Well well it was a very long day, I don’t have internet @ the hotel, so I am updating now

Yesterday I did a session on building a Silverlight info screen, with pagetemplates. It was a session to learn more about Silverlight. Quite nice, good (natural) presentation. Learning a lot here

And as last session I did a breakout on Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, and asked a lot of questions.

I might even say I look a bit more happier to Internet Explorer 8 (believe it or not, they made HUGE improvements).

In the evening we went carting (needed to skip the last session ), but it was cool did a lot of networking

I’ll keep you posted!

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 (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).

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:

After finishing my first session I filled out the form to provide feedback on the presentation.

After submitting I got this page:

WTF I WON SOMETHING?

So I went to the Registration Desk.

And now I have this little price in my pocket:

(I will be posting now under the Tech·Ed 2008 title, makes it easier.)

This first session takes ADO.NET and LINQ to entities under its wings. It’s kind of the more powerful successor of LINQ to SQL.

At 1500 there was a very big keynote on the future of Microsoft, and development. And after that a person spoke about the new Visual Studio 2010.

We also got a sneak preview on Windows 7 (running on an 8 core machine! )

As promised an update (thank god there is internet access here ):

I woke up @ 0445, and a friend of my father’s brought me to Zaventem at 0545. A bit early, but there is always a chance of having problems with the traffic.

I arrived at about 0645, which was good.

We met, and went for breakfast, which was good !

There was no problem with the flight, only a slight delay of ~15 minutes. I slept most of the flight, which was a very good time-killer.

After exiting the airport we took off to the center of Barcelona with the bus, and walked to the hotel.

We put the luggage there, and then took the metro to the CCIB. There we got our badge.

Read on in the next post…