Atlas at GANG last week
Joe Stagner, from the ASP.NET product team comes to the big DFirst, I want to thank Drew Robbins for all his hard work to help bring Joe Stagner to GANG. Joe spent the evening giving us a wealth of information about Atlas. See the links for his blog entry where you can download the slides and the demos.
Second, and more importantly, I want to thank Joe for all the time he spent with our members to discuss Atlas, and its strengths and weaknesses vs. other technologies (both web and smart client). We got a great overview of the Atlas architecture, its strengths, and its weaknesses. He made me think more about how the line between web applications and smart clients has been blurred again (until WPF gets released, but that’s next month).
But, even better than the presentation was the discussion period at the end. Joe had a lengthy list of questions for us, as developers and customers. That was fantastic. We got to tell him everything Good, Bad, and Ugly about .NET. And, he participated in the discussion and openly discussed the areas where .NET needs improvement. The discussions included CAS, Ruby, python, LAMP, AJAX vs. Atlas, and ASP.NET vs. smart client and client / server technologies.
I hope Drew has other product team contacts to bring out for us.
Joe Stagner's slides and demosAlong with a great picture of Drew