Tech·Ed 2008: Day 2: First session

Well, I wrote a bit about this day on the previous post, so I wont rewrite that part. (Call me lazy, I call it effectiveness).

Just got back from a session on how IT will change. And it was awsome, lot of stuff to think about, about IBM, with their sacred cow (the mainframe), and how it got replaced by normal computers.

IBM’s model was that the pcs should interact with the mainframe, with transactions and stuff like that. But that’s not true anymore. We all have our own SQL Server Express / Compact, and stuff like that on our own computer.

So if you have a sacred cow: build something to replace that, because if you don’t, someone else will!

A little impression on how good the wireless network over here is:

No problems at all :P (it’s like that all day long)

I kind off miss a few of my good classmates who surely would be on their place over here (I don’t know if I translated that right).

Tech·Ed 2008: First night

Was hot like hell. We took a two hour walk, got approached by 2 hookers (no joke), and drank (with 5 man) 2 bottles of cava.

Result: at 0810 I woke up (no hangover (fortunatly)), missed the first session (no big deal, I already saw the introduction for Silverlight 2).

In a moment I am going to follow the session ‘How IT will change the next 10 years and why you should care’. There is also another option ‘LINQ deep dive with Visual Basic’, but I really don’t like that language so that is out of the question.

In the evening we will go karting with all MSPs (Microsoft Student partners). Great!

A little impression of me: