Greatday last Friday at the MSDN day event. The speakers were good, showing their skills on ASP.Net 2.0 (and not too much slides :-).
I also welcome the idea to include an Irish speaker, to give a more local picture of our development 'little' world.
This time Marcus McInnes delivered a clear demonstration on the dangers of SQL injection and cross scripting.
If I agree fully with Marcus on all the presentation, I admit the most difficult thing to achieve is to have the database not running in admin mode. Don't flame me! But my experience with another login than 'sa' are almost all the time very painful. Maybe this will be solved with SQL 2005.
I currently have a password associated with the sa login, and I change it regularly. It's not perfect, but it's good enough when you work in a very SNDIO (Small Number of Developers in Office :-))
Anyway if you want to go further on the SQL security and performances subject, I recommend tpo read this excellent (free) ebook, The Best of SQLServerCentral.com Vol. 1.
Not really new (2 years old) but the content is still valid.