Last friday, december 17th, Dutch user group SDN organized a meeting entirely dedicated to mobility. It was lovely; imagine a day spent entirely on Pocket PC, Tablet PC and the like. The presentations went far beyond the usual “hello world” demo's. Especially the .net compact  framework is so straightforward to program that the speakers could focus on real issues as multi-threaded programming, the architecture of a smart client and the OpenNetCF framework. All of that would tempt you to start freaking out completetly. In the keynote was a nice quote on that:

• Two industries who call their clients “users” are the IT guys and the drug dealers. The first rule of being a drug dealer is ”Don’t get high on your own supply” an IT guys rule should be similar and they should write the code that makes the game, not waste their time in someone else’s GUI.

I don't know who really said that, I don't think the speaker had invented it himself, and Google did not bring me any further. Anyone ?

Another noteworthy thing was the presentation of Sander “devtips” Gerz on programming for the tablet PC. Visited by almost 50 developers (on a total of ~300). There were quite a number of tablets around. I brought my own to check me email using the hotspot. And Ginny Caughey did a presentation on creating mobile apps in Visual Studio. To operate the stylus of the emulated Pocket PC she used the pen of her tablet. Which adds a lot to the realism of the emulation.

Just read that Teun was there to.

Peter