At the last DevCon in 2003, blogging was rampant. We had about 100 posts in the lead up to the conference and during the conference itself.

A this year’s DSL DevCon, there’s a ton of buzz, but almost none of it is in the blogosphere. Instead, it’s all in Twitter.Last I checked, it was more than 150 tweets and we’re still on the first talk of the 2nd day (and day #1 was only a half day).

The worm has turned.

This year’s VSLive in Las Vegas (June 8-11), has three, count ’em three, “Oslo” talks! (And a Dublin talk to boot.) Just a few months ago, the “Oslo” team was giving all the talks and now there are so many of them I have to hear about them on the street! Our baby grew up so fast…

And as if that weren’t enough, Jon Flanders gave me a code for a discount:

“If you register with code S9V10 you can get and all-access Passport Package for just $1,295, a savings of $400.00 off the standard price of $1,695.”

I know I loved MIX in Vegas last month and I’m jealous I don’t get to go back in June. Put some money down on 22 for me!

This is a wonderful article on the use of an "M" grammar to parse a set of rules specific to credit card validation and then parse those rules at run-time to drive a framework for doing the validation itself. The article does a marvelous job of motivating the use of a custom DSL for construction and validation by non-engineers and then lays out the entire grammar and C# loader code. Recommended.

Kris Horrocks in our marketing team is using Oslo to run his house via X10. He's got two posts on it and it's damn cool! Hmmm... How much to get X10 at my house...

This year’s DevCon for DSLs has 25% more attendees than any other previous DevCon. In this economy, I’m amazed by this.

And it’s not just people from the US or even the Pacific Northwest. Not only do we have people from all over the country, but folks are coming from Canada, the UK, Scotland, France, South America and one attendee, Tomas Petricek, a student at Charles University, is coming from the Czech Republic.

Luckily, as we slide into home, there are still a scant few seats left if you’d like to register, but be quick before they’re all gone!

I so miss this conference. Why don’t I do this more often?!

The nice folks over at InfoQ have been building up some Oslo content and reporting on Oslo news. Check it out!

Learn how Web developers can use “M”, a new language for describing data, metadata and domain specific languages, to enhance RESTful services like HTTP, JSON, RSS/Atom, and more. Also see how "M" can be used on premise or in the cloud to achieve greater development productivity and to create more compelling customer experiences. Speakers: Douglas Purdy & Chris Sells

Doug Purdy and Chris Sells will be giving their Mix ’09 talk on Friday, March 20th at 9am in San Polo 3501. Doug will be talking about RESTful services and clients using "M", the language of "Oslo". Chris will be typing furiously trying to keep up. Come one, come all! Plus, free hugs from Doug to anyone that mentions this post!