My presentation at TechEd

It does look not very good to blog about my own presentation, but someone has to do it ;). I'm getting used to it ;).

I arrived to the room 10 minutes before the presentation and Richard Turner from the MS Indigo team was talking about WebServices & Versioning. His last slide had the following content:

Database Versioning:

• This is VERY hard to do
• Usually involves a data manipulation and migration process
• Requires EXTENSIVE testing

(and my favorite one)

• Avoid if possible through careful DB design at the outset.

As DeKlarit was built to deal with this problem, I had to ask him permission to show his slide in my presentation ;).

It was a lunch-time session, the ones that are usually made by partners, so I did not expect a lot of people in the room, but there were about 300 hundred people, which was much more than I expected. 

It was a 45' min session. Mike Culver from Microsoft wanted to introduce me, then it was my turn. Everything worked OK, but I finished 7 minutes earlier, so I guess I forgot Richard's advices ;). A lot of people came to talk to me at the end of the session and then in the booth, so I was quite happy with it.

It was my first TechEd presentation, so I really was proud of my blue speaker shirt ;).