Tim Huckaby did a fantastic job with his presentation tonight about smart clients and why you would (should?) pick them over a web application. He's also a great presenter - some presenters use Powerpoint as a crutch, where as Tim knows exactly where he's going and the slides are just an aide for him. I was impressed. His demos were good too - I'm looking forward to downloading the code and checking out how some of it is put together.

He laid out the "Big Three" platforms for smart clients: .NET winforms (the one I'm most used to), VSTO (NuSoft does a little bit here) and the compact framework. Is anyone seriously developing for Pocket PCs right now though? I'm not doubting him - I'm just not seeing it. Although, he did have a pretty sweet demo for the compact framework...

Oh yeah. If you were there, I was one of the guys in the back getting in trouble for talking!