I went to the Deeper in .NET training session today. It was a free event put on by the Wisconsin .NET User Group. The lineup of speakers was sensational: Scott Guthrie, Rob Howard, Rocky Lhotka, Jason Beres, and Chris Mayo. No offense to the other speakers, but I went solely to hear Rocky speak. He wrote the book Expert C# Business Objects, and it is a very well-done book. If you're doing .NET, you should definitely pick up a copy and maybe even read it. (Thanks for the pointer to this book, Mark!)

Rocky did not disappoint the packed crowd, and delivered an exceptional talk about Distributed Application Architecture in .NET. His main focus seemed to stem from one of his more recent blog entries where he advocates sensible (and sparring) use of tiers, but heavy reliance on layers. It was a very entertaining and well-reasoned talk. Ah, but who knows, maybe I just think this because I've been advocating the same idea for many years.