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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 when it comes to distributed transactions, but have had to dig deeper into them as of late, for example in preparation for the MARS webcast which I did with Glen Gordon (who I got to meet in person this week!) and also in yesterday’s conversations about DTC. Mentioning this, I suddenly found myself having a 20 minute private training session with Clemens Vasters, Rich Turner and Christian Weyer all teaching me about transaction resource managers. Just me. Three brilliant instructors, one student.
Clemens walked me through a transaction resource manager that he has written and I was introduced to a whole new flavor of programming model. I have been limited to thinking about transactions only in the scope (ummm, no pun intended) of database transactions. I always feel that I am pretty much representative of the bulk of developers out there, so surely this is not an uncommon misconception.
Kirk posted a bunch of TechEd pictures and as I was looking at them tonight, I was surprised, but happy, to see that he had captured the moment!
I think that we will soon all have our eyes opened up a little more about leveraging DTC to create transaction resource managers.
Also in the photo are Don Smith and Don Browning at the same table, and Robert Hurlbut (who also knows a thing or two about DTC) at the table behind us.
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Oh, now here’s a big shocker! Kate, who I love, admire, respect and trust, both as a professional and as a great human being, has been named RD of the Year by the MSDN Regional Director program. My understanding is that all of the other 120+ RDs around the world have a vote on this.
Here is a fantastic blog post all about Kate and this lovely honor.
And here is a post by Kate which is a great insight to what really makes her tick. 🙂
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Although I have had conversations in the past with Tim, Dr. Neil and Rob about speaking at VTdotNet this year, I have managed to (nearly) lock them in while at TechEd. Yahoo! Now I have the rest of the year covered (with December being our christmas party). I realize that I have got all of our INETA events piled into this half of the year!
| 06/13/05 : Sam Gentile (INETA event) |
| 07/11/05 : Kathleen Dollard (INETA event) |
| 08/08/05 : Julia Lerman |
| 09/19/05 : Neil Roodyn (97% sure) |
| 10/17/05 : Tim Ewald |
| 11/14/05 : Rob Howard (INETA event) |
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I was very lucky that Steele showed up as well as Michael Kaplan and a pair of folks (one developer, one marketing person) from Mobiforms who have all of their bets on a 3rd party tool they are working on for Avalon developers. I don’t think of myself as bleeding edge when I work in Whidbey because I look at people who are doing Indigo, or heck, the people who build (and keep pushing) the edge as bleeding edge. One thing I know is that it is all relative. I have more thoughts about last nights discussion and will write about that after I let them simmer a bit. But as Steele mentions, I think that the common theme was MOTIVATION. What motivates a developer or business to go to future products adn how do you motivate your developers to look ahead.
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I will write about what I have learned when I have time to absorb it all but I have seen great presentations by Steve Schwartz (overview of the variety of technologies to pick from for designing connected systems), Michele Leroux Bustamante (awesome look at doing ws-security with wse2 “beyond the wizards”), Mark Fussell (my *must see* .. WSE 3.0) and Tim Ewald (who I have locked in for Oct. 17th at VTdotNET 🙂 ) Tips & Tricks for implementing Web Services – so great that this is what he will be doing at my user group. I have never seen Tim present before and he is a TOP notch presenter. He has mastered the art of not flying through his content but making a statement and then pausing, letting you spend a moment thinking about what he has just said. I am going to try to be conscious of this when I present.
Although I have had many strings trying to pull me to skip TechEd today and go to Epcot Center (“if you can see only one thing while you are here….”), I will make a point of doing more sessions today.
http://www.AcehAid.org
xTras.Net is one of the most creative vendors of 3rd party developer tools out there and owner Mike Schinkel has come up with another great idea! Xtras is publishing the “How to Select” guides edited (and sometimes authored) by Mike Gunderloy. I saw the first in the new series which was How to Select PDF Components. I took a look, there a a long list of these to choose from and I could only think of one that I know (off the top of my head). When Mike showed this to me, I just thought what a GREAT idea! People are always looking for this type of advice which is a different spin than reading straight reviews.
So keep your eye out for these!
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There is another auction happening right now to benefit Aceh Aid at IDEP (now renamed to Aceh Recovery at IDEP). Twenty three TechEd speakers have put one hour blocks of their time on the auction block. The auction goes until Thursday, June 16th. We raised over $10,000 for this incredible organization in January and many lucky winning bidders got some great advice from some of the top consultants and brains in the industry. So whether you want to spend an hour asking Juval Lowy some tough architecture questions, learn about the future of communication with Don Box, get some of your tough VSTS questions answered by Richard Hundhausen or Joel Semeniuk, you can do that and lend some aid to help the people of Aceh Province Indonesia who still have a loooong way to recovering from the terrible disastrous Dec 26th tsunami (and consequent earthquakes).
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