Last week has been very hectic to say the least with preparations for my all day post conference session at Mobile Connections in Las Vegas. The conference is still two weeks away, but I have been struggling to meet the deadline to submit a slide deck and sample code. The idea is to create a full functioning Line-of-Business application from scratch during the post conference. Of course it will not be feasible to type in each and every individual line of code, but I am seriously considering creating a new project and just take it from there. Thank goodness Visual Studio 2005 has great possibilities to use code snippets and I probably need to make good use of those, after all, it will become extremely boring and it seems like a waste of time to see somebody typing source code, making many mistakes and ending up with a non working application. So I will try to create an application from scratch, but make extensive use of code snippets. This allows more time to explain newly added code and it still holds lots of challenges. What if I forget to insert one or more snippets? What if I insert snippets at the wrong location in source files? The solution here is practice, practice and even more practice. That is what the upcoming week will be all about. And even then I will create ready to run versions for each individual demonstration as well, just as a safety net. For me personally this is going to be the best prepared presentation ever. Will that be a guarantee towards success? Well, it is a little early to give an answer to that question, but three weeks from now I am happy to share the results with you. So I am back in the country of 24 hour shopping, great TV series, hamburgers and many, many other things. After staying one week in hot and hopefully sunny Phoenix, it is time to move on to Redmond for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 launch event. Hopefully there is also time to meet some of my friends within Microsoft and last but not least I hope there are also chances to meet with some product teams. To recover from the rainy Pacific Northwest I will fly back to Phoenix for the weekend and after that on to Las Vegas for the Mobile Connections conference. Mobile Connections is part of DevConnections, a large conference that will probably occupy the entire conference space at Mandalay Bay. If practicing my sessions goes well I will of course publish about the conference on the blog here at DotNETForDevices as well. First thing to do quickly now is getting over jetlag and get all those demos running smooth and without errors.