It seems that the excitement continues to ratchet up at DevTeach 2007.  In addition to some of the greatest presentations in North American history, it seems that Jean-Rene Roy and the rest of the executive have creatively added a brand new attraction that I've never seen at any conference yet; the presentation version of "Survivor"!!

At least, that's the only possible explanation I can see for what is literally a change from just *yesterday*...

to *today*...


That's right, apparently only at DevTeach will you be able to see Jeffrey Palermo and I do nearly identical presentations on exactly the same topic!!  Forget about D'Arcy Lussier's claims that I am somehow going to have a throwdown with one of the castoffs from Color Me Badd!  It looks like Mr. Palermo has decided *he* wants to take aim at the sexiest developer alive.

I can almost visualize what transpired in a darkened room in Austin, TX:

"He has amazing shirts, fantastic hair, oozes machismo, and people rip their clothes off at the sight of him.  How can I get a piece of that action?  He's not even an MVP!!!  I need to know HIS SECRET!!!"  (slams hands on table)

(frantic pacing, weeping, follows for 30 min.  Then...)

"That's *IT*!!  He's presenting on the MVC and *that's* why he's routinely mobbed by hordes of college women!  YOU'RE MINE JUSTICE GRAY!! MIIIINE" (cue cackling maniacally as Jeffrey twirls his imaginary moustache)

Jeffrey's wife (knocks on door): "Honey, are you done in there?  It's time for dinner!!"

Jeffrey: "I said IN A MINUTE!!" (frantically puts his shirt back on and rolls up his Justice Gray poster)

Jeff obviously wants to harness some of that raw metrosexual joie de vivre for himself, and who can blame him?  I'd want to capture it as well if I were not already me!  Jeff, I know you want more than anything in the world to come home to your wife and children with a crate full of women's underwear and loudly proclaim, "This got thrown at me in Vancouver!!  In public!!"  but the MVC is *not* the path to being covered in frilly lace garments.  Do not blame my upcoming presentation on the MVC for my status as the focal point of society's carnal desires.  Instead, blame the *real* culprit: genetics.  If I can give you any advice as a role model to millions and a brother in Christ, it is that ridiculous good looks don't come from presentations on *any* topic; they come from the heart.  If I could give you any *other* advice it is that you probably won't be able to become a software development sex symbol when you're throwing extravagant parties full of dudes. 

I know some of you are disappointed to hear this, but there will be no octagon matches between Palermo and Gray at DevTeach where I end up stuffing him into a serving wench dress.  And that same some of you should probably seek therapy.  Jeff P presenting on MVC is good news for you at DevTeach, and it's good news for your freedom of choice!  Believe it or not, not *every* software developer wants to come to presentations involving Mexican wrestler masks, public intoxication, sexual harassment and the threat of potential lawsuits.  Some people want to see technical presentations with technical *content*; thankfully, I know Jeffrey Palermo can provide it in spades!!  For the rest of you, nothing changes at DevTeach on Thursday, Nov 29th at 3 PM...except your LIVES.

FOREVER.