--- title: "Geek Dinner was juust fine..." url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/geek-dinner-was-juust-fine.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/geek-dinner-was-juust-fine.html" published: "2004-11-29T18:09:00" updated: "2004-11-29T18:09:00" tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Last night, as promised, Addy Santo Gave his talk about InfoPath at the . Net Architects users group . I have to say that for a subject which is “not so sexy to begin with” as a colleague of mine said, Addy made for a…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Geek Dinner was juust fine... By Roy Osherove November 29, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published November 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated. Last night, as promised, [Addy Santo](http://weblogs.asp.net/asanto) Gave his talk about InfoPath at the .[Net Architects users group](http://www.microsoft.com/israel/events/default.aspx?pageType=1&idType=1&id=28). I have to say that for a subject which is “not so sexy to begin with” as a colleague of mine said, Addy made for a very interesting lecture, and I can certainly see a future for this thing.  Some cool demos were shown but the most important thing for me was to realize how easy it was to do some of the things that are so “not so easy as pie” to achieve with today’s tools – stuff like posting to a web service, getting data back, showing it and putting data validation on it. Very cool. After that we went to dinner at the El-Gaucho Restaurant in Tel-Aviv. We ended up only four people as lots of people who promised they would be there were a no-show. Too bad – you missed out on some great conversation on the inner workings of Microsoft, architecture, gadgets and technology in general (we also talked about other bloggers as if we were a bunch of old women knitting together – I swear that’s what it felt like..) Anyway, here’s how it looked: [](https://osherove.com/Images/blog/blogdinner1.jpg) Left to right: [Ido Samuleson](http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/blog/principal), [Ido Tandy](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/IdoTandy/), Myself, and [Addy](http://weblogs.asp.net/asanto). **Before the food.** This is how Addy and me looked **after the food**. Yeah, arn’t we two smug, full of themselves fellows? :) ## More in Blogging [All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) - Nov 29, 2004 ### [Making your point, Santo style](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/making-your-point-santo-style.html) - Nov 29, 2004 ### [Israeli Geek Dinner with Johanna Rothman](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/israeli-geek-dinner-with-johanna-rothman.html) - Nov 7, 2004 ### [What blogs are other people reading?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/7/what-blogs-are-other-people-reading.html) - Nov 5, 2004 ### [Israeli .Net bloggers worth a read](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/5/israeli-net-bloggers-worth-a-read.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/