Today was the first official day of Tech Ed. We were on the bus at 7:30 AM (Eastern), ready to head over and get some breakfast with the other 10,000 attendees. Surprisingly, the lines were manageable thanks to a large staff, large amounts of food and a huge amount of planning.
The keynote was directly after lunch, which opened with a ~10 minute intro spoofing back to the future and poking some good natured fun at microsoft. The production values were surprisingly good, and Christopher Lloyd actually drove up in a delorian replica on stage with the keynote speaker. It was pretty darn sweet. Here I am describing it... and I've got a video to post.
Later in the day we attended a session giving an intro to Visual Studio 2008, another session for "painlessly" upgrading from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to 2005 (wrong choice for us developers), and a final hands-on lab letting us build an ASP .NET 2.0 page from scratch.
The only noticeable problems so far have come up with trying to find a restroom without a line and the software glitch in our first session that almost made it a waste of time. Other than those, I really can't complain (except for being away from Katie for so long). I'm having a good time, learning new things, seeing the Orlando sites (last night, and again tonight I suppose)...
I'm going to spend some time on the computer until one of our programmer's gets back from a run, then we're going to meet up with one of our company's IT guys for dinner tonight. After dinner, walmart. After walmart... Jam Session at Universal's Groove.
Posted by Jordan at June 4, 2007 4:13 PM | TrackBack