Thursday, June 15, 2006

Brian's BizTalk Session

This is going to be mostly for my co-workers and fellow techie's. If you're not in one of these categories and are looking for some stupid jokes, you'll have to come back for a later post.

Brian and Keith did their BizTalk planning session this morning at 8:00. This was kind of a crappy slot since the conference starts earlier and earlier each day, and the audience at 8:00 can be really "iffy." On top of that, Brian was making tweaks to his slide deck as late as Tuesday (as I understand) and there was the fire alarm last night that I already posted about.

Well, without getting into a lot of detail (because I have five minutes to find my next session) it was great! They took a pretty difficult topic to speak about in just over an hour (Enterprise Integration) and gave a great presentation.

And the number reflected it; right now they are carrying an 8.5 out of 9! For a while this morning they had one of the top ten highest scores of ALL the sessions.

5 comments:

Charles said...

Can you post a quick summary of which sessions you are hitting? What stuff is impressing you the most and which stuff seems like unmitigated crap?

James Bender said...

Hey Chuck. Yeah, I've actually been working on that post for a couple days, but for reasons I explain in the post, haven't had a chance to publish it. So far, the coolest things I've seen are Service Factory and WCF (which kind of go hand in hand) and WWF (eh, let 'em sue :) ) They are rebranding WinFX, which I'll post on later as well.

I'm also working on a "Booth Babes" post. ;)

Charles said...

I saw the rebranding of WinFX to .NET framework 3.0 (stupid, stupid idea IMHO).

"Booth Babes" @ Tech Ed - **shudder**

Any kind of buzz there about Gates stepping out in 2008 yet?

Charles said...

BTW, if you see anything good on Winforms/Smartclient can you pick it up for me?

James Bender said...

Yeah. It's been tough getting certing people to bit on .NET 2.0, now with this out there, there is going to be a lot of confusion. I think MS made a lot more work for us as far as evangelising to clients...

Actually, the booth babes were not bad. There is one VERY ATTRACTIVE one that I managed to get a picture with. I'll have to post it later, I can't pull images directly from my phone to Blogspot.

No Gates, no Balmer. No one is even mentioning them. Frankly, I'm a little suprised that one of them didn't at least show up for the keynote...