I knew I'd be able to find an image of this shirt somewhere on the web when I saw someone wandering Tech Ed wearing it....

I've been hanging out at the DP booth at Tech Ed over the past few days. While there, I was very fortunate to meet Anil Nori who is one of the creators of EDM and EF and co-author on the first white paper on the topic, Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real . Here is a picture...

Next week is a big week in a traveling .NET Geek's life - Tech Ed (the North America edition). Tech Ed is in Los Angeles this year. I know I've been to two big MS events in that gigunda conference center before - perhaps they were both PDC events. In order to get to Tech Ed without digging into the mortgage...

A spontaneous website called NotAtPDC.com just popped up which is presenting Live Meetings for those of us who can't be at PDC and want that live interaction. PDC is also putting all of the sessions online on Channel 9. It took me a while to figure out how to find them so I've explained how to find the...

At TechEd last week, Steve Smith and I hosted a lively BOF called Going Solo. There's also a good list on ASPAdvice for continunig the conversation. Read more here... [A New DevLife post]...

TechEd was a whirlwind and I never had a chance to breathe, much less blog. I plan to catch up with a few posts but I wrote this one on the plane coming home before I passed out from exhaustion. I blew in on Tuesday afternoon rather than Sunday ( first delay , second delay ) and immediately did an Ask...

No, not *that* one (the oh-my-god-I-gotta-have-a-baby-before-it's-too-late, clock ...that stopped ticking years ago). My flight to Orlando for TechEd was a 6am flight. The concept of me getting up on time for that, much less even being awake at 6am makes my husband laugh his butt off. I got to bed last...

Yesterday at about this time, I was getting ready to head to the airport when I got a phone call resulting in my needing to delay my trip to Florida by a day. So I paid the $150 "change fee" and rescheduled my flight. Now I have to leave for the airport in 1/2 hour and went to check in online only to...

I'll be doing a fun Ask the Experts session at the Windows Vista booth Windows Vista at TechEd Developer 2008 “Ask the Experts” Website Graffiti?  Drawing and Annotation with Silverlight Tuesday June 3 rd 1:00-2:00 If you are curious how to add annotation to your website and want to...

In the past, there has always been this funny rule about representing Microsoft at TechEd that said "no open toe shoes". Yesterday we finally got the email about our attire and there was nothing about open toe shoes. However, I was not happy to see "khaki or black pants/skirt" only. (And they were clear...

And I haven't even had a chance to look at any presentations yet. Here's what's on my schedule so far. Monday morning - speaker training Monday afternoon - INETA User Group Leader Meeting (yay!) Monday evening - Speaker dinner Tuesday 1-2: Vista Ask the Experts Booth demoing Annotation in Silverlight...

I'm used to seeing TechEd ads on many of the sites that I go to since they are developer sites. So it took a few minutes for it to register when I saw the ad on the website of our local newspaper, the Burlington Free Press . I've been seeing them frequently for days now. This is a pretty small market...

Is Entity Framework right for your Applications? You'll probably want to answer this question before you start digging in deeply to learn this new data access platform that will be released very soon. Does it fit into my architecture? Will my DBA allow it? How will it play with my existing solutions...

About 3 years ago I moderated a session at PDC (or was it TechEd, I can't even remember :-)) called Going Solo . The room was literally overflowing into the hallway and it was a great discussion. Steve Smith and I are hoping to host a repeat at TechEd this year but we can't do it unless you vote for...

About three years ago, I noticed when perusing the speaker list for TechEd US (which is sorted alphabetically by first name) that there were a lot of Brians. Then I started counting and realized that there were more men named Brian speaking than there were women speaking. I couldn't help but notice on...

From INETA: TechEd 2008: Get Involved with Birds-of-a-Feather Contribute to the Community and Get Rewarded June 3-6 Orlando, FL Help Us Make the Birds-of-a-Feather Discussions a Success! As we said in the February newsletter , INETA is once again coordinating the Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions at...

