TechEd 2006
I've been at TechEd 2006 all week and it has been a blast. Here are some of the highlights:
Party with Palermo: Got the opportunity to hang out with great friends including Jeff (of course), Noah Coad, Mark Dunn, Brendon Schwartz, Guy Barrette, Mario Cardinal, and Nick Landry. Eric Cote was absolutely hilarious - he called his SPOT watch a "woman repeller" and walked up to a complete stranger and asked her if she thought the watch was "sexy" (which elicited laughs all around the table). Later in the week (during the TechEd keynote address), Eric ran for the stage and got to hug Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe from the show "24"). Here is a photo of Eric (featured left) - take a look at the keynote (by clicking here). Got the opportunity to talk to Lorenzo Barbieri - had a long interesting chat with him on MSF. Watch the photos on Flickr right here.
Book Signing: On Tuesday, Noah Coad, Chris Bowen and I had the opportunity to do a book signing at the TechEd bookstore to promote our new book Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System on WROX Press/Wiley Publishing! We were joined by Sam Guckenheimer (signing his book "Software Engineering with Visual Studio 2005 Team System" on Addison-Wesley) and Richard Hundhausen (promoting his book "Working with Visual Studio Team System" by Microsoft Press). We had over 25 people show up - a great turnout. When I checked yesterday, we sold over 28 out of 40 books. A special thanks to Rob Caron and Jan Shanahan for helping setting up the event! Check out the photo gallery on Flickr.
Birds of a Feather - Switching to Team System: I had a good turnout for my Birds of a Feather talk on migrating to Team System. We discussed a variety of topics including version control, build, and even work items and testing. Chris Menegay and Barry Gervin had a very animated discussion about branching techniques. All in all, it turned out to be a great success.
The highlights can be found on my Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jldavid/
More to come...