BM-Bloggers

Another successful event, though many of our attendees thought EPM was a step to take in the future, rather than now. The interest in Sharepoint was resounding.

Linda

The 40th Anniversary James Bond Exhibition is now in Arizona, with new terminals and updated software.

Linda

What can I add?  Our response scores for the .NET Curriculum Workshop came in.  An excellent response.

Robert

Thought I’d let someone else comment …

Today, Microsoft recognizes Black Marble as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology. – Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp.

Linda

Another successful day, including the Visual Studion 2005 demo, which I think sealed the views on .NET.

Robert

Sessions went very well today, however the audience would have preferred all the C# material together – we spread it out over mobile apps etc.

Robert

Black Marble are presenting on behalf of Microsoft at the .NET Curriculum Workshop tomorrow.  We will be teaching Academics about .NET, and fortunately the material is now finished!

Robert

The Final Day at TechED

it’s the final day at TechED, TechED has been great. Unfortunately I have spent most of my time in hall 8 which has poor wireless coverage.

Highlights (so far)

Tuesday

This year’s bag is a bizarre orange courier bag!

Express,Express,Express the whole of the visual studio product range now have an entry edition and they look very jolly.

Team Services, is Microsoft’s enterprise sized developer productivity tool, needless to say it will be trialed at Black Marble as soon as is possible.

 SOA is the current buzz word of choice; Don Box predicted that Business Agents will be the next. Don also took time to refute Joel (Joel on Software) ….

Wednesday

Rafal Lukawiecki presented a very good overview of the direction of MSF followed by Prashant Sridharan on Team system where he covered a few points on MSF schema’s which are implemented in Team Services

Thursday

For my own development I went to see Rafal present a 400 session on Cryptography which covered off a good analysis w.r.t the algorithms and implementation, I already have a strong background in cryptography but it was very interesting to hear another persons view including rollout and usage issues.

The best session of the day was by Clemens Vasters on state machines in multilayered .NET applications, which led on to many discussions for the rest of the night.

The only downside to the day was a poor party, 6000 Techies in a small (for the number of people) and very hot room.

However the best session I have attended was on 8th Layer Security by Steve Riley.

Robert

I have just been to a session by Gert Drapers – Understanding and Optimising ADO.NET. I think of all the sessions I have been to at this year’s TechEd, thus far, that this one will have most direct effect on the code I write.

If you use ADO.NET to access you SQL Server check out the session slides. The performance gains that are possibility available to you are significant, but I must dash to check my SQL query parameterization!

 

Robert and Richard are currently soaking up the sights and sounds of TechEd Europe in Amsterdam.  Look out for their posts throughout the week.