Well it was good to get back to going to the London DotNet User Group. And I picked a really good meeting to go to. Dino Esposito gave a really cool talk on Partial Rendering on Ajax. Apart from giving the best introduction to Ajax I've heard, he introduced me to this rather nice technique that leverages some of the Ajax bits and pieces such as the script manager and by hosting your ASP controls in UpdatePanels. By using these techniques you can produce some rather cool Ajax like results.

More on this can be found here

I'm going to enjoy impressing Rob with this stuff in the morning.