to be all Java based, but attendees requested .NET sessions, so they get a full track for .NET this time around.

Jay told me that there were no vendors, no marketing, and no sales pitches.  Five tracks (again, one is all .NET), 50 sessions.  Limit of 250 attendees.  Sounds like our upcoming code camp in April, but a bit smaller.

There's a $675 special early bird discount valid thru February 14th or whenever they sell out. There is a special $50 discount for all .Net User Group members through Monday, February 14th. Please use discount code, nfjs2005spec, when registering and the discount will be applied.  Okay, there's another difference from Code Camp.

Cost notwithstanding,  I do appreciate that they're doing .NET now, this is very, very cool.