Xperimentality

Last night I was working on my presentation for BUG.NET tonight and had a cool idea.

One of my many hobbies is magic.  I am a professional magician and proud member of IBM. UF Grant, a well known magician, published an entire magic act called "The Challenge Magic Act". The premise is that the magician enters the audience and promises to do an effect with any item handed to him.

Well I am going to do something similar tonight. I am going with no slides and no prepared code. I am going to ask the attendees to come up with some simple application ideas. One of them will be chosen and I will start from scratch and build a data-aware application using ASP.NET and ATLAS. I am going to try to complete the entire application in less than 15 minutes.

Now granted, the application will be a real simple one, but I am hoping to demonstrate the ease with which Visual Studio 2005, SQL Express 2005, and ATLAS can be used to quickly create a rich UI web application.  On top of that, hopefully it will be a lot of fun!