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 could actually watch paint dry'? Oh... the paint fumes are starting to …

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 the TechEd conference. Should have been here by noon on Sunday and …

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 in the same conference center Bill Gates and Bill Clinton are …

The conference has been great , even though there has been some amazing announcements people don't seem to have grasped the gravity of what has happened. I suspect that it is a mixture of lack of comprehension and "it pie in the sky" , but it looks like OLSO will be coming hard and fast and you will see a lot …

Mike Ormand is super exited to be coming to Leeds and Bradford on our next event day (22nd of November). Mike is a great speaker and if SQL is your thing come along. if SQL isn't your thing we also have Sessions on Windows Server 2008 and in the evening we are running a community event where we will be Mix 07 in the …

Probably one of the best session so far with Clemens Vasters and Steve Swartz on Software + Services in the Cloud. I think it is really important that speakers relate both to the audience and between themselves and Vasters and Swartz do it in spades. if you ever get the chance I recommend hearing these knowledgeable …

When at Mix07 I posted about Robby Ingebretsen's excellent session on the relationship between developers and designers in the WPF/Silverlight world. Channel9 has just posted an interview with him on the same subject, well worth looking at if this is the type of project you are involved in.

There is more to Seattle than the Space Needle and flying fish at Pike Place Market. At the end of the SOA conference today I persuaded Robert to embark on a tourist adventure, to brave the Seattle traffic and go to Archie McPhee "Outfitters of Popular Culture" . It should have been a 20 minute drive... hour …

As with all conferences you tend to flag part way through, you start to think of the flight home and not having to sit in yet another session (no matter how interesting it sound on paper). It starts to seem all sessions are either in a cold draft or tropical atmosphere. At this point I have to say I am not looking …

Found an excellent article that introduces various need to know concepts: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/claessens/custompp.mspx