Never seen so many grey haired developers in one hotel   ;)

On a serious note - Some terrific speakers and I was impressed by the general knowledge of all the presenters. I can honestly say I never got bored for one moment and good presentation style kept my attention for all 4 days. Joe Pluta in particular is an amusing guy with some strong opinions, and very funny to listen to.

It's nice to listen to i-people who are as obviously enthusiastic about the i as i am... see what I did there?

I've been predominantly working on IBMi for just over a year now (after a 4 year hiatus playing with other stuff - but thats a whole other story) and am amazed by the generally apathetic nature of many developers in the i-community: The ones that still call it an AS400 and write in RPG3... dont get me started...

After iSeries DevCon - my brain is awash with new RPG, PHP and ZEND-alicious ideas...

Track wise, I focused on RPG, PHP and Web-Server based stuff purely because it was a combination of the things the was interested in and also sharpening the blunter tools in my toolbox.

Notable speakers:
Jon Paris - great presenter who had an answer for every question I threw at him. He really kicked PHP into focus for me... So much so, This weekend I scrapped a website and am currently re-tooling with PHP...

Susan Gantner - gave a brilliant polish to my RPG and SQL coding styles. opening my eyes to some new techniques and made me slap myself for doing a few things in a lazy way.

Joe Pluta - was great on his discussions covering Java and IDE's like Eclipse and RDi. Being a green screen dinosaur this has really galvanized me into action.

Other speakers were great but these 3 stick in my mind... no offense to any others.. grovel grovel

Staying at the RIO with it's in-casino curry house, scantily clad waitresses and winning a few $hundred on the last night didnt hurt either

double-thumbs-up and a virtual glass-of-wine for all involved.