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Back for the final day at TechEd and I’m in good spirits – it has been a good event. Web futures (Mixed panel) Sorry folks, this was just too disorganised and ill-informed opinion for me. Seemed as though the panel hadn’t been prepped on any of the questions, and there wasn’t any overview or structure for where the discussion was headed. I left pretty quickly. FAIL.   T-SQL Tips and...

It was great to start the day catching up with a few people I hadn’t seen in a while (Castro powering on with SQL, and best of luck to Luis for your wedding in a few weeks). Then, onto a few sessions… Windows PowerShell and WMI (Mitch Denny) Mitch covered the basics of PowerShell (blog), which was a real eye opener for. I was lucky to have Rob Farley sitting next to me giving me pointers and...

A great first day at TechEd 2008. Keynote I missed the keynote. And deliberately so. The reason being: I slept in. I had a late-ish night and wanted to ensure I was fresh for my session in the afternoon. So I had a full 8 hours sleep and great breakfast. Sadly, this meant missing the keynote, so I’ll be reading other accounts of that later.   Evolution of the Office System User Experience...

Just home from the TechEd 2008 Welcome party. It was great to catch up with a few friends. Here’s a couple of piccys. First up, the Breeze gang in the RFID boiler room. Scott Scovell (Breeze), Rahul Garg (Microsoft) and Mick Badran (Breeze). Scott and Mick are the guys making all the RFID palava happen. Here they are looking cool, calm, well rested and non-stressed. Pictured here are Mitch...