I went to my first .net sig last night.  Of course I was a little late, and left a little early.  Nothing like good first impressions  :)

Already a fan of Mark Miller, I had pretty high hopes for the talk.  Although I think he had good intentions of speaking to component based development, the whole crowd never let him talk about it.  Of course he had his share of tangent's too, but I think most of the presentation was consumed by the audience oohing and ahhing coderush, and for good reason.  To see what Mark could do with what seemed like almost no typing was amazing. 

Besides Coderush, Mark also spoke alot to context and UI design.  You could tell that he loves usability just by how excited he got talking about it, and some of the concepts he was throwing around were very good, and I will certainly be taking some of his suggestions into consideration next time I have to lay something out.  Man I wish I had his knack for usability.

I had tried to try coderush before, with no luck.  Come to find out, it was something that has since been identified and addressed.  So, last night I installed the coderush trial.  I'm siked.  I can't wait to play with it, and I have some ideas on how to extend it.  Oh, that was the other thing.  Mark was showing us how to extend DxCore which is the free core to CodeRush.  Although I didn't see the end product, it looked like extending coderush was a pretty simple task. 

Anyway, I've rambled on enough.  If your a local I hope to see you at the next SIG, hopefully I'll be a regular now.  If not, then go try coderush if you haven't yet.