It was a blast. For me TechEd Australia tends to be the Geek holiday I get every year. This year though, it was very special on many levels. With the biggest mini notebook handout TechEd proved to give everyone something to remember. Something about it’s size compared to my XPS made me feel sorry for the mini though :)
My Participation
This year witnessed my biggest participation so far in TechEd. With a Tech Talk with Paul Glavich and a WPF Composite Framework breakout session and two Bird of Feathers sessions I couldn’t possibly be any happier.
Tech Talk: Enterprise Software
The master of disaster, fellow Architect Paul Glavich took the time to interview me and it was fun talking Enterprise Applications with the man who knows it all. Check out the video here.
Breakout Session: WPF Composite Framework
For a while now I have been using the Composite Framework to architect and build rich client applications and a shout out goes to Paul Stovell who showed me this for the first time. I took the audience on a trip around the concepts and implementations of the Composite Framework. While the feedback was a bit mixed I think for a wide topic the audience managed to see the benefit of the Composite framework in building modular interfaces. All the code can be downloaded here.
BOF Sessions : PostSharp & LightSpeed
I also got to do a couple of short sessions on PostSharp (http://www.postsharp.org/) and LightSpeed (http://www.mindscape.co.nz/products/lightspeed/ ). Again a big shout out goes out to the guys from Mindscape for providing free licences to give away during the session. You can download the code for the PostSharp Session here.
Conclusion
Finally, TechEd wouldn't have been such a hit without the efforts of all the Microsoft veterans but I feel a special thank you should go out to Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi who made this event the greatest event of the year.
and as usual not to be forgotten the boys from Readify and their ever entertaining company
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