Morning

Woke up at 7am, watched a bit of sunrise, and then checked my schedule thinking today would start at 9am. Alas the keynote was slated for 8:15 so I had to hurry.

Got to the keynote on time, and unlike previous years there was no wellknown speakers. A couple of Microsoft presenters gave a few hints about Windows 7, and some touch features.

Attended a hands on lab looking at the MVC design paradigm in ASP applications.

Followed this up with a look at the pending release of Enterprise Library 5.0.

This took us to lunch,


After lunch purchased 4 Microsoft titles from the MSPress stand, a little bit of light reading for when i finish study this year.

Day 2

Well today started at 9am.

Didn't go to the gym this morning. Probably should have but slept in instead.

More of the same today, looking at how WF and WCF will be implemented in Dublin and .net 4.0, and what this will mean to administration of applications from a management perspective. There is a lot of good stuff coming, with beta 2 due out in October.

The real prize of having .net 4 available to implement in production is probably slated for early 2010.

I returned the netbook at lunchtime. There isn't much point carrying around extra weight, when I have a perfectly serviceable laptop, that i get to take home.

The only that I will miss out on is the beta version of Office 2010.

The training finished about 5pm, went home freshened up and returned for the opening of the conference at 6pm.

The GFC must have had an effect on sponsorship as the exhibition area is seemingly much smaller than previous years.

Jamie Wincup (excuse the spelling if I got that wrong) and one of his fellow V8 supercar drivers was here competing in the upcoming XBOX 360 forza game.

Left the exhibition at 8pm and went home.

Freshwater Point Apartment

Wow, what more can i say about how good the accommodation is. I would recommend this place to anybody and everybody.

As you can see by the photo below I am turning into Evan (Well maybe that goes a bit far, but the picture gives you the idea.

Got up at 7am and went to the gym this morning. Wore myself out a little, but thankful that I went.

Registration

As per previous, went to the gym and felt pretty good.

Went to registration at 9am.

Conference contents included the backpack/satchel and the loan HP mini.

 

As you can see by the comparison shot, a wee bit smaller than my Dell XPS M1330

Setup the mini for about 30 minutes, and then looked at the contents of the satchel.

The satchels are getting progressively smaller and less usable. Still much prefer the TechEd2007 backpack.

Coffee supplied by Avanade is very nice, and the accompanying toblerone was very good.

Day 1

So on to the training for the day: Microsoft “Dublin” & .net services

Today has been hard yakka.

 

The manual is seemingly about a ream of A4 paper thick. And not very environmentally friendly, as it is a single page per sheet.

 

Discussion of WF & WCF 4.0, how it differs to 3.0 and 3.51.

 

The ease at which workflows can be created looks very good and should greatly enhance our abilities to provide services to the end user.

 

The fact that we are viewing this on a beta 1 version leads to some instability issues , but you have to use what's available.

 

Today's session finished at 7pm and so walked over to Maccas at Broadbeach. Had the new Angus burger. Surprisingly good. Had to stay for about 30 mins because of the thunderstorm that hit just as I got there.

Microsoft Tech.ED 2009 Website

http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public/default.aspx