Another Webcast Series --- what would *you* like to hear?

Okay, if anyone is listening out there... (and if so, thanks!) Anyway, as some of you may know, I host a webcast series for MSDN on what I call "Modern Software Development in .NET", where I try to help bring people up to speed on how things have evolved over the last 5-10 years: OOP, OOD with interfaces & inheritance, exceptions, VM-based execution, multi-tier design, distributed programming, web services, etc. Let's face it, some folks have been programming in a procedural way all their life (and with great success), and have never had a chance (or the need) to jump on the OOP bandwagon. But the train is leaving the station, and with Java and .NET here to stay, you can't use these environment effectively unless you work your way to the front of the train.

I'm excited that Microsoft is giving me a chance to run another webcast series this coming Fall, probably to start in late August and run through December. What I plan to do is a follow-on series to what we've been doing, integrating architecture-level topics with deeper explanations of what's coming in .NET 2.0 and VS 2005. As much as possible I want to be language-neutral, though a few webcasts will no doubt end up being devoted to language-specific issues.

So here's where you come in --- if you could learn more about 3 topics, what would those topics be? Here's another way to think about it: if you are working in a team, what topics do you feel your team members need to know more about? Or in general, what topics do we as trainers need to do a better job of discussing?

FYI, look for other webcast series to start this Fall, e.g. on ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, with exceptional instructors driving them...