Sunday, June 05, 2005 - Posts

TechEd the Videos

Podcast: TechEd 2005 - First three videos are up...

What a long day, Iit’s now 8:40pm in Seattle, 11:40pm in Orlando/Florida, I’ve been travelling since 6:30am this morning… Florida is just like Seattle, wet, thunderstorms (but somewhat warmer, it’s about 80F outside right now). Keynote setup and rehersals start at 8am tomorrow morning (5am Seattle time!!!).

The TechEd 2005 Podcast feed is live, and we already have three videos queued up (or lined up) for you to take a look at.

Hopefully tomorrow we can capture some views from around setup of TechEd 2005, this includes the MONSTER hands on lab room that looks like it has around 1,000 PC’s in it – a look behind the keynote rehersals, and a tour of the event.

TechEd kicks of on Monday (with the Steve Ballmer keynote) – there are a TON of interesting people here to interview, including Don Box, Anders Hejlsberg, a number of Vice Presidents from Microsoft, and more interesting sessions than you can shake a stick at… Look out for demo’s, interviews, tours, behind the scenes, pod-attacks, and tons of other interesting videos.

– Mike....Where are you Mike? There is going to be over 11,000 humans here tomorrow!

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posted Sunday, June 05, 2005 11:45 AM by paul with 3 Comments

TechEd expectations

Orlando is nothing but rain, thankfully the convention center has a good roof. Soon the place will be filled to the brim with Techies and I'm really looking forward to the interaction.

Realistic Conference Expectations

By Chris Sells

  • Networking opportunities (hard for geeks; often works via friend-of-a-friend in bars and restaurants, but only if you have at least one friend and s/he has at least two)
  • "Info triggers," i.e. if you attend a 90 minute talk on MSMQ and you're having or are about to have a problem that MSMQ solves well, the talk should a) let you know that MSMQ provides a good solution and b) where to go for more info
  • Entertainment (and that's only the good conferences)

      In general, every talk should be structured like so:

      • Name the thing
      • What's the thing good for
      • A demo of the major use(s) of the thing
      • Here's where to go for more info
      • Any questions?
      • Please remember to tip your waitress

      That's why I really love the idea of groktalks. If you attend 3 groktalks instead of 1 regular talk, the chances of you finding an info trigger are 3x, while still keeping your networking and entertainment chances even.

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      • posted Sunday, June 05, 2005 2:42 AM by paul with 1 Comments