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Tech-Ed experience, day 3 part 2

Ido Flatow — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:14:54 GMT

Since I named the last post part 1, it’s only logical there would be a part 2, but unfortunately I didn’t have much time to go to other lectures, since I was occupied with going over the 1000 pictures I took at the part the day before.

So instead of showing you what happened to me on Tuesday, let’s see what went on in the party on Monday.

The Crowd

The Show

Colleagues from Sela (try to identify who’s who in the second photo)

That’s it for Tech-Ed 2010. I enjoyed it very much, both the lectures and the overall atmosphere. I’m looking forward to Tech-Ed 2012.

Tech-Ed experience, day 3 part 1

Ido Flatow — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:38:26 GMT

This morning I got up as usual, a bit hangover from yesterday (didn’t drink much, but forgot to drink water to compensate).

I went to the lecture Viki and Daniel gave about BizTalk & AppFabric and how the two tools integrate together.

They started to talk about BizTalk and the new features of BizTalk 2010, including the mapping enhancements and the new improved connectors to enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle.

Then they moved to talk about AppFabric in IIS 7.5 and how it can be used to monitor WCF and WF services and also gave some words about the additional AppFabric Cache (2 sentences, not something special).

And then they moved on to talk about how to connect the two technologies together and gave sample scenarios for each technology.

I’ve known Viki and Daniel for over 10 years, since our days in the army, and I enjoyed the lecture, although I wanted to see more about Windows Azure AppFabric, but I guess they didn’t have enough time to show everything.

Just a note to Viki, Daniel, and some other lecturers I noticed making the same mistake – Summary is written with an “a”, not with an “e” (summery comes from summer – you know, hot and sticky, mostly in Eilat).

After the lecture I went to get a cup of coffee in Aroma, and now I’m in the Sela’s suite, waiting to talk to people about WCF and other technologies I specialize in. So if you have questions and you have the Sela VIP card, come to the suite on the 16th floor in the Royal Beach hotel.

See ya later.

Tech-Ed experience, day 2 part 2

Ido Flatow — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:28:37 GMT

After lunch, I went to the Patterns of Parallel Programming with .NET 4 lecture by Stephen Toub. Stephen begun showing how we can do parallel programming with the ThreadPool and moved from there to show how we can convert the code the the new Parallel library.

(Stephen, of course)

(ThreadPool stuff we all know and love)

(Parallel stuff we’ll all learn to love)

Unfortunately for me, I had to leave the session early since I had to join the other consultants of Sela to go meet Jason Zander, but I’ll try to catch up on the session on the TechEd website’s recordings since I’m teaching these stuff now, and I wanted to make sure I’m not missing any hidden gems in the framework.

The meeting with Jason was very nice, we had the opportunity to ask him questions we had about Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight, and other technologies we are working on. Jason was cooperative and answered as much as he could. I myself was reassured about the future of WCF and Silverlight regarding stuff like WS-* support in SL (if you want to know more – send me an email).

Now I’m at the Suite, talking business with people, and later on I’ll go to the party to relax a bit.

See you on Tuesday…