Last weekend I was at the Dallas Tech Fest in Addison.  Overall it was great experience, with a good line-up of speakers, and the best part is that it was free! 

I attended a session on Google Android, the new software stack for mobile devices. The session included overview of Google's goal, along with it's partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is to build the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.  There were also demonstrations of map integration and opengl using java and eclipse.  What I find interesting is that Android platform uses a tool to convert the Java bytecode into DEX, which runs in the register-based Dalvik virtual machine.  So, I'm thinking that there is potential to leavrage c# and the .net framework, here provided that a IL-to-DEX linker could be built.

I also saw Richard Campbell's presentation on scaling ASP.NET Web applications.  This guy is a great speaker, and the topic is timely as the number of users continue to grow on the websites I work on.  Concurently, I'm also reading Scaling Internet Architectures.

Joseph Hill of Novell gave a talk on Mono, the open-source platforms for .NET.  The presentation was about half question-and-answer, which generated some interesting discussions about the direction of the project, timelines, pitfalls and successes of building an open architecture.  The moonlight stuff sounds promising.