Brainshare ThoughtsI'm still trying to collect all my thoughts from the annual trek to Brainshare. One of the biggest wins for me personally was having Peter Bartok get the latest version of Mono and the Windows Forms stuff up and running on my laptop. I'm really looking forward to getting a copy of SUSE 9.3 professional to try out. Looks like it will have a boatload of cool stuff.
After a slight delay due to the default install of Novell Linux Desktop under VMware 5.0 he got the latest source using SVN and built everything from there. It's really cool to take an EXE created on Windows and see it just run on Linux. Even works (for the most part) with VB.Net. I did, however, manage to find a small bug with the date picker control.
Bottom line from the conference for me was the energy that Novell seems to be getting from the new Linux direction. You can see it in the employees, you can hear it in their presentations and hopefully it will result in continued growth for the company.
I'm reminded of a line from the movie
It's a Wonderful Life, "This town needs this measly old building and loan (re: Novell) if for no other reason
