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My Pizza Question - Tech-Ed Israel

Avi Wortzel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:00:13 GMT

As you probably know Microsoft Israel gave each of the Tech-Ed bloggers an option to ask a question about Tech-Ed Israel, and the price for answering the right answer is a Pizza from Pizza Hut Israel.

So, my question is:

Name at list two speakers who used musical instrument during their lectures, and which instruments they used?

Tech-Ed Eilat – My favorite lectures

Avi Wortzel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:41:00 GMT

More than a half of Tech-Ed convention is over, and I would like to share with you some of my favorite lectures.

The first lecture was about “SOAP/WS-* and REST: Complementary Communication Styles” by David Chappell. At the beginning of the lecture, David told us that in the past he really didn’t understand the necessity of REST in the new SOAP/WS-* world, furthermore, he didn’t understand how REST creates an entire community around it. After a while, he started to understand the glory around the REST concept. In this lecture David share his thoughts and his conclusions about the different between these two approaches. In addition, he shows us when we should prefer REST against SOAP/WS-*. It was very interesting lecture with a great lecturer.

Photo: Shani Raba

The second lecture was about “Consuming and Creating RESTful Web Services with .NET” by Ron Jacobs. It was a continue lecture for David lecture. Ron wasn’t a WCF/SOAP/WS-*/REST man in his origin, but he really got deep into it. If David lecture was about the theory, Ron’s lecture was about the how to implement it. Ron showed us how to make it work. During the presentation he showed how to take a new service which configured as regular SOAP WCF service, and to translate it to WCF service that support REST style. He told us about real problems which he dealt with in his first try to create a WCF with REST approach. Ron suggested some good ideas to solve them and also mentioned that a lot of it is not documented.

My picture with Ron Jacobs (From the right) Photo: Shani Raba

In the next post I’ll talk about some more good lectures that I really enjoyed them.

Tech-Ed Eilat (Israel) – You just need to be there…

Avi Wortzel — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:57:00 GMT

Everything started tow months ago when I asked my boss to get a ticket to Tech-Ed Israel In the begging of April. Tech-Ed is one of the most interesting conferences for technical people. The fact that this conference takes place in my country (Israel) makes it even better, just a half an hour of flight. It's really good opportunity to learn about the next MS generation, to meet the most interesting and powerful people from MS corporation and to talk with other programmer from my same community. Last week I got an email from Michal (Digital Marketing Group in MS Israel), in which she announced me that I won a free ticket to the next Tech-Ed Eilat (Flight & Hotel included). I probably would have got a ticket from my company, but it's really cool to won one myself.

So, I really hope to see you in the incoming Tech-Ed, and Thanks a lot to Microsoft Israel for this gimmick.