Back from Teched
I'm finally back from Orlando, or at least I think I am.. but the weather here in NJ isn't the beautiful 75 degrees it was when I left, it's the 95 degrees that I was hoping to leave in Orlando. Oh well, it's still good to be home.
TechEd was a blast. I flew down on Monday night, and went directly to Glo for the kick-off "Party with Palermo". When that finished up (around 10:30pm), I ran over to Hooters to watch the end of the hockey game, and get some dinner. Well, all of you hockey fans know that I got to see much more than the last few minutes.. the game went into OT, and we hurried back to the house to watch the end of the game. A 20 minute drive later, and we still got to watch 2 periods of playoff hockey.
Tuesday morning was a little rough. Not because we stayed up late to watch hockey, but because we stayed up even later to finish the wings and beer. Luckily, everyone got up on time, and we headed over to the convention center to start our long day. As expected, we went through just about every T-Shirt we brought, on Tuesday night. The Infragistics t-shirts for this show were actually pretty cool, and didn't scream "tradeshow". I forgot to grab one for myself before they were all gone - hopefully we have some left at the office.
Wednesday through Friday is all pretty much a blur. Not because of the alcohol (though I'm sure that played a part), but because I was so busy. I did a Birds of a Feather (BOF) on Wednesday night, and it was pretty cool. It was the first time I attended, let along moderate a BOF, and I'm looking forward to doing more of them. The audience participation was great, and we had some much needed discussion around ASP.NET security. Thanks for everyone who attended.
Saturday finally came, and it was time to head home. But before boarding my flight, I had to take care of one last thing - the teched 'tweener'. Snuggled in the weekend between the two weeks of TechEd, the Florida .NET community got together for a code camp. I did a morning session on Saturday covering LINQ and the LinqDataSource for ASP.NET. The session was surprisingly full for a Saturday morning, and the crowd was eager to participate, which made it easy for us all to have fun (and stay awake).
That's my TechEd wrap up. If you didn't get a chance to stop by the booth and say hi, be sure to catch me next time. And Wally - my apologies for running out on you .. had a plane to catch. We can sync up another time.