Irish Microsoft Technology Conference (IMTC) is over and follow up

Well the IMTC has finished , it was great fun and it was really nice to see so many great presenters presenting on a wide range of great subjects.

I managed to see some of the slots but I was busy preparing for my two sessions.

Overview of Microsoft Live Labs Volta

Well the writing was on the wall as soon as I had finished my 4th perfect run through of slides and demo's. for some reason my laptop refused ( despite a lot of coaxing ) to duplicate the screen and so I ended up coding over my shoulder onto the large cinema screen making a lot of typo's. I think the presentation part of Volta went well but the coding demo's were not great.However the audience were great and very understanding.

I had several post presentation comments , the main one was that I didn't cover Volta and Silverlight and the other integrations , well the reason for that is I wanted to show the importance of the Architectural Refactoring and how it will impact the future of general application development and so I wasn't as focusing on all of the integration pieces of Volta, but fair point.

So I am planning to record a rerun and send it to the IMTC guys and hopefully it will get posted so anybody can watch it :)

Thanks to everybody who came to the session.

Overview of SOA BizTalk and ESB

With no demo's ;) the session seemed to go down quite well. There was a lot to cover in an hour and my views on SOA were not held by all, but again after some post event chats , it was clear that my view was a solid base line to deliver SOA from not the total view. The reason for having a base line view is simply , if you can't achieve the base line , the rest is not worth worrying about.

One topic that did come up during the ESB talk was that of distribution of applications, I will try and find some time to look into this in the near future.

Thanks to everybody who came to the talks and for all of the great feedback

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