I was up in Boston for the Web Services Edge East conference today to give a tutorial presentation about Enterprise Libarary.  I took out the slides that showed pasted code and ran demos on the fly to show how to work with the configuration editor, the configuration block, data access block, and logging and instrumentation block.

I was up after Doug Turnure, another DE on my team.  Doug's a fun presenter, and I got a kick out of his talk around new language features in VS 2005.  My biggest concern was that I got sick on the way to the airport, worse during the flight, and got basically no sleep after popping Actifeds all night.  It turned out that most people couldn't tell, and my voice only started to go near the end.  Several people told me that it was their first view of EntLib, and even of our application blocks in general.  They thought it was something that would save them some time and effort.   I couldn't agree more.

Like Doug, I also met Julia Lerman for the first time, after having chatted in e-mails with her a few times.  I have to agree with Doug's assessment, she's definitely a "hoot." :)