I saw him myself and I have his book too. Programming SQL Server 2005.

>I saw him two times as a presenter in our user group. He's really good.
>
>>Stephen Forte will be speaking at the SQL Server User Group on Thursday at 6pm. You
>>must register to attend: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134822
>>
>>Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA
>>building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor
>>
>>Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
>>1 to 50th St./Bway
>>N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
>>
>>Session Info:
>>Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume
>>data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss ADO .NET
>>Data Services or "Project Astoria" and see how we can REST enable your
>>data. Then you will learn how to leverage existing skills related to
>>LINQ and data access to customize the behavior, control-flow, security
>>model and experience of your data service. We will then see how to
>>enable data-binding to traditional ASP.NET controls as well as
>>Silverlight Then switching gears we will look quickly at consuming of
>>REST services from any platform (including Ruby on Rails) using Visual
>>Studio and the WCF REST Starter kit. We will conclude with a
>>discussion on developing offline applications with the ability to sync
>>back to the online data service. This is a very demo intensive session.