13th
June
2006
I really like all the stuff I am hearing about BizTalk 2006R2 v.Next+1 and .Net framework 3.0. As if the product wasn’t good enough already. Integration with RFID and better EDI support should put this product clearly in the leader position in the next gartner quadrant. Its nice that MS has a clear product strategy with brokers unlike IBM that is the most confusing marketing snafu I have ever seen. The one area where they are still weak is in marketing HIS. It is such a strong product, but there is no clear message they they can communicate on how to use it. It almost requires a degree in rocket science.
Now I am off to the HIS Adapters session, or to the managing Windows Mobile in an enterprise environment (which sounds cooler but isn’t erally on my agenda).
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13th
June
2006
The logistics of literally feeding an army of geeks are amazing. This shows less than half of tables that have enough space to seat 10,000 people.
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13th
June
2006
Follow up below…
ComNet has been a staple of TechEd since TechEd ’96 (The beginning of the [MS] internet era). A means for attendees to communicate with each other and the outside world. Now the focus is more on the outside communication. Gone this year is internal email and a a list of attendees. This makes it much harder to hook up or find people you know at the conference. It is now literally like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I wish I knew why they stopped this, did it have something to do with Privacy?. Also gone are the MS Exchange public folders and discussions – Didn’t Microsoft like what they saw there?.
There is a new approach this year is distributing the computers all over the place. This is a really one GREAT new idea for TechEd. One of many clusters of 20 – 50 PC’s all around the convention center. Here is a shot of one such group. You can see they get plenty of use.
Follow-up…
- There is no overall list of attendees
- There is no way to find attendees from a specific company
- There is no way to find attendees from a specific geography unless they manually edited their profile.
- There is no ad hoc communication ability
As I think of other reasons they should bring back Exchange, I’ll update the list. In the meantime I did find an obscure link to a TechEd discussion forum here (requires login)
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12th
June
2006
Just left the TechEd store. They aren’t selling button down TechEd shirts this year. The staff told me it was because they didn’t see any demand for them. Still I have bought one each of the past 10 TechEd’s I have attended. Its a bit sad. What’s with all the skimping? Has the delay of Vista and changes internally caused corners to be cut everywhere at TechEd?
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12th
June
2006
I just left the BizTalk Hands-on lab. Pretty good content. The format wasn’t quite what I expected, but I did get some great content and a better understanding of how 2006 works. I think if it was a bit more interactive it would be even better.
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11th
June
2006
After registering I checked out this years bag. Its a canvas over the sholder job. I’ve been coming to TechEd since 1995 in New Orleans and only missed 2 years. This years Bag is the lowest quality I’ve ever seen.
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11th
June
2006
Well this year TerchEd was close. I drove to Boston Yesterday with the top down. Pics later.
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26th
January
2006
Yeah, right like I’ll find free time 
. Well anyway I saw this over at boing boing and followed the link to the source at the Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center which has a lot of other cool stuff. I can remember getting a kit back in the ’70s that was a model of the LEM from Apollo 11. I loved making models and was a diehard 1/35 WWII model maker. Making a model out of paper isn’t the easiest thing to do and I though it was pretty cool when I was 7. So I think this is something I might do with my kids although I don’t think that can relate to how new and exciting the whole moon landing thing was 40 years ago. In fact, I still think that from a shock and awe perspective nothing has ever exceeded watching the those Saturn 5 launches and waiting up untill midnight to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon with my parents in 1969. The only thing that has come close is watching it on IMAX. < Link>
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