Doug,
>How do people who went to both DEVCONs rank the presentations?
Miami had several sessions specifically about the details of new VFP7 features, where NOLA had just announcements and brief demos of new features. We also got to see firsthand just how "pre-beta" the whole .NET thing is right now -- plenty of things that just don't work yet. And, of course, we got the VFP7 Technical Preview CD to begin playing with the new features.
NOLA, on the other hand, had great sessions, and offered the opportunity to attend sessions of the other two conferences running simultaneously -- SQL Server and VB/Access.
I'm glad I was able to attend both.