It seems that the server on which this blog is hosted was experiencing problems over the weekend, so I’m sorry that my recap was not posted sooner. Ending the week with a fun night at Universal Orlando was perfect – the Hitachi Consulting crew met up (along with my good friend Arash) and partied like...

It's by no coincidence that my posts are getting shorter as the week progresses here at TechEd . Today was another great day. I attended few really good sessions covering Globalization and CLR Internals – very compelling stuff. I’m now off to the attendee party at Universal Studios. Should be fun – that...

Today was another great day in Orlando . I met an old friend for lunch, saw even more compelling reasons to use BizTalk, and learned how to partition data in SQL Server 2005 (thanks to Ryan Clay, also from Hitachi Consulting.) A big “thank you” to Yumay Chang from hosting a wonderful dinner for the CSI...

Today was a long day! Steve Ballmer gave an energetic (to say the least) introduction to TechEd . As with most conferences I’ve been to, the keynote featured a gimmicky stab at The Techie Show, a spoof of The Daily Show. However, this spoof featured Samantha Bee, an actual correspondent from The Daily...

After checking in at the Staff booth and scoping out the CSI Track Cabana (where Pete and I will be most of the week,) I figured I’d better stop off and blog something. The facilities at the Orange County Convention Center are very nice, and as always, Microsoft knows how to feed the geeks (I pilfered...

My friend Pete and I arrived in Orlando yesterday afternoon for Microsoft TechEd 2005, and the first thing that I can say is "bravo" to those folks who live here and can deal with the humidity! Thanks to Pete's mad skillz, I got a nice upgrade to First on the flight hear, and found myself drooling on...

It seems that the server on which this blog is hosted was experiencing problems over the weekend, so I’m sorry that my recap was not posted sooner. Ending the week with a fun night at Universal Orlando was perfect – the Hitachi Consulting crew met up (along with my good friend Arash) and partied like...

It's by no coincidence that my posts are getting shorter as the week progresses here at TechEd . Today was another great day. I attended few really good sessions covering Globalization and CLR Internals – very compelling stuff. I’m now off to the attendee party at Universal Studios. Should be fun – that...

Today was another great day in Orlando . I met an old friend for lunch, saw even more compelling reasons to use BizTalk, and learned how to partition data in SQL Server 2005 (thanks to Ryan Clay, also from Hitachi Consulting.) A big “thank you” to Yumay Chang from hosting a wonderful dinner for the CSI...

Today was a long day! Steve Ballmer gave an energetic (to say the least) introduction to TechEd . As with most conferences I’ve been to, the keynote featured a gimmicky stab at The Techie Show, a spoof of The Daily Show. However, this spoof featured Samantha Bee, an actual correspondent from The Daily...