Today Lito came from Tech Ed 08′ that was held on Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The stuff shown there was amazing and I had the chance to attend many chat talks and conversations about technology that is something that I personally love.
I haven’t been posting since Wednesday because things went busy on Tech Ed, here is a brief summary of what happened since then till I got home.
Thursday, preparing the demo. I got up early in the morning and head out to OCCC to help Liam and Moe to setup the demo for their breakout session. They showed the Microsoft Sync Toy vNext that we help to build at Southworks. Then after relaxing a little bit and meet some folks around I had a Ask the experts session with Moe where we discussed things like Sync with Services and Devices (including non-windows based). The talk was great and after that we went to have a nap since Thursday night was the Attendee Party at Universal Studios.
Sync Toy in action live from Liam’s and Moe’s (MSFT Sync Framework) presentation.
Friday, the day to say good bye. We went to OCCC in the morning, where people were saying good bye to Tech Ed. I caught up with everybody I saw at Tech Ed to say good bye. After that everything was about shopping, taking Tim and Anthony to the airport and prepare our stuff.
Last picture at the boot. Lito, Tim and me.
Saturday, it never ends until it ends. We were ready to leave to the airport but since we where in Orlando, FL. where the dreams come true, Lito and I went to have a quick trip around the Disney Hollywood Studios theme park and then yes we went to the airport to come back home.
That’s how a shopping session ends, more if Lito is on his spree
Summary
Tech Ed 08′ - North America was a great experience from my personal perspective and I guess with Southworks as a whole we had chance to put out some demos we help to built (syncToy, SQL Data Platform Keynote, and so on). As you can see Lito, Tim and I were the visible faces of a whole team working towards a single objective become better every time and be ready to take the opportunities as they show up.
I’d like to thank too much people, the list is endless but here are the one that I can recall of:
- Ale Jack and Matias, for trusting me and let me be part of this experience and Southworks.
- Eze B and Seba D, whose extremely hard efforts made the Sync Toy an amazing and attractive piece of software to be displayed, I sure we wouldn’t make it for Tech Ed without you help and involvement. You really hit a homer
- Juan Pablo Garcia and Ezequiel Morito (Engineering Excellence), for demonstrating that excellence is easy, and that you can keep it up no matter what. I’m really prod of the work done while I was out and for the most because beside my team you’re my friends :).
- Maxi Déboli, Edgard, Paulo and Leandro, for keeping the quality, for doing the great Keynote demo and staying up late, working hard in behalf of everybody who make Southworks.
- Tim, the one that makes all these things to happens.
- BillG Keynote Demo Team, the list of names would be endless, so to simplify everybody who makes SQL because of the trust and the great moments we had together down in Florida.
And one big special thanks to my travel mate, my friend Lito. 
Lito and me at Downtown Disney.
That’s it, I’ll be posting more and more from now on about what are we doing as Southworks Engineering Excellence and my technology affairs.
thanks,
~johnny
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