Johnny Halife’s Blog

Fellows, we’re here live from Tech Ed North America - 2008, things have been busy and seems that they will still this way. Let’s do a quick pass over what happened during these two days.

Tuesday.We left our Holiday Inn Room at 5:00 am., since we helped on development of Data Platform Demo (SQL) for BillG’s last keynote we had to be there early. After a bunch of sanity checks of the application we were ready to go.

Demo back-stage Crew. Lito, Zack and me ensuring that everything is in place for the keynote.

Personally, I missed the keynote since Lito and I were behind the scene with Zack controlling the demo and doing all the checks that needed to be done. The demo actually went great, even Bill’s feedback was the demo was he was thankful for doing a demo the highest quality.

 
BillG Keynote SQL Demo Team. Right after the keynote ended.Top: Anthony Carrabino, Dave Campbell (SQL - Tech Fellow), Moe Khosravy and Tim. Bottom: me , Lito and  Zack Owens.

Once the demo was completed and the keynote closed we went to hang around Tech Ed, I had chance to take a couple of pictures with the products mascots.

Johnny & the Microsoft Mascots.

After lunch, I took my booth duties [Did I mentioned that I'm at the Sync Framework booth on the Green DAT area?] I had time to answer some questions and setup the demos on the booth. Finally after the booth duties we went to have a nap and then hang out around Orlando.

During booth duties. It’s me giving a presentation about Microsoft Sync Framework over the SQL Server & Sync Framework booth.

After keynote dinner. Moe, Lito and me after the keynote dinner.

If you missed the keynote, you can see it online from http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/. BTW, Zack has a great post explaining the architectural side from the Trey Research Demo we did for the keynote.

Wednesday. Today was all about the booth during the work hours, I was around Tech Ed a little bit too, but mostly all my time was at booth duties demonstrating the Microsoft Sync Framework - Sync Toy, that was actually fun. After duties I went to BOF (Birds of the Feather) sessions were I attend to DLR and Dynamic Languages and later an interesting discussion about Code Quality and Standards. It was really fun, and some interesting conversations show up during the BOF Talks (Also there were some beers to make a relaxed discussion).

Booth duties day 2. Lito and me during showing the Sync Toy.

Tomorrow (Thursday). Tomorrow I’ll be around Tech Ed, during the morning and at 5:00 pm. I’ll be helping Moe Khosravy on the Ask The Expert session for Microsoft Sync Framework. I hope, you can make it, come and clarify all your doubts. Also Liam will be holding a session at 1:00 pm introducing Microsoft Sync Framework.

My profile. This is what shows up on the DAT Area introducing the Microsoft SQL Server speakers. I was really shocked when I first saw it.

That’s all the news live from Tech Ed North America - 2008 , Orlando, Florida.

thanks,
~johnny