Well, it certainly looks like our European colleagues are seeing growing interest towards XP. Both XP Day Benelux and XP Day London have been SOLD OUT.

If you'd like to go next year, better make the reservations now ;-)

For some reason, I had the image of a vast majority of .NET developers not being too much into object-relational mapping. You know, the old "build the whole application as stored procedures" type of stigma. Well, it seems that I might have been wrong about it -- at least if you look at the number of .NET ORM products/projects...