Well I am sitting in Orlando International Airport waiting for my flight home and thinking back on a great TechEd experience. It was a strange thing, I did not go to TechEd last year as the last company I had worked for had lost the Commnet contract for TechEd and I just was too busy with other customers. So it was strange to be back at TechEd as a normal attendee and not as crew. I always had fun as crew but in the end it was nice not having to work that many number of hours… at the show I did the same level of effort overall but this time it was at all the cool parties

The first night got it rolling, I hooked up with several RDs and other influencers and had a great dinner.

As you can see we all had fun . Thanks to an attendee from Japan Kazuo Furuyama for the picture we invited Kazuo over to have desert with us after we had attacked hour dinners.

I saw some great talks about Visual Studio Team Systems, I do think this product has the opportunity to fundamentally change MS development shops! If you have not seen much about VSTS go get some information about it soon!

To help you get exposed to VSTS Microsoft has released a new dvd that has a timed version of Visual PC with a copy of a single server installation of VSTS. I have not played with the VPC Image yet but this is a HUGE thing (in my humble opinion) now we have hope of having this type of early distribution of more great products so customers can play with things early. I have no idea how these dvds will be distributed but I am sure they will be readily available.

I was incredibly lucky and got asked by Richard Hundhousen to co-present with him on Thursday on web security issues. We spoke in one of the big rooms with about 1000 seats and the feed back was great… Thanks a gain Richard for letting be share the stage with you, I am just sorry we will not get to do something at TechEd Europe but my sons birthday is July 4^th and I want to start living the whole ME encouraged “life/work” balance.

I am now looking forward to PCD in LA where I will be helping coordinate some events for the local users groups and other interested developers. I am making sure that any developer who wants to come to the evening events can get in to the conference center, look back here for details.

Let me know what you thought of TechEd and what you would like to see at PDC. Now time to get on my plain.

[Edit I did not get this posted as soon as I would have liked but here it is finally]

Yes I doped my phone, it was me no one bump me i was not drunk nothing I am just clumsy! But when I call Cingular about this (or there insurance company) I got “ho we are sorry your phone is uninsurable we will gladly refund your insurance payments” bam that’s it, no sorry no we will make it right nothing! I am … whoops can say that here I try to keep this clean.

So I will switch over to my i-mate now as the SX66 (which I love) is now mostly useless

Any one know how to get one fixed?

I have been in-love with my new Siemens X66 Pocket PC Phone but yesterday

I doped it in Sea-Tac while watting to get on air plain. i have no clue how I am going to handle it of I have to stop using this phone… Any one want to start a fund to help out?

 

Well I hope the new skin is liked. I liked the old skin I had with the .Text implementation of this blog so I tried to implement it here with dasBlog and have found some interesting things about how dasBlog works. There seams to be a lot of iterations through the skinning code I want to next spend some time to see how it works with other skin implementations. Over all the code base has been quite good I know I have learned a few things.

Yep I have done it, made the switch from .Text to dasBlog. I was shocked at how easy it was, I found a tool called DotText2DasBlog and it helped a lot. I did have to drop all my old comments and by hand move the images but wow from what I had been looking at doing this was easy.

I will be changing the look and feel of this site to get back to my old clean layout but this works for now.

I have been getting a lot of comment spam on this blog, I hate spam of all types so I wanted to see what I could do. I can turn off comments to this blog but I like to let people leave me feedback in how wrong headed I can be some times. So off to Google I went and wow look what I found Fighting Dottext Blog Comment Spam. So it looks like there is hope. I don’t think I will do any thing about this now until I switch to das Blog but I am glad to see this is of serious concern for others as well.

Now playing: Andora feat. Marie Laure - Follow You (extended voice)

I am looking at moving this blog to a different platform most likely das blog. My buddy David McCarter has a das blog site up and running and that is why I am looking at das blog.

I am not sure when this was a lunched but today I found VBRun it is a Resource Center for Visual Basic 6.0. Some may say that this is strange but not so MS is still committed to supporting the developers that of plenty of valid reasons can’t move to .NET at this time. Do I think this is a good thing? Heck yes, I do think that moving to .NET is the best way to ensure organizations remain completive but there are some who will take more time then others or may move incrementally. I hope if you need this it helps.