Since I won't be at TechEd, I want to make sure Eric Sink is well-entertained! Of course, he's a pretty entertaining guy, so do yourself a favor and go visit him, get a cool t-shirt, get a chance to win a Wii and see some awesome developer tools like my favorite source control program . [The fine print...

I am 99% with Kate on this one . I've always wanted to go to New Orleans and was excited about the added aspect of TechEd 2007 having a major impact on the city's economy. The only thing Kate & I disagree on is that I'd like to see it in Burlington, VT. Of course, Burlington has no means of hosting...

In a way that only Carl could do! He waited until people had had a few drinks then handed them his camera and said "make a funny face and take apicture of yourself". We all know better than to trust Carl when it comes to someting like this, but everyone went along anyway and the result is hilarious!...

Here are a few posts I wrote on my DevLife blog but neglected to link to... Hangin' with Eric Sink Back to the Future: Tuesday at TechEd...

I satyed with Kate Gregory last night in the Airport Hilton where all of the TechEd speakers are staying. Luckily Kate and I are girls who know to where nice p.j.s when we travel! At about 4am what sounded like a really obnoxious alarm clock started very loudly buzzing in our room. It took a few seconds...

Microsoft has flat panel screens throughout the conference center with coverage of the World Cup for all of the international folks here. Most of them have 50-100 people planted in front of them throughout the day. I keep thinking of the money these people's bosses have paid for them to come here and...

I'm all ready to leave in the morning. I think my bag contains 1/3 clothes and 2/3 chocolate and vermont maple syrup (no, not for myself!). This is my 7th big MS conference and I have learned that (unless there is some spaghetti sauce accident) I end up wearing the same pants day after day and have even...

Jonathan Bruce from DataDirect has organized a data access geek meetup with ADO.NET Technical Lead Pablo Castro (who's name I must mention 10 times every time I do an ADO.NET talk!) and Bob Beauchemin on Tuesday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm. There is limited space at this event, so head over to his blog...

I've seen a few posts like Jeff , suggesting that you bring an extra bag in your suitcase to bring swag home. Heck TechEd is in my backyard this year and I'm driving. So if I were a swaghound - I would have the ability to bring home a lot of cubic yards of stuff! I'll definitely go trolling a little...

This could be an endless post - shout out to so many bloggers I met in person for the first time at TechEd. First and foremost is Amanda Murphy who I have known virtually for over a year and meeting her was like meeting a younger sister. Amanda runs a user group in St. Johns Newfoundland (practially...

I can't believe that I just found a picture on Kirk Allen Evan's blog documenting what had to be the BEST TechEd session this week. I was sitting at a cabana table this morning with some of my favorite German and North Carolinian guys, and the topic of transactions came up. I am admittedly pretty light...

TechEd is many things to many people. During the day and evening, the choices are overwhelming. During each time slot there are 20 standard technical presentations and nearly as many cabana talks. There are dozens of ... [A DevLife post] http://www.AcehAid.org...

Every year at TechEd it feels like a different experience to me - but always a great one! In addition to attending some WSE talks today, the highlight of the day was the BOFs at the end of the day. But first was the CodeZone launch party which was fun to attend. There were 30 BOFs last night! They have...

One of the more exciting things in a developer's life is going to a conference, especially a really big one. Microsoft's TechEd U.S. conference is starting on Monday and .. [A DevLife post]. http://www.AcehAid.org...

If you are not going to be at TechEd, and come on, there are millions of developers and only 10,000 or so attendees so there's a chance you aren't (although there aren't millions of developers reading my blog, so it does narrow the field a bit :-) ) - prepare yourself for a week of torture. Once at TechEd...

Here's one thing that always gets me at the big conferences. The people who go around the expo hall collecting as MUCH STUFF as they can with absolutely no regard for what they are even getting - just so long as it's free. I remember at TechEd Dallas we didn't have a proper banner for our wee INETA booth...

Last year, Rob Rohr created his TechEd session schedule in OneNote, but did it manually. This year he is dreaming up an automated way of creating his schedule with the OneNote API . He learned that the schedules will be out in RSS in mid-May so his plan will be doable. Sounds like something lots of people...