I'll be speaking at BarCamp Hyderabad 2 so if you have some free time tommorow and if you're in and around Hyderabad, do drop in at the Microsoft campus.

I'll be talking on mobile development for 'Web 2.0' and showing off Visual Studio in the process. This is mostly a rehash of my MEDC talk but I'm in panic mode right now as my laptop is throwing tantrums and just plain refusing to run any of my demos.

For those of you who can't make it tommorow and can't wait for me to post the slides, here's the main takeaways

• Send less across the wire (or wireless)
• Don't be chatty - be chunky
• If you don't have control over the web API that you're calling, stick a server in the middle and make your mobile device talk to this server instead

On a personal note, I'm looking forward to finally meeting Atul Chitnis in person. He's someone whom I've had multiple umm... friendly email conversations with :-)