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Halfway through the 2006 TechED for Developers
Well, here we are at the third day of a week full of technobabble and mostly nerdish guys trying to gain some attention from all those Microsoft gurus. The day started with a presentation on the class object model of Sharepoint Portal 2007 and Windows Sharepoint Services 2007 and w...
TechED Idols Contest Wave 2
During Wednesday's lunch, the second round of the 2006 TechED Idols Contest completed with another wave of three speakers. The first one, an Italian student (part of the 2006 Imagine Cup winner team), showed a very nice demo of a Windows Sidebar Gadget hooked up to a Bluetooth heartrate mon...
Day two of the TechED 2006 for Developers
Because the first day of the 2006 TechED for Developers in Barcelona was actually a pre-conference day, the second day started with the traditional keynote. I thought that the first speaker (don’t recall his name), was a bit uninspiring for the 3800 developers. But they called a little eleven yea...
TechEd Idols Contest Wave 1
At 19:00 I went to see the first wave of the Idols Contest in the Exhibition Lounge. Wow, competition is huge this first year. The first speaker, a UK guy, give an extremely smooth presentation like he was an oiled machine. Noted, he took too much time, has a very annoying voice and he would fit ...
Ordina Software Factory at the TechED 2006
Tom Hollander, Product Manager for Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team, was at the TechED to share their future plans on software factories. Since we have been using the Domain Specific Language tools for almost a year now, Tom asked us to provide a 15 minute demonstration of our SMART-Micr...
A day of ASP.NET AJAX (TechEd Day 1)
On Monday, I've been attending the pre-conference session on ASP.NET AJAX (formerly referred to as ATLAS) brought to us by Wintellect's Jeff Prosise. From what I read before, I thought it was merely some kind of SDK which primary purpose is to allow page updates without a full post-back and heavi...