I left my house at 6:30 to avoid the traffic crunch, arrived in time to sit down and enjoy breakfast. Met a few from our user group njmsdev.org and sat down for the opening keynotes (there weren’t 50 people there at 8:15). I signed up for the Smart Client Track, where one of the presenters was James Arendt, whom I met at the 2002 Visual Studio.Net Launch in Parsippany NJ (there were over a thousand developers that day), he was a Java Developer then but quickly adapted to .Net. We were to have a Dev Dinner after DevDays, but there weren’t any suitable places in the swamps of Jersey, so we gathered at the bar (better to network and drink then to sit in traffic). I got to meet Scott Watermasysk; two years ago I joined his NJ .Net UG with a cool website, one of the first in ASP.Net. I also met Doug Seven; three years ago I joined his community site! Circles are closing….