Orlando 06, Day 0: Let The Games Begin!
I'm here in Orlando at one of my favorite hotels in the world, the Hyatt Grand Cypress. Here for the DevConnections shows, which include this week: Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, and for the first time, SharePoint Connections.
This should be a phenomenal show at a great location. What more could you ask for. I'll be blogging at least one day while onsite. In addition, expect blogs from speakers, attendees, and vendors, including:
- Me (Paul Litwin). In case you don't know I am the conference chair for Microsoft ASP.NET Connections and a speaker at that show. I am running an all-day hands-on precon tomorrow on ASP.NET 2.0 (my body will be on the east coast daylight savings time but my mind will be on pacific standard time--four hours later; should be fun). I'm doing two talks later in the week. One on the Data Controls and Data Source controls. And the other on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
- Julie Lerman. Julie is consultant living in Vermont (one of my favorite states in the union). Julie loves ASP.NET, tablet PCs, Web Services, ADO.NET, and lots more. She is a speaker at the ASP.NET and VS shows and lead a user group in her home state.
- Carl Franklin. Carl is the man behind .NET Rocks and Franklins.net. He loves music, media, Visual Basic, and the weird (besides VB, that is). Carl is the co-chair of Visual Studio Connections and does talks entitled "What is an object". He also plays a million instruments and has a band.
- Keith Smith. a Microsoftie and speaker at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. Keith will be speaking on Master Pages, Themes, and Navigation and using Visual Studio Team System.
- Mark Miller will be speaking at VS Connections. So what you say? Well, Mark's session "will be completely driven by the audience." Mark will also be manning (personning?) his Developer Express booth where he will be showing off his very cool products, including Code Rush. By the way, don't miss the photo on Mark's blog site at http://www.doitwith.net/2006/03/31/ExtendingVisualStudioLive.aspx. Scroll down and prepare to ROFL.
- Bill Simser. I've never met Bill but I understand he is a SharePoint guru and will be speaking at the event. From reading his blog I can tell that Bill is as crazy as the rest of us.
Okay. that's it for now. I need to turn my attention to preparing for tomorrow's workshop and maybe even getting a little sleep.
Anybody else who will be onsite and blogging please send the URL to your blog and cross-link back to this blog.
Later,
Paul