Today I spoke at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria and spoke on:

• Building RIA Services Applications
• Building RESTFul services with the OData protocol

In the RIA services talk, just like the other times I did it, I built a simple application from scratch. Here is what I did:

• Added a Silverlight Business Application
• Changed the Title to DevReaCH (I accidently hit cap locks in the session)
• Mapped an EF model to Northwind
• Created a Domain Service
• Wrote a business rule in said service
• Made fun of Canada
• Showed the client site generated code
• Added a DataGrid and wrote code to fill it
• Asked the audience if they thought the code would work
• Fixed the bug I introduced in my code
• Dragged and dropped a Data Source to datagrid with automatic binding
• Added a data pager with no code
• Added a filter with no code
• Added a “Save” button with no code
• Added Steve Jobs as a customer (and told the audience how much I hate him)
• Went into the metadata class and added validation
• Viewed the validation
• Exposed the RIA Service as an OData feed
• Told everyone about OData in <5 minutes (and said they were excused from my OData talk later in the day)

The OData talk did more of the same, same as my TechEd talk, so you can download the slides and demos here.

I also recorded an episode of .NET Rocks with Richard and Carl.

Tomorrow is a Scrum talk with Joel.

Good times.