How’s it going? How’s Boston you ask? Not bad, interesting place. Tight streets and a lot of Irish pubs. Plus, if you are not a Red Sox fan you are in the wrong place.
If you want an interesting perspective from other folks check out www.techedbloggers.com. Another interesting thing that I did is put up a TechEd page on caparea.net. This includes the agenda for me thorugh Thursday, as far as technical tracks go. Maybe not to interesting, but it was an excuse to syndicate something!
The key note was last night, instead of this morning. They highlighted “4 Promises” and did a spoof on the fox show “24” called “4”. It was kind of funny. The highlight was “Chloe” from the show was actually there, basically reading through lines and silently cursing her agent.
They highlighted (These are not the promises)
- Forefront – The new name for the collection of edge and client security tools.
- Windows Compute Cluster – Distributing intense computations to other, available servers (think Linux).
- Vista and Office 2007 – This was very cool. There are so many areas that we could use the tools that are coming out of this package.
I wonder if OA would wait on the XP upgrade for Vista? Just the image management alone would make life simpler. I guess we’ll have Vista on the ARC desktop in 2010.
Well, the first “official” day of TechEd is over. With basically 12 hours of straight geek speak, my brain is fried. Registration was easy, which is always a good thing. With 12K people, it can get pretty hairy. Boston is a cool city. I've never been here before, so its kind of refreshing.
I spent my morning in with Kimberly Tripp and Brian Randell. If you do not know who these two are then you must have spent your development life either under a rock or in a cube vaccuum. Kimberly is by far one of the top 3 minds in SQL Server. She has definitely forgotten more than most DBA MVP's have ever known. She was incredibe during this talk. Brian was also his usual rough around the edges cool and smart, but I have to admint that this was really Kim's show. Not for lack of knowledge on Brian's part, just Kim's unwavering passion for everything SQL Server.