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When you think it cannot get worse...
10 November 07 11:35 AM | Richard | with no comments
... you end up presenting at TechEd. Yesterday was fun (of a sort) I ended up doing the demo section of the ESB Guidance session at TechEd. This session was scheduled to be done by Robert Hogg (Black Marble) and Ewan Fairweather (Microsoft) but Ewan had...
TechEd Barcelona - update
07 November 07 10:04 AM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
I have not been blogging much from here have I, it is not that the sessions are not that interesting, but no single item has been giving me an huge urge to write. As I said in my last post I think this is a conference of best practice ideas and as such...
No sizzle and not much sausage
05 November 07 02:59 PM | Richard | with no comments
The keynote at TechEd was as expected, we all knew about the impending release of VS2008, and still no fixed date yet (so no sausage there) and not really anything announced product wise that was not already in the blog sphere (so no real sizzle). I think...
How to create a community
05 November 07 01:00 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
Just come out of an interesting set of round table events for 'community influencers' at TechEd. These are people who are active in both the online and face-to-face communities from all round Europe (and Australia - the reach of TechEd Europe...
Waiting to watch paint start to dry
05 November 07 12:45 PM | Richard | with no comments
I am now sitting in the keynote waiting for the session to start - they have graffiti artists on the stage - I wonder if it is a homarge to that great Palm Pilot handwriting text entry language ? Or is my my chance to say that that 'this keynote I...
If it is Monday it must be Barcelona
05 November 07 09:09 AM | Richard | with no comments
What an awful journey I have had since my last post, the trip back from the USA was fine; the problems started getting from the UK to Spain. Basically fog at Liverpool stopped all flights so we had to change airline and airport to get here in time for...
Last day at SOA - day 4
02 November 07 10:10 PM | Richard | with no comments
Seems quiet here today at the SOA conference, less people about. I wonder how many have sneaked off early for flights? It does seem to be mostly Europeans left, judging by the languages I have heard. This does not mean parking was easy this morning, as...