Well, now that I'm back from Tech Ed, it's time to look back through my notes and start writing down my thoughts on what I did and what I saw. I'm starting that right now, but I wanted to get some things out there first.

While the technical content at Tech Ed is awesome, I'm debating if the content was better than the people you get to meet and interact with. I'm not sure. I think I've made a few contacts that could potentially be life long relationships. That's more important than the technology I'll be using over the next two or three years, isn't it?

So, who did I meet at Tech Ed? Well, the list is long considering it was only a few days and I'm not the type of person who just walks up to someone to introduce myself - although I did just that more than a few times. I actually kind of surprised myself. Anyway, most of the people I met were due to Drew Robbins. I used to work with him, and he was awesome about getting us into events and introducing us to other developers. Drew, thanks for everything the past week! It meant a lot.

Here's a list of some of the people I met - these are mainly people who I read before I met them this week - no order, just the order I happened to remember them in.

Jeff Julian - He runs Geeks With Blogs, and even convinced me to move my 'Dojo blog over to GWB.
Doug Seven - He started DotNetJunkies and SqlJunkies, and now works on the MSDN team.
Andrew Connell - I planned ahead of time on meeting him somehow while I was at Tech Ed. It turned out we both got a nice look into the vision of CMS vNext together.
Eric Matz: I didn't even realize he had a blog until after I got back, but I did probably talk to him the most while I was there.
Rob Rohr - he wrote a tool that imported the Tech Ed schedule into OneNote - where I took my notes on the sessions. I just happened to see his nametag on the way out of a session and introduced myself as a user.
Carl Franklin - He introduced himself as Don Box to me at a party Wednesday night. We talked for about 15 minutes or so. He even knew of my blog from some posts I have about DotNetRocks.
Marc Miller - I quickly met Marc, but nothing more than that. I only added him to the list because watching him demo CodeRush made me want to laugh. It was tough to watch him up there and take him seriously after hearing him on Mondays. That, and I had a strange desire to call him names!
Dave Bost - A blogger out of Chicago I read. I met him Monday night.
Dave Donaldson - Another blogger I read and knew would be at the party Monday night.
James Avery - I introduced myself to James, and we chatted for a while Monday night, and then again on Wednesday night. James also wrote Visual Studio Hacks, which I've talked about before.
Arpan Shah - he's the program manager for CMS, and was kind enough to sit down with a small group of us after one of his sessions and chat about CMS for a few minutes.
Josh Ledgard - He's on the MSDN team, and (I think) was very involved in the MSDN forums. We talked for a little bit about the integration between the forums and VS.NET 2005 help.
Jim Newkirk - He's on the GotDotNet team, and we talked briefly about the future of GotDotNet
Betsy Aoki - She's also on the GotDotNet team. Brian has a post of one of her emails she sent him.
Jason Olson - I blogged about him recently, and he recently commented on that post.

Those are probably the highlights of the people I met. I met others, and if I left you out of the list, I apologize. It wasn't intentional! It's almost 1 AM, so I'm having trouble thinking of everyone right now